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Hexapod Spider Robot
How cool is that?! I want to build one 5 feet tall and ride it around town.
Miscellaneous
Building 3D models on the fly
Want perfect lighting and super detailed realism in your next 3D game? Build a scale model of your world, then run it through a program like this!
The algorithm builds a point cloud (a whole science to itself) and then a Delaunay tetrahedralization over many frames. In normal speak, the comptuer recognizes spots on the model even when the model moves. Those spots are used to figure out the shape of the surfaces of the model. As the model moves the shapes are refined.
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STS-129 Launch Movie
STS-129 Ascent Video Highlights from mike interbartolo on Vimeo.
Extremely cool. Hey, NASA! You know the relative position of every camera. Why can’t you build a real time 3D model of the launch vehicle, the pad, their positions relative to each other, and then broadcast the whole show in 3D in Google Earth?
Tutorials
Creating HTML select easily in PHP
Creating a &;t;select> in PHP can be a mess, if done naively. This should make life a little easier.
$str="<select name='fries_with_that'>
<option value='true'>Yes</option>
<option value='false'>No</option>
</select>";
foreach($customer as $person_id=>$details) {
$fries_with_that=$details['fries_with_that'];
$str=str_replace("value='$fries_with_that'","value='$fries_with_that' selected",$str);
echo str_replace("name='fries_with_that'","name='fries_with_that_$person_id'",$str);
}
