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Unsolved: the Square Peg Problem - ThatsMaths
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An Unsolved Problem Involving the Icosahedron and the Dodecahedron, and Their Circumscribed Spheres | RobertLovesPi.net
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| | This is apparently a problem, posed by Gregory Galperin, which went unsolved at the Bay Area Math Olympiad in 2005. I haven't solved it yet, but I'm going to try, as I work on this blog-post. My 2010 source is a paper about Zome which may be read, as a .pdf, atbact.mathcircles.org/files/Summer2010/zomes-6-2010.pdf.The problem involves a...
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Marching Cubes, Explained Using Marching Squares | Of Shaders & Triangles
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| | [AI summary] A detailed explanation of Marching Squares and Marching Cubes algorithms for generating contours and 3D meshes from implicit functions.
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Cutting Up Curved Things - Cam Pedersen
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| | Your GPU doesn't know what a cylinder is. It knows triangles! That's it. Three points, maybe a color. The entire vocabulary of graphics hardware fits on an inde
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The Fedora Linux starter pack: everything you need for a smooth experience :: ./techtipsy
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| I like Fedora Linux. It's the Linux distro that stopped my habit of distro-hopping. Big deal? Ooh, big deal! It's stable in day-to-day use, ships with up-to-date software, and the software selection is adequate out of the box. It also ships with a fresh Linux kernel version1, resulting in a good experience even on modern hardware. I've been happily using it for about 4 years at this point, both on personal and work computers.