About three hours ago, I decided I’d read about OpenGL and experimented enough with it to attempt loading a heightfield and visualizing it as a collection of flat shaded triangles. Obviously, the first step is to find heightfields to work with; since...

It sucks that I’m the closest thing to a Mathematica expert that I know personally. When I have Matlab questions, there are a few people who have a decent chance of being able to help me, but I’m pretty much on my own with Mathematica (not counting the...

I’ve been struggling with something I think all researchers struggle with at some point: keeping track of interesting papers. Some folk use citation tracking websites like citeulike, some use software like Mendeley, JabRef, or Papers, some go the...

The libnoise site has made it onto my short list of awesome websites. I’ve been obsessed with terrain generation for a long while now, and this is the best resource I’ve come across on generating landscapes using Perlin noise. The site is actually...

I haven’t had much to talk about lately– the Probabilistic Graphical Models course is eating up my time like crazy: I haven’t had time to do anything but that and prepare my lectures and homeworks for the Matlab/Mathematica course– but I have been...