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From: Todd Veldhuizen (tveldhui_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-19 07:05:14
It was named after the card game "Blitz" which I used to play as a kid
(also known as "Dutch Blitz"). The name of that card game might come from
"blitz" in the sense of lightning as Ekkehard suggests.. At one point I
heard that some people thought "Blitz++" was an allusion to blitzkrieg,
which was definitely not my intention. It didn't help that the blitz logo
at that time (a wave equation simulation) looked a bit like an explosion
because of the "hot colour" scheme. I changed the colours to "cool blue"
colours because of that. :)
Cheers
Todd
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Ekkehard Görlach wrote:
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> Hi Brian,
>
> perhaps it is related to the german word for lightning as calculations
> done with Blitz++ run with lightning speed ...
>
> Ekkehard
>
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> "Brian L. Chase" <brian_at_[hidden]> writes:
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> > Is BLITZ++ an acronym? I wrote a final report for an SBIR and was asked to
> > define it in the glossary section.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brian Chase
> > VSI/Pro Product Manager
> > Verari Systems Software, Inc.
> > brian_at_[hidden] www.verari.com
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