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Friday, November 28, 2014
Branching poisson disk algorithm
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My program outputs a distribution like this: Every dot is at least a distance of 10 pixels from any other. The way it works is to start ...
Sunday, November 23, 2014
recursively moving around the unit circle with constant angle to the origin
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Starting with solving this general formula for two vectors [x,y] and [a,b]: The above says the dot product between them equals to c and t...
Friday, November 21, 2014
wave interpolation (with natural number harmonics of different amplitudes)
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I noticed that it's possible to find solutiond for waves that are 0 at the endpoints of the interval and that pass through a certain num...
Sunday, November 9, 2014
fanless turbo compressor
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An idea I had for an alternative to a turbo compressor with fan blades like they usually have. I thought because the center of gravity is so...
yellow on an RGB computer screen vs from the spectrum
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The bottom graph shows an overlay of the yellow you get from mixing pure red and green light and what you would get from a light sourc...
Symbol gas cryptography
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First two computers are initialized to the same configuration of the symbol gas... Every symbol is given an initial position and an initi...
Thursday, November 6, 2014
4r's genetic problem solving
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The problem I developed this technique for is to fill a square with 10 points so that the minimum distance between any selection of two poin...
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