Posts about topics that I don’t actually have any experience in. The Dunning-Kruger effect is in full force.
Thanks to omnipresent reasons, I thought it fitting to draw a nice schematic of a nuclear power plant, despite complete lack of experience in any related area. But my one, I decided, would be less abstract: the components, albeit simplified, would be arranged as they would in a power plant. Except 2D. That means a […]
read moreFor the most part, everything to do with orbits is a consequence of one simple rule: Newton’s law of universal gravitation. It simply states that all masses are attracted by a force that increases with mass and decreases faster with distance. General relativity describes certain physical observations much more accurately, but the differences only become […]
read moreIf you’ve even only touched upon anything involving computers and colour, you’re sure to have encountered some way of modelling it. There’s Red Green Blue, Hue Saturation Lightness, L*ightness a*green-redness b*blue-yellowness (okay, that doesn’t work so well) and even Y luma In-phase Quadrature, amongst quite a few others. All specify a colour with three values, […]
read moreDisclaimer: I have never actually implemented a Mandelbrot set renderer nor benchmarked any of what I’m about to say. What follows is a mathematical approach, given that rendering the Mandelbrot set is inherently mathematical. Background information Skip this if you already know the details of the Mandelbrot set, unless you want to read what I […]
read moreIn a puzzle game like Portal, you can’t have a puzzle that makes use of knowledge the player doesn’t have, or they’ll probably never work it out. However, it is a puzzle game, so surely it would be best to make learning a new mechanic a puzzle in itself. These are good steps to properly […]
read moreIt’s a common problem, where one person will say something and another will hear the same words, but each will think the words mean something different. Sometimes they might even hear different things, leading to further miscommunication. The problem isn’t the speaker, the listener, or even their communication skills. It’s human language. (I’ll concede that […]
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