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Aug. 12th, 2005 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katsmeatIt's odd how tasks that seem nightmarish usually turn out to be easy. OK, I spend my time developing Matlab code for modelling waves. Mostly in 2 dimensions. For about 9 months, I've been thinking I ought to have a crack at 3D but kept putting it off. When my supervisor made the suggetsion/issued the command last week I just swore to myself. It turned out to take about a day and a half. And that included throwing in the code to allow reflective surfaces. All in all, I'm feeling pretty silly.
See the pretty picture behind the cut.
An instantaneous snap-shot of the model - horizontal slices through a three-dimensional space. There's a sine wave radiating out from a central point source and whacking into a reflective wall. As I'm a pathetic person with no friends currently in town and nothing better to do over the weekend, I should have the movie done by Monday.
I'm now wondering about running 4D models. It should be straightforward, aside from taking 256 times as long to run on the computer. < Checks wikipedia > and the fourth dimension equivalents of left/right up/down are ana and kata. So at least I know what to call my variables.
Of all the attempts to invent a new holiday as an alternative to Christmas, this has got to be the coolest!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtonmas
Richard Stallman Says Don't buy Harry Potter books.
He's pissed off about the injunction over the books that were accidentally sold early inb Canada. From a freedom of information POV, he's got a point. But sorry, RMS, it's a bit late. < eeek >
Perhaps he should check out the fan scene. Does fan-fic count as open source literature? Perhaps I should GPL my attempts?
Speaking of which, my latest is now complete. Please review nicely.
What is disturbing, is that I appear to be doing the Dorothy L Sayers thing and falling for my own main character. If that's not an indication I should get out more, then nothing is.
See the pretty picture behind the cut.
An instantaneous snap-shot of the model - horizontal slices through a three-dimensional space. There's a sine wave radiating out from a central point source and whacking into a reflective wall. As I'm a pathetic person with no friends currently in town and nothing better to do over the weekend, I should have the movie done by Monday.
I'm now wondering about running 4D models. It should be straightforward, aside from taking 256 times as long to run on the computer. < Checks wikipedia > and the fourth dimension equivalents of left/right up/down are ana and kata. So at least I know what to call my variables.
Of all the attempts to invent a new holiday as an alternative to Christmas, this has got to be the coolest!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtonmas
Richard Stallman Says Don't buy Harry Potter books.
He's pissed off about the injunction over the books that were accidentally sold early inb Canada. From a freedom of information POV, he's got a point. But sorry, RMS, it's a bit late. < eeek >
Perhaps he should check out the fan scene. Does fan-fic count as open source literature? Perhaps I should GPL my attempts?
Speaking of which, my latest is now complete. Please review nicely.
What is disturbing, is that I appear to be doing the Dorothy L Sayers thing and falling for my own main character. If that's not an indication I should get out more, then nothing is.
