Hack of the day (or last couple days)

09/18/2018

Playing around with my LSystem language, I wanted to fix up the leaves on my generated trees. Unfortunately, I am using Helix3D for rendering (this was work related so I didn't use my own rendering code). Adding in transparent objects isn't easy so I wanted to make a simple program that would take an image with transparency and generate a mesh that matches the shape of the object. Thus, I started to write this small app over the weekend. Still have a bit of work to do, but at this point I am able to generate a mesh (first doing contour extraction and then using Delaunay triangulation of the extracted path). Should have the final version out sometime this week.

L-Systems

09/12/2018

So I've been toying around with this idea in ML that involves a L-System. So I hacked together a super simple app that lets you build an L-System using a simple recursive descent parser for a tiny language I made up. I love working on these little languages, especially when married with computer graphics. Below is a screen shot from my simple app I hacked together yesterday.

Great ML Cheat Sheet

09/12/2018

Found this the other day. Awesome: https://ml-cheatsheet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

 Here is another cheat sheet: https://becominghuman.ai/cheat-sheets-for-ai-neural-networks-machine-learning-deep-learning-big-data-678c51b4b463

Raw strings

08/27/2018

Who in their right mind would come up with the syntax for raw strings in C++?!?

I recently had to use the raw string syntax (defining a #define from solution variable). I mean, seriously WTF:
     R"("blahblah\blah")"

Compare this to C#:

     @"blahblah\blah"

C++ is becoming a mess of a language.