"I must have had a poor education as I only ever used sine.cosine and tangent to figure out whether the imaginary tree would fall on  our house, how on earth it relates to colours and lights and materials I have  no idea, but it would be nice to have some vague idea.

I can see where Khai is coming from, in one respect, i think and these aren't his words but mine.....Why do i need a degree in math to add a wood material to a particular model if i dont want to use a texture, or if i do want to use a texture why do i need a degree in math to make it look "professional".

Why did it have to become so complicated that we all feel like idiots becuase we aren't Stephen Hawkins IQ levels."

 

LMAO!  I sooo feel you on this.  NORMALLY - I consider myself to be a fairly intelligent person.  I read books on physics, (though I can't do the math myself personally, I can at least comprehend).  I know who Garrett Lisi is.  When Boson Higgs was recently discovered I actually knew how important that was.  

But that all goes to the wayside the moment I open these forums.  They have the magical ability to make me feel like a complete bumbling idiot in five minutes or less - usually.

As much as I appreciate BagginsBill, usually when he explains something I feel like he's trying to teach me to walk when I barely know how to hold up my head.

I decided recently that I wanted to understand what the math functions were in the materials room.  Though I knew I would never understand how to apply them. I still wanted to at least know what the heck they stood for.  

My childhood was complicated and through not much of my own choices I didn't make it past pre - algebra.  But I stayed in Honors English so I'll hang my hat on that.  Still my 15 year old son is a little bit of a math guru himself - going into Honors Algebra 2 in 9th grade.  So I brought him in to see if he knew what those math funtions were.  He rattled them all off the top of his  head (mid summer mind you) and proceeded to create diagrams for me so that I could understand what cosign was.

If BB hadn't already made me feel like an imbecile, my 15 year old accomplished it in about 15 minutes.  Through no fault of their own, of course.  

I guess the point in this post is really that I relate #1 and then that there is some disconnect between those who comprehend and those that don't and I do imagine that there is a fair amount of people who just simply get tired of feeling stupid.  I'm persistant and don't really care too much about what others think - so I guess I'm lucky in that way. 

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