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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Glossary of acronyms and commercial jargon -- WANTED
Keywords: glossary, acronyms, jargon, wanted
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Date: 11 Nov 89 09:50:10 GMT
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In article <1476@aber-cs.UUCP> jjp@cs.aber.ac.uk (Jan Pinkava) writes:
>Is there a graphics-speak glossary already available (or posted here) ?
>If not, will somebody/somebodies provide one (as a regular posting?) ?
>(is this one of the commonly asked questions ?)

It isn't a regular posting because you're the first person I've seen ask this.
You could write down all the terms you're unfamiliar with and post a request
for them which might get gobs of supplies. The best way to do it would be to
mail questions to a couple people who offer to answer them. (you saw this
coming: If you send me mail about something I'll try to answer it.)

Just posting a glossary would be interesting, but I don't think anybody has one
plus it would be rather big. Comp.Graphics is a pretty general group anyway,
you see lots of side-related topics here, and we already are starting to build
a commonly asked questions post. But a list of terms could get pretty large.

>Jan Pinkava                         ARPA: jjp%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
>Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth         UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!jjp
>Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK  INET: jjp@cs.aber.ac.uk

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu