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Has the story perhaps influenced the choice of the name for the application program? |
Has the story perhaps influenced the choice of the name for the application program? |
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* Yes, I'm aware. It seemed to be a nice hook into the concept, as the title is familiar to many mathematicians and computer scientists. -- [[User:Ping|Ping]] 18:16, 25 March 2007 (EDT) |
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If so, perhaps it could be reworded in the page so as clearly to note a distinction of text in a bitmap image from text as characters. |
If so, perhaps it could be reworded in the page so as clearly to note a distinction of text in a bitmap image from text as characters. |
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* Yes, that's exactly what was intended. Thanks for the suggestion; I'll clarify. That's not to say that text can't be implemented as well -- it's merely that, to start, screen grabs give the most bang for the buck. May i ask who you are, by the way? It's the usual convention to sign notes on a talk page with four tildes ("<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>", which are automatically replaced with your name and date). -- [[User:Ping|Ping]] 18:16, 25 March 2007 (EDT) |
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Revision as of 22:16, 25 March 2007
Are you aware of the existing use of the name Flatland?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
Has the story perhaps influenced the choice of the name for the application program?
- Yes, I'm aware. It seemed to be a nice hook into the concept, as the title is familiar to many mathematicians and computer scientists. -- Ping 18:16, 25 March 2007 (EDT)
In Step 1a. Screen grabs would it be correct to reword the phrase "whatever you've written in the text editor" so as to become "a bitmap image of whatever you've written in the text editor, up to the size of a screenful"? That is, does it work like Microsoft PrintScreen on a PC? Likewise would it be correct to reword the phrase "a bitmap image of anything you've seen on a web page, up to the size of a screenful"?
If so, perhaps it could be reworded in the page so as clearly to note a distinction of text in a bitmap image from text as characters.
- Yes, that's exactly what was intended. Thanks for the suggestion; I'll clarify. That's not to say that text can't be implemented as well -- it's merely that, to start, screen grabs give the most bang for the buck. May i ask who you are, by the way? It's the usual convention to sign notes on a talk page with four tildes ("~~~~", which are automatically replaced with your name and date). -- Ping 18:16, 25 March 2007 (EDT)