I found the book to be esoteric and not intended for the general public, although the book does sell as one. Or it might be just me who hasn’t dwelled into the sections of theology and anthropology during library visits resulting in this book flying over my head most of the time. Apart from the challenging vocabulary of Hitchens’ English prowess, the sheer amount of historical facts thrown around in every other sentence threw me off. But, for a more accustomed atheist who is itching for a debate, this book might be the silver bullet whole magazine of silver bullets.
I recently came across this tumblr post by Mathhombre in which he had shared some beautiful plots he generated using Geogebra. Since it has been so long since I’ve tried anything with Julia, I thought of recreating some of those plots using Julia. Hence, this post.
I had previously created a post on how to setup and create a simple generative image using OpenFrameworks library.
In this blogpost, I will capture what I did to generate the following video.
The above animation is generated by rotation of a set of ellipses along an eccentric axis. Each of this ellipses have different angular velocities which remains constant throughout the animation. I will explain further below.
I’ve been interesting in generative coding or creative coding for a long time spending my time in the different alleys of subreddits. So, I finally decided to venture into this using the opensource C++ toolkit called OpenFrameworks. This post will have a short guide on installing the toolkit and my first code written using it.
“It’s not the end that matters but the journey it takes”. This statement has never been truer than in the book “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak. Because, when death starts telling the story, it begins from where it all ends. And, yes, it’s narrated by none other than death; that dark figure with black hood and a scythe (though (s)he claims (s)he never carries a scythe). And when death tells you a story, you really have to listen! (quoted right out of book).
Going by the popularity, I picked the book “Midnight Library” by Matt Haig to be my next read. But it wasn’t before long that I realised that this is not the kind of book I am into. I haven’t read “The Alchemist” or “The monk who sold his Ferrari”. I had been suggested those books by other people but my mind, trained by Harry Potter and Hunger Games, had never been able to stick to more than a few pages. So, I had expected the fate of this book to be the same. But, there was a feeling about this book that made me keep going; a feeling I haven’t felt towards any book (except maybe a few academic ones) – Anger.
The human hip bone is a complex bone structure that functions as the major supporting structure for weight as well as effective transmission of load between the upper and lower body. It has spongy trabecular bones sandwiched in a thin corticular bone shell. Prior works on topology optimization of hip bone have been either limited by solid design resulting in heavy structure or by homogeneity of lattice cells which are not allowed to vary spatially. This work presents the multi-scale optimization of the human hip bone’s topology and microstructure considering the mechanical loads developed during the gait cycle. This may lead to lightweight stiff construction that fits the functional needs of the hip bone.
Its been a long time since I’ve read a novel and I feel that “All the light we cannot see” by Anthony Doerrr is a perfect book to get back through. Its the story of two souls - Marie Laure, an young girl from paris and Werner, a boy born in the german mines. Its a story that oscillates across space and time as it funnels down towards a singularity. But, its also the story that makes one pause and ponder - think about the beauty in moments as they occur. Doerr enthralls us by transporting us back by a century, to a place where war happened - hot and cold. The climax managed to capture me so much that it made me borrow 20 minutes out of my regular sleep schedule. I just couldn’t manage to keep it down. On the whole, I’d rate this book a pleasant read and definitely rereadable! Let me write down why I feel so. Note that this review is rated “yes” for spoilers but I’ll try to keep it to minimum.
Today, there has been some heavy lifting! User defined types, dynamic memory, pointers and all its associated magics! Definitely will be revisiting soon. Also, want to acknowledge that I’m finding the method of logging everything here in blog to be too daunting. If I try to make it useful, the post needs to be lengthy but that eats up the time on learning itself. I’m gonna switch back to the 100 Days of Code github repo for daily tracking for now. If at all a need rises, I’ll try to make it into a separate useful blog post rather than a log. Also, I’ll make a log here when I’m done with this fortran course which is due in two weeks.
