With my job, I often need to replicate projects from a template based on Angular Material. When I do that, one of the first things that I usually need to change is the color scheme. Angular Material’s color scheme is defined by two palettes: primary and accent. These two palettes define a range of colors … Read more
It’s been a while since the last post, but this was worth it. Sometimes, our infinite quest to discover…well, everything…brings us material that is both fascinating and interesting for everyone. This usually means images instead of numbers, but this time we’re talking about 3D CG awesomeness! Our casting for the day features Jupiter and Juno, … Read more
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center released an amazing video to celebrate 20 years of the SOHO mission. It contains a “best of” of observations made by the spacecraft, spanning from huge solar storms to comet flybys. I’ll let the video talk. Happy anniversary SOHO!
Generating pseudo random codes is usually a trivial task. However, coupon codes should have two features that make them computationally complex: A third optional feature would be readability. This means that the final user should not be thinking “is this 0 or O?“. I found the problem intriguing and decided to make my personal implementation of a … Read more
How many interactions happen every second on the Internet? You can check the numbers anywhere on the web, OR you can go to http://onesecond.designly.com/. Web designer/ dev Steven Lewis created a fantastic website along the lines of “If the moon were only 1 pixel”. Scroll your way through thousands of Google searches and don’t forget to … Read more
NASA just announced another groundbreaking discovery regarding the history of Mars. Data from the MAVEN spacecraft revealed how Mars loses 100 grams of its atmosphere every second. Why? solar winds, and obviously solar storms, which increase the loss rate even more. As explained in the official article from NASA: [quote]The solar wind is a stream … Read more
NASA just released this astonishing video of the Sun. It features images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), enhanced by NASA’s artists. They applied colour based on the wavelength detected by the SDO, in a process that takes 10 hours to produce one minute of video material. More information can be found in the video description on YouTube.
Disney Research found a different mathematical approach to solve the extremely complex equations necessary to render realistic fabrics. As you can see from the video released with the official paper, the resulting simulation is extremely accurate. Like almost every algorithm, it’s not a generic solution to every cloth rendering problem. It performs better on large problems (more … Read more
There was a time in human history when no living creature had ever seen the hidden face of our beloved satellite. As you know, earthlings can only admire one side of the Moon. The other side can only be seen from space. For millennia the laws of physics stood in the way of our quest … Read more