Geography trivia: A raindrop falling in Erie Co. PA will travel 2,147 miles to the Gulf of Mexico rather than 15 miles to Lake Erie. More in top comment. Source: https://t.co/wMHs8iqWXXpic.twitter.com/HqqWYcdw83
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) May 29, 2021
Excited to share a new #SIGGRAPH2021 paper with @markgillesie81 and Boris Springborn that is a pretty big breakthrough in mesh parameterization: https://t.co/M0EZGuIGfL
In short: no matter how awful your mesh is, we compute beautiful high-quality texture coordinates.
Data science meets sleuthing: Terrific story about work by applied mathematician David Earn and colleagues, looking back at the Great Plague of London in 1665 and the invasion of the Black Death in the 1300s. Earn and team found clever ways to chart these long-ago epidemics. https://t.co/WWs7c1kf8y
Guess what? In 2D electrostatics, the saddles of the electric potential from 3 equal point charges are the foci of the biggest ellipse contained in the triangle of the charges. pic.twitter.com/f9SYYm3SLH
This is not a beautiful woven tapestry. It is not a painting. It is the most detailed image of a human cell to date, obtained by radiography, nuclear magnetic resonance and cryoelectron microscopy. pic.twitter.com/CXzI4Fm2Bc
Caroline of Anspach! Studied with Leibniz, became Princess of Wales, facilitated the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence on the nature of space, and was an early advocate of immunization, after overseeing medical trials. All before becoming Queen of England.https://t.co/FThlqLaoGk