Part IV: Visualization and Motion Control
This is an unfinished draft for a book I wrote back in 1999 on the topic of motion control. This is the final and minimal part, just as it was written and with… well, “gaps” some might call it (I told...
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This is the full table of contents for an unfinished of a book I wrote back in 1999 on the topic of motion control. Contents Introduction by the author Foreword Part I: Introduction to Motion Control...
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Here’s an idea I’ve been entertaining for some time now and that I would like to see realized: A word navigator. I know that in the field of computational linguistics there’s several implementation of...
View ArticleOMG! It’s so cute!! LOL …or How I Got Anti-Aliased Fonts
I seriously don’t know how I could lived this long and used my Gentoo installation without enabling anti-alias for the rendering of fonts. For a long time I have admired Konqueror (or KHTML to be...
View ArticleLilyPond
I just want to give a shout-out to the software, LilyPond, that I used to produce the notation in yesterdays post.
View ArticlePython FTGL Bindings
I’ve just released PyFTGL which makes it possible to take advantage of FreeType and FTGL to render text in OpenGL program using TrueType, Type 1 or OpenType fonts. PyFTGL wraps the functionality of...
View ArticleSkype on Linux
I’ve got Skype to work on my Gentoo Linux box by setting the library path by force: $> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/ skype
View ArticleThe Smirking Gnu
I have been using GNU/Linux as my main desktop OS since 2002, but today was the first time I’ve seen “Linux” being explicitly mentioned in the system requirements for a regular run-of-the-mill hardware...
View ArticleThe Cupertino Effect In Action
Was recently affected by the Cupertino effect: “bounce of ranging monkeys” instead of “bunch of raging monkeys” and “historical impotence” in place of “historical importance”.
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