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vilya on Feb 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++

I've recently had to deal with some code that did this for work (and also used operator* for dot product) and it made the equations incredibly difficult to read. Please don't make the mistake of doing this in your own code.

CyberDildonics on Feb 5, 2017 [–]

Using operator* for the dot product is straight up wrong, since multiplication between two vectors is well defined and used all the time.

vilya on Feb 7, 2017 | [–]

Exactly.

Same with %: since we're talking about a number-like object, there's a clear and expected meaning for it and that is NOT cross product.

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