Re: Motion on interval flavors
On 2012-07-09 09:58:56 -0500, Nate Hayes wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >Now, what is the status of Kaucher/modal intervals in current
> >processors?
>
> As I speak, we have a team of electrical engineers working on development of
> a Kaucher/modal interval ASIC co-processor. It will be used in the computer
> graphics and CAD industry for reasons I just mentioned to George. We expect
> it may be released to the field by the end of next year.
If this is the only implementation, I wonder whether there is a
need for a standard for Kaucher/modal intervals. At least, I think
this is too early.
The notion of flavors may still be useful to allow non-standard and
future standard extensions.
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