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Andrew Bromage
Interestingly, the Hairy Ball Theorem ("you can't comb a hairy ball smooth") has a 3D analogue, fo…
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d7samurai
I see what you mean. You are thinking in terms of having only one pole - which is like having a ba…
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popcorn
ooooooops I missed the B (joke not intended)
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khahem
If you want to try alternative topology, you can find a few games here (Torus Games, Curved Spaces…
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Joel Davis
This is, of course, all related to the most giggle-inducing name in all of mathematics, the ""
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David Owens II
AH! That's what I was missing. Yes, the -L flag worked. I've updated the blog entry and my script:…
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Casey Muratori
But I don't think that is actually true in topological terms. If you imagine taking our tile map …
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
Oh, sorry I missed that. But blog entry doesn't explain what is wrong with redirects. Have you tri…
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David Owens II
As mentioned in the blog entry, curl doesn't handle the redirect's correctly. At least, it wasn't …
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
Try curl, AFAIK it is available on OSX by default:
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David Owens II
I didn't try wget as it's not installed by default on OS X. I'll give it a try later. I don't thin…
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Kyle Partridge
I've been able to just wget from the download button link. Does that link change?
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d7samurai
Well, in a proper spherical topology, you can't get rid of the singularity, but a tile map that is…
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Todd W
Thanks, kitango. I'll check it out.
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Casey Muratori
I'll have to defer to a better topologer to answer :) I think the answer is "it depends on how yo…
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Ale
this is a good! book
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Iker Murga
Ouch, that hurt Ikkirlsth!
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d7samurai
EDIT: Added illustration to make the concept easier to grasp: Wouldn't a point in explaining the d…
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Todd W
Any recommendations on books that are particularly useful for learning the maths mentioned in last…
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Krzysiek
Wiki article worth reading:
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Jari Komppa
My favorite link regarding all sorts of bit twiddling tricks: Among other things there's algorith…
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BlueWolf
From what I could tell, it's because they are smaller (meaning less memory needed to store them an…
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Livet Ersomen Strøm
what a mindfuck.. i need to see my therapist after that hour. I think I need to put a bullet to my…
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KRB
Also known as the "quick picture summary of day 41"
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edward
@mmozeiko thank you very much for your explanation! this is along the lines of my best possible gu…
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Mustafa Al-Attar
You have a problem, so you find a skull, and give it to a smoker, and he gives you a solution.
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
Those are symbols from (most likely) Windows-1252 encoding of memory bytes. On the left side you c…
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edward
Hi there all, I apologize ahead of time if this question is misplaced here on the forum or downrig…
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Randy Gaul
Casey[/quote] Join in the discussion you goofball!
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Tribuadore
An example of a garage that is not suitable for game development
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