From "Shape Fitting with Outliers" by Sariel Har-Peled and Yusu Wang, SIAM J. Computing 33(2): 269–285, 2004.
DEFINITION 3.2. A set of hyperplanes I is a δ-sheaf if there exists a vertical segment s of length δ such that all the hyperplanes in I stab s, The vertical segment s is the axis of I. [Footnote: We will refer to it as the axis of evil when appropriate.]
They don't actually refer to it as the "axis of evil", though. Apparently, it was never appropriate.
what I am impressed by is that there is a wikipedia entry for Axis of Evil.
Posted by: | June 29, 2004 at 04:49 PM
I especially like the incorrect spelling of vertial in the last sentence.
Posted by: b | July 01, 2004 at 02:17 PM