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- - Another way to frame this idea could be Finite element method for everyone. FEM is "the mesh discretization of a continuous domain into a set of discrete sub-domains, usually called elements."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method Finite element method
+ - Another way to frame this idea could be an attempt to come up with a simple grammar to allow the techniques of finite element method/discrete element method to be more widely applied. FEM is "the mesh discretization of a continuous domain into a set of discrete sub-domains, usually called elements."
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method finite element method
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_element_method discrete element method
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+ - Another way to frame this idea could be Finite element method for everyone. FEM is "the mesh discretization of a continuous domain into a set of discrete sub-domains, usually called elements."
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method Finite element method
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- - Bruce provided detailed feedback on all parts of the post, and pointed me to related topics like covering and tesselation and tiling.
+ - Bruce provided detailed feedback on all parts of the post, and pointed me to related topics like covering and tesselation and tiling. He pointed out the key question is where there is "_a thinking advantage_" to thinking in spheres.
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- - A reader points out the relevance of Leibniz' La Monadologie (1714). I had overlooked that work by Leibniz before. I now have read this translation. Extremely interesting.
+ - A reader points out the relevance of Leibniz' La Monadologie (1714). I had overlooked that work by Leibniz before. I now have read this translation. Extremely interesting. The same reader points out potential connection to Tim Morton's hyperobjects.
+ https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/hyperobjects-by-timothy-morton hyperobjects
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- - Bruce provided detailed feedback on all parts of the post, and pointed out related topics like covering and tesselation.
+ - Bruce provided detailed feedback on all parts of the post, and pointed me to related topics like covering and tesselation and tiling.
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_tilings_in_hyperbolic_plane tiling
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- - Bruce provided detailed feedback on all parts of the post, and pointed out related topics like covering.
+ - Bruce provided detailed feedback on all parts of the post, and pointed out related topics like covering and tesselation.
+ https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/606668/what-are-the-conditions-for-a-polygon-to-be-tessellated tesselation
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- I haven't yet been able to use only spheres to model electromagnetic fields accurately, but it feels doable.
+ I haven't yet been able to use only spheres to model electromagnetic fields accurately, but it feels doable.^newton
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+ ^newton It also seems like what I'm talking about is reviving Newton's corpuscular theory of light.
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpuscular_theory_of_light corpuscular theory of light
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- - Bruce provided detailed helpful feedback, and pointed out related topics like covering.
+ - Bruce provided detailed feedback on all parts of the post, and pointed out related topics like covering.
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+ - Bruce provided detailed helpful feedback, and pointed out related topics like covering.
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering_space covering
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+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model DOM