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::::Well, it could be argued that right and left have no meaning without an observer outside the plane, which makes the display code rather more important. In which case you should counter-argue that the "wrong" chirality is merely observing the graph from underneath. But I'm not trying to be a troublemaker. It's just that I was trained in chemistry, where the wrong stereoisomer can have results like Thalidamide. Or if you're lucky, you just end up up with the difference between spearmint flavor and caraway flavor, which are stereoisomers. So maybe I'm just overly sensitive on the subject. Chemists don't deal in abstractions, so they aren't generally taught to say "That wasn't the focus of my task." <tt>:-)</tt>