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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: topological data
Message-ID: <2853@eos.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 89 22:18:48 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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Do you mean topographic or topological?

The former tends to cost some money since it is based on the real world
and real world people have had to digitize it.  The latter gets generated
by mathematicians during some of their studies.  You can't always be too sure.

Another gross generalization from

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