The Wikipedia notation doesn't make intuitive sense to me because, say you wanted to raise the point at α³ but keep all other control points stationary. You just couldn't do it, every point with α would increase in value

After a cursory search, I found this article, where the author presents basically the same equation: blog.demofox.org/2019/12/07/b...
Only here, they've replaced the combinations of coefficients with subscripted constants like you might expect of values that you're supposed to plug in yourself.

Worth noting that the picture and accompanying desc. were written by one guy in 2003, with no edits since other than for formatting. At one point, this is what the entire page for Bezier Triangle looked like. I think this is a case of bad notation, and possibly a not necessarily correct equation.

Tux paint?? Before mspaint???

It seemed like a joke but I thought maybe you got got because the alt text read as sincere

It's AI generated.

Another is the way his chest is bare between his vest, even though he's got T shirt sleeves on

I hope this is part of the joke, but that is also AI generated. There's lots of little details but the most obvious is the sign in the background says "MCDLIDANI"

I hate ads in my current games but I love ads in my old games

Insane. It's not even the potentially abstract danger of "giving a corporation your face," it's the very real and immediate danger of "giving anyone and everyone your face"

They let people use someone else's face in their own videos?? Nightmare world

Every game should have an easy mode that you can pay $19.99 USD to unlock

I'm sure a faculty member could bring this up as a technicality on why the rule is a bad idea, but I think in practice the response would be, "Well of course we don't mean the cis students." On a human level, someone must be aware of how asinine that is, in order to leave a note like that.

It's interesting to me that that's the only part crossed out, with "Can call by preferred name" written along the bottom. Calling people by the wrong name to their faces is a step too far for these people, but erasing them is easy enough when they can keep the concept of a trans person abstract.

My favorite Halloween movie! I watch it every year

I love the string on the elephant trunk, that's such a perfect little detail

Counterpoint: I once did this to a PS2 copy of GTA3 and brought it from a state where it wouldn't load at all, to one where everything except the ground geometry would load after about a minute