[FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube
Edward Angel
angel at cs.unm.edu
Wed May 13 23:18:38 EDT 2020
Also even if they are not like bow ties, quadrilaterals need not be flat.
Ed
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> On May 13, 2020, at 9:16 PM, Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
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> some quads are not... think boomarang-like... I think there is a technical term for that class of quad... also think if a "bowtie", also technically a quad but potentially having "negative area".
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> On 5/13/20 9:13 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And quadralaterals aren’t convex? I don’t get it.
>>
>> Nicholas Thompson
>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>> Clark University
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>> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Angel Edward
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 7:40 PM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> <mailto:friam at redfish.com>
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube
>>
>> Because triangles are convex they are guaranteed to be rendered correctly. Every modern graphics system whether hardware or software is based on using triangles as the basic element.
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>>
>> Ed Angel
>>
>> Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
>> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
>>
>> 1017 Sierra Pinon
>> Santa Fe, NM 87501
>> 505-984-0136 (home) edward.angel at gmail.com <mailto:edward.angel at gmail.com>
>> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel>
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>> On May 13, 2020, at 7:28 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com <mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> I'm not Marcus but in finite element analysis the discretization of a 2 dimensional region is always done with triangles. It's much more flexible than rectangular grids, to oversimplify.
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>> Frank
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>> Frank C. Wimberly
>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
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>> On Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:13 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Marcus,
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>> Can you explain why the basic unit is a triangle?
>>
>> Any Peircean would LOVE it.
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>> n
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>> Nicholas Thompson
>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>> Clark University
>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com>
>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/>
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>>
>> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com>> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 6:00 PM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at redfish.com>>
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube
>>
>> Check out that WaPost article for the state-of-the-art. (The new Unreal Engine.)
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>> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com>> on behalf of Angel Edward <edward.angel at gmail.com <mailto:edward.angel at gmail.com>>
>> Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at redfish.com>>
>> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 4:58 PM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at redfish.com>>
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube
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>> I vaguely remember plot 3d. No one renders today the way it did. Cray was less than a PC with a decent graphics card.
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>> Ed
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>>
>> Ed Angel
>>
>> Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
>> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
>>
>> 1017 Sierra Pinon
>> Santa Fe, NM 87501
>> 505-984-0136 (home) edward.angel at gmail.com <mailto:edward.angel at gmail.com>
>> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel>
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>> On May 13, 2020, at 5:51 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com <mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Let me revise that a little bit. There was a visualization of the rider's view of a roller coaster ride that ran on a Cray supercomputer. The purpose was to demonstrate the capability and speed of a Lisp-based 3D renderer called Plot-3D or P3D or something similar. Do you know what I'm talking about, Ed?
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>> Frank C. Wimberly
>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>
>> 505 670-9918
>> Santa Fe, NM
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>> On Wed, May 13, 2020, 5:31 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Thanks, Frank.
>>
>> NIck
>>
>> Nicholas Thompson
>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>> Clark University
>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com>
>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/>
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>> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com>> On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 3:35 PM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at redfish.com>>
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube
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>> You should take it seriously but I'm biased. I don't think PSC let's its supercomputers be used for eye candy. They didn't when I worked there and they were accountable to NSF.
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>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
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>> 505 670-9918
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>> On Wed, May 13, 2020, 3:26 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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