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Name: Anonymous 2006-11-07 0:39

A vertex is a point in space.  A vector is a direction, but has no position.

Is there a formal mathematical object that contains both a vertex and a vector?  Lines aren't what I have in mind (those are defined by two vertices).  Right now in my program I'm just calling this construct a "bone" but that's a stupid word for it... is there a more formal terminology for a [Vertex, Vector] tuple?  "Directional point"?  Nah...

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-07 1:41

does your object have magnitude?  I can only imagine what you mean if you remove the magnitude part and only have direction.  Or perhaps it is a vector with two or more magnitudes, one magnitude for each of the dimensions of the space that it occupies.

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