Far more entertaining than it has any right to be: Newton's Pendulum (Gangnam Style)
https://youtu.be/YB7KUGdP7wI
via https://www.metafilter.com/195343/Newtons-cradle-Gangnam-style
A #cube inside a #dodecahedron
The vertices of the cube touch 8 of the dodecahedron’s vertices, and each of its edges lies on a face of the dodecahedron.
I had not realized that buying colourful curtains would turn my apartment into a Cornell box (http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/box/history.html).
Time for another edition of: Song Stuck In Head Please Help
https://austramusic.bandcamp.com/track/beat-and-the-pulse
A whole Wikipedia article singing the praises of a certain 1D root-finding algorithm, which was published in 2020, and has only 3 citations. Is this a new avenue of self-promotion by the authors?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITP_method
They're the roots of the polynomial \(\lambda^3 - (a^2 + b^2 + c^2)\lambda - 2 a b c\), but I'm not sure that helps.
Thinking about the eigenmatrices of the Hessian of the 3x3 determinant, after http://www.tkim.graphics/DYNAMIC_DEFORMABLES/. Kind of a bummer that the eigenvalues of [[0, c, b], [c, 0, a], [b, a, 0]] are so messy. Is there at least a neat argument why they have to be?
Wait shit we accidentally made a meme?? https://mattoverby.net/pages/admmpd_abstract.html https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/horse-plinko
Assistant professor of computer science at IIT Delhi.
I'm just here for the TeX.