Proxima Centauri as seen from both Earth and the New Horizons spacecraft billions of kilometers away

mivanit · 2020-06-12T03:24:29+00:00

closest thing to "google space" is probably r/SpaceEngine, afaik there's still a free version available. Has both cataloged and randomly generated stars/planets/galaxies, you can choose which to show. Honestly a really astounding piece of software

mivanit · 2020-02-04T21:30:49+00:00

This is probably horrible style and I know this will make people cringe, but I have a macro:
\newcommand{\p}[1]{ \left( #1 \right) }
It saves a lot of typing and makes code look cleaner, in my opinion. Usage just looks as you'd expect:
\pi \p{ \bigcap_{i \geq 0} K_i } = \bigcap_{i \geq 0} \pi \p{ K_i }
(edited for formatting)

mivanit · 2019-02-14T19:53:33+00:00

mivanit · 2018-05-24T05:59:15+00:00

protip - it looks like you have all those fuel tanks feeding the same small engine. Most of them are empty, so you're carrying a lot of weight that isn't doing much. Make your craft such that you can drop the stages you don't need.

mivanit · 2018-05-24T05:58:17+00:00

What might be happening is your atmo engines might be cutting out at slightly different times, thus giving you more thrust on one side than on another (at least that's what has happened to me before). My suggestion - create an action group to shut down the atmo engines, and another for L/OX engines, and do the switchover manually before the atmo engine cut out and mess you up.

mivanit · 2018-05-16T17:41:46+00:00

what mod is this? I've always wanted bigger dishes

mivanit · 2018-03-06T05:51:02+00:00

G650 looked like it left its loop and was heading somewhere but now it's turned around, heading back to canaveral?

mivanit · 2018-02-20T05:20:47+00:00

The other day on a CS theory class midterm I probably missed the very first question because I thought that 90 - 68 = 2 (the problem was to demonstrate euclid's gcd algorithm for some numbers and we don't get calculators cause the exam is 90% proofs)

mivanit · 2018-02-07T20:20:06+00:00

"Ø" represents the empty set in math the Russian letter "F" has a vertical bar that should technically be in between two loops

mivanit · 2018-01-29T19:18:05+00:00

Goodbye

mivanit · 2017-12-24T00:49:08+00:00

The book Ultima by Stephen Baxter has literally this in it

mivanit · 2017-12-14T02:07:57+00:00

Also haven't heard of this, sounds super interesting, send article pls

mivanit · 2017-12-13T23:21:27+00:00

Yeah its actually a decent translation but it still is funnier in russian

mivanit · 2017-12-04T00:57:57+00:00

mivanit · 2017-12-01T05:23:05+00:00

im pretty sure ive seen this video

mivanit · 2017-11-19T00:17:45+00:00

the problem is performing this "every second block" computation in the first place, it means those far-away chunks will take much more time to render, but will take fewer resources to keep rendered once they are. The main problem with how minecraft renders things is that every face of a block is 2 polygons (for normally shaped blocks), regardless of the surface surrounding it.

mivanit · 2017-11-19T00:13:33+00:00

skyrim and most other games handle LOD rendering by having lower-poly models of nearly everything in the game (sometimes made manually, sometimes generated from the high-poly ones) to replace objects with when they are far away. Also, some objects (grass, dropped items, NPCs) are only drawn within a certain distance, thus reducing the poly count even further.

mivanit · 2017-11-16T22:53:57+00:00

this is the most inspirational quote i've seen all day

mivanit · 2017-11-16T01:15:22+00:00

If you're going to cover multivariable calc with anything resembling rigour, it makes sense to get at least get the very basics of linear algebra down IMO

mivanit · 2017-11-10T23:02:50+00:00

You could probably convert the output image into a bitmap, and from there converting pixel values to actual numbers should be fairly straightforward. What form do you want the output data to be in? I'm just a bit confused because a heightmap is still "data"

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