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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The Least Perceptive Literary Critic
The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax. A
most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to
give a public reading of his latest poem.
Pope, the leading poet of his day, was greatly surprised when Lord
Halifax stopped him four or five times and said, "I beg your pardon, Mr.
Pope, but there is something in that passage that does not quite please me."
Pope was rendered speechless, as this fine critic suggested sizeable
and unwise emendations to his latest masterpiece. "Be so good as to mark
the place and consider at your leisure. I'm sure you can give it a better
turn."
After the reading, a good friend of Lord Halifax, a certain Dr.
Garth, took the stunned Pope to one side. "There is no need to touch the
lines," he said. "All you need do is leave them just as they are, call on
Lord Halifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observation
on those passages, and then read them to him as altered. I have known him
much longer than you have, and will be answerable for the event."
Pope took his advice, called on Lord Halifax and read the poem
exactly as it was before. His unique critical faculties had lost none of
their edge. "Ay", he commented, "now they are perfectly right. Nothing can
be better."
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"