Links

More or less related list of pinterest / bookmarks.

Academic: Blog:
  • Loup Vaillant. My brother's homepage with various articles around programming languages and bad coding habits.
  • Íñigo Quílez. Co-creator of shader toy and does astounding work based on distance fields/implicit surfaces.
  • Johnathon Selstad Sublucid Geometry awesome webgl widgets to present some simple but powerful physic and linear algebra tricks.
  • Demo Fox pretty cool graphics blog from Alan Wolfe's and Javascript widgets (curve fitting and interpolation).
Blog, rigging:

  • geometry-processing-js javascript wrapper for Eigen and mind blowing geometry processing magic on your phone.
  • Shader toy on-line shaders (search for ray marching and distance field)

  • Computer graphics research software This is the university of Toronto software list. You'll find a lot of computer graphics related software/libraries/pieces of codes.
  • StarLab source code and interface to deform meshes with arap (as rigid as possible) and compute geodesic distance using the heat diffusion method (only need linear systems to be solved). Check out their videos at the bottom of the page.

And many others: [OpenMesh]   [CGAL]   [CinoLib]   [Geometry central] [GEL]


  • Maxima is a Computer Algebra System (CAS). A fancy word to say it can solve math equation like you do, i.e, type in "factor(2*x + 2*y)" and it outputs $2(x+y)$ or "solve(x*3-2)" and it will tell you $ x = \frac{2}{3} $! It understands math formula (a.k.a algebraic expressions) and can differentiate, integrate, solve equations and much more. Get started with tutorial videos or documentation
  • OBS studio Video capture on Windows/Linux/Mac and open source (also used for streaming).
  • Screen To Gif Capture screen to a gif or video Windows (similar to Windows handy snipping tool)
  • DaVinci Resolve Video editing more user friendly than adobe (IMHO) and with a free version (no time limit as of today)
  • Meld Simple yet powerful diff and merge tool (Windows / Linux)
  • Beyond Compare another diff tool, this is a paid software though, I would not recommend it if it wasn't so fast and packed with useful features.
  • Rapid Environment Editor Editing environment variables under Windows is a pain (no text file and a non resizable window. Really???) this software is by far the best way to edit those environment variables (Linux users, please, I can hear your chuckles...)
  • Paste into a file: save as a file the image currently in your clipboard! (for instance using Windows' "snipping tool") this also adds a shortcut in your context menu. (github project)

(Online)

  • Jupyter originally for python this is a C++ command line interpreter! (based of clang) with markdown comments!
  • godbolt.org online compilers with assembler output for those performancezzz (best online compiler IMHO)
    • cpp.sh online gcc compiler.
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    • rextester.com online compilers (C++, gcc, msvc, clang and many more) useful to compare compatibility.
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  • cdecl.org translates C gibberish like this int (*(*foo)(void ))[3] to plain English (In this case it outputs: "declare foo as pointer to function (void) returning pointer to array 3 of int")
  • TryHLSL online HLSL compilation with disassembly.
  • Shadered Online Shader (HLSL/GLSL) visualization and debugging.
  • regex101.com Interactive design of regular expressions.
  • Finite Difference Calculator Given the order and sample points find the finite difference stencil. (see also FinDiff
  • MathWay a Computer Algebra System to solve equations, integrals etc. with step by step development.
  • Graphing/plotting tools:
    Proprietary:
    - Desmos (Browser Plugin to export/import your graph to .json file)
    - geogebra
    Open Source:
    - [ graph.tk (LGPL) ]
    Minimalist:
    - [fooplot] [GraphToy] [GraphToy++]

  • Z-type Literally how I learned how to blind type on a keyboard. it's surprisingly easy to consistently play it 10mns a day compared to other boring programs.


Last update: 10/2011

 
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Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized
that like most books, it had too many words. The plot was the same one that
all James Bond books have: An evil person tries to blow up the world, but
James Bond kills him and his henchmen and makes love to several attractive
women. There, that's it: 24 words. But the guy who wrote the book took
*thousands* of words to say it.
Or consider "The Brothers Karamazov", by the famous Russian alcoholic
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's about these two brothers who kill their father.
Or maybe only one of them kills the father. It's impossible to tell because
what they mostly do is talk for nearly a thousand pages. If all Russians talk
as much as the Karamazovs did, I don't see how they found time to become a
major world power.
I'm told that Dostoyevsky wrote "The Brothers Karamazov" to raise
the question of whether there is a God. So why didn't he just come right
out and say: "Is there a God? It sure beats the heck out of me."
Other famous works could easily have been summarized in a few words:

* "Moby Dick" -- Don't mess around with large whales because they symbolize
nature and will kill you.
* "A Tale of Two Cities" -- French people are crazy.
-- Dave Barry