Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “math”

One day Alan Eliasen read a fart joke and got so mad he invented a programming language. 20 years later Frink is one of the best special purpose languages for dealing with units. “But why do we need a language just for dealing with units?” Glad you asked! Intro to Units A unit is the physical property a number represents, like distance or time. We almost always are talking about SI units, or Système international.

Floating Point Visually Explained

fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/index.html

Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math. | Quanta Magazine

quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clues-come-from-a-century-old-approach-to-math-20200407/

Math Symbols Explained with Python

amitness.com/2019/08/math-for-programmers/

An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms

jezzamon.com/fourier/

Gamedev Tutorial: Trigonometry Basics – Sine & Cosine | Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou | 周明倫

allenchou.net/2019/08/trigonometry-basics-sine-cosine/

[latexpage] Here is the Chinese translation of this post.本文之中文翻譯在此 Overview Trigonometry is a very essential building block to a huge portion of game math.

Information Theory for Intelligent People

tuvalu.santafe.edu/~simon/it.pdf

Omni Calculator

omnicalculator.com/

Omni Calculator solves 541 problems anywhere from finance and business to health. It’s so fast and easy you won’t want to do the math again!

Desperately seeking squircles – Figma Design

blog.figma.com/desperately-seeking-squircles-8eb8db9b654b

This is a story about one Figma engineer’s hunt for the perfect answer to a programming challenge. In a famous 1972 interview, Charles Eames answered a short…

Programming with Escher

mapio.github.io/programming-with-escher/

This notebook is a collection of preliminary notes about a "code camp" (or a series of lectures) aimed at young students inspired by the fascinating Functional Geometry paper of Peter Henderson.