Tag Archives: Python

Ray Tracer : in the weeds

I’ve spent the past week fighting minor math errors in my ray tracer. In order to confirm that my surface normals were being calculated correctly, I added boxes (axis aligned only at this point) as an additional primitive type. That … Continue reading

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Sidereal clock circuit — progress!

I’ve been kicking around the idea of making an accurate sidereal clock circuit for years now. I’ve discussed it all before, but the basic idea is that I want to be able to create a circuit that oscillates at 32857.715Hz … Continue reading

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Insane URL-fu

I had an interesting use case. I needed to get some data out of a database, and then return the result in a graph. So far, the thing is not so interesting. However, there were a few twists. First twist, … Continue reading

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