In Praise of Visualization

Posted on Sat 11 May 2024 in Software • Tagged with simulation, physics, project-management

A little investment into building a GUI for live visualizations and control provides huge improvements in iteration speed.

I recently came across the excellent video Coding Adventure: Simulating Fluids wonderfully explained by Sebastian Lague. The video walks through the steps to build a simple smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation from nothing …


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Communicating with the past and the future

Posted on Fri 10 May 2024 in Software • Tagged with documentation, project-management

Originally written May 2022.

Introduction

In his dialogue Phaedrus, Plato has unflattering things to say about the development of writing, arguing among other things that it weakens the memory:

And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared …


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