[HN Gopher] Foams Made Out of Felt
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       Foams Made Out of Felt
        
       Author : 082349872349872
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2024-12-01 11:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | Maxion wrote:
       | I thought that was going to be about making foam out of felted
       | wool, somehow.
        
       | kevingadd wrote:
       | This use of dimensionality is unfamiliar to me. When I hear "a
       | bunch of discrete points" to me that says most likely 2 or 3
       | dimensions - if we're talking about cloth, probably 2 unless the
       | cloth is really thick. But they refer to that as 0-dimensional.
       | I'm guessing the dimensions here are referring to the...
       | coordinate space you would use to address locations within it?
       | And when it's just a bunch of discrete points there's no real
       | coordinate space, not until you connect them with some sort of
       | volume or space?
        
         | 082349872349872 wrote:
         | > _the... coordinate space you would use to address locations
         | within it_
         | 
         | yes!
         | 
         | (if you like thinking along these lines, you may also be
         | interested in exploring
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_coordinate_system )
        
       | tantalor wrote:
       | I'd start with "A foam is a mathematical object..."
        
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