Box has a dimension-agnostic flavor to me (if not to all geometers out there). I believe the orthodox term would be (axis-aligned) parallelotope, some people also use hyperrectangle. Box is shorter and implies the pairwise orthogonality of the sides, if not the axis- alignment. Personally I'd prefer to keep box for most common use, with a clear definition in the docs, and polytope (most general) and parallelopiped (2^n sides not necessarily orthogonal) for the more exotic uses... My two cents... Sent from my iPhone On Oct 15, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Jeff Flinn <TriumphSprint2000@hotmail.com> wrote:
- Also, while most names are 2D-centric, "box" is 3D-centric. This seems fairly inconsistent. Or maybe it's just me and box is actually dimension agnostic. box doesn't sound less dimension agnostic than anything else to me, but this can be discussed...
Convex Hull?
Jeff
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