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From: Vaughan Pratt <pratt@cs.stanford.edu>
To: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Illusion and Forthrightness in Wikipedia
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:42:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OvDlk-0000FE-Vo@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <730oimakP9232S03.1284336675@web03.cms.usa.net>

Incidentally the following postscript program produces the trefoil at

http://boole.stanford.edu/Trefoil.jpg

=====clip here========
%!PS

/step {
      .01 exch 1 1 1 setrgbcolor 0 setlinewidth
      {/t exch def
       /r 4 3 t mul cos sub def
          2 t mul sin r mul t sin 3 mul sub
          2 t mul cos r mul t cos 3 mul add
       lineto currentpoint stroke moveto
       t 360 div 1 1 sethsbcolor 2 setlinewidth} for
} def

36 36 scale 8.5 11 translate
0  0 moveto  0 360 step
1 -1 moveto 60  80 step

showpage
=====clip here=======


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-13  0:11 Fred E.J. Linton
2010-09-13  6:23 ` Vaughan Pratt
2010-09-13  8:42 ` Vaughan Pratt [this message]
2010-09-13 18:32 ` Mike Stay
2010-09-13 19:02 ` Timothy Porter
2010-09-14 16:54   ` Vaughan Pratt
2010-09-13 22:02 ` Toby Bartels
2010-09-14  7:46 John Baez
2010-09-18  6:58 Fred E.J. Linton
2010-09-19 22:07 ` Vaughan Pratt
     [not found] <474oiRg647312S02.1284793135@web02.cms.usa.net>
2010-09-18  7:26 ` John Baez
2010-09-19 23:38 Fred E.J. Linton

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