> I'm not a mathematician, and don't pretend to be, but this discussion has
> tickled something on some intuitive level with me- can't say whether this
> is good or bad or indifferent, but for some reason I think there is some
> merit in this 3_D (x-y-z) analysis, and, yes, I am starting to see some
> actual relation/meaning to the vector stuff.
>
> Feel free to supply some pretty pictures soon, I react even better to
> those....
Actually all those dry equations came about as a result of trying to create
a visual representation of the movement to memes through a field of memtic
vectors.
I thought I could sit down and create a simulation (2-D) of a group of
memetic vectors, each taking memes (expressed as colors and intensities)
from the cells next to them and replicating them to other cells. But when
I ran the program it didn't match up with the emperical data; it always
turnned into a uniform middle grey very quickly. So I went back to the
formulas I was using and looked for possible ways of making my model
represent reality better. By putting in random values for Rx and Vx the
model came out closer, but it still needs work.
(And of course, once I got into the mathmatics of it I competely forgot
about going back and trying to model it again visually.)
-Prof. Tim