Re: Syntax clarity

[Peter J. <pet...@gm...>]

2010/12/14 Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>:
> On 14.12.2010 08:05, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
>> One might wonder then, Why "splot" as opposed to, say, "plot3" or
>> "plot3d"?  What does the "s" mean?
>
> Why would it have to mean anything?  The 'pm' in 'pm3d' also doesn't
> mean much of anything.  It's just the initials of its author.
>

I've always thought that it meant "palette mapped 3d".

Péter Juhász