wheeee!

[miriam_e]

I have had a wonderful time! I muddled around yesterday finding lots of great information online, then caught up on my Scientific American reading a little bit (I've been neglecting it lately), and finally had a short nap in the early evening.

When I awoke I got stuck into a problem for work that has been bothering me. I started by learning about some aspects of controlling VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) from Javascript that I previously was very unsure of. Mostly I had an idea that the peculiarly named slerp( ) function might be able to help in my quest (it does a spherical linear interpolation, which just means it finds an angle between 2 angles). But there were some other things I needed to learn more about too.

Not being able to find much about these functions in any of my books, other than the most skimpy descriptions, I searched thru my hundreds of sample files. (Whenever I find a VRML file that does something even slightly interesting I save it to my folder full of examples.) And whaddaya know -- there was a delightfully intricate program using that and a whole lot of the functions I was wanting to understand. There is nothing like having a working example in your hands to tease apart... and that is what I did.

It is now7:30am -- I worked on this pretty-much all night! I feel fantastic!!
I have learned enormous amounts! And learning really is my greatest joy.

I am gonna get a bit of sleep now... if my grins and silly dances and giggles permit me to...

Wow! Life is wonderful!