Category: Science
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Understanding Geographical Coordinates
This series introduces the concept of trilateration. This technique can be applied to a wide range of problems, from indoor localisation to earthquake detection. This first post provides a general introduction to the concept of geographical coordinates, and how they can be effectively manipulated. The second post in the series, Positioning and Trilateration, will cover the actual…
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Fractals 101: The Mandelbrot Set
This is the second part of Fractals 101, a series of tutorial dedicated to fractals. This post will investigate two popular fractals: the Mandelbrot set and its 3D cousin, the Mandelbulb.
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Fractals 101
This new series of tutorials will explain what fractals are, why they are so important and what we can learn from them. This first lesson is a gentle introduction to the concept of iterated fractals and their dimension. Since fractals naturally occur in nature, this series will be particularly interesting to all artists and game developers who want to create…
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Evolutionary Computation – Part 1
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This series of tutorial is about evolutionary computation: what it is, how it works and how to implement it in your projects and games. At the end of this series you’ll be able to harness the power of evolution to find the solution to problems you have no idea how to solve. As a toy example, this tutorial will show…
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Exoplanetary Orrery V
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in ScienceAn exoplanet is a planet that orbits another star other than the Sun; since 1988, approximately 2000 of them have been confirmed. This post, inspired by Ethan Kruse‘s Kepler Orrery IV, visualises and animates exoplanets, together with their habitable zones. The data comes from the NASA Exoplanet Archive and it only includes the confirmed exoplanets with known…