Resurrecting some old code

#c++ #opengl #generative #spherical

#ThisWeeksFiddler, 20260213
This week the #puzzle is: Can You Get the Rover Home? #trigonometry #spherical #3d #animation #desmos3d A rover is dropped down on a spherical planet with a radius of 1000 miles. The rover has been programmed with a very specific set of motions: – First, it moves straight forward a fixed distance s, and stops.– […]

https://stuff.ommadawn.dk/2026/02/17/thisweeksfiddler-20260213/

#ThisWeeksFiddler, 20260213

This week the #puzzle is: Can You Get the Rover Home? #trigonometry #spherical #3d #animation #desmos3d A rover is dropped down on a spherical planet with a radius of 1000 miles. The rover has been…

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Spherical Sunset #timelapse #westportal #360 #spherical #video 360 degree immersive spherical timelapse shot from West Portal, San Francisco of sunset over the Pacific.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/spherical-sunset

Spherical Sunset

360 degree immersive spherical timelapse shot from West Portal, San Francisco of sunset over the Pacific.

I Thought He Came With You

»The Paradise Concept« (Audio CD)

Ein Musik-Projekt eines Künstlerfreundes und »Ton Steine Scherben«-Fans aus Hamburg, Jakob den 18.

Viel Spaß!

#Music #Art #Vocal #Ambient #Instrumental #Spherical #Underground #Dualism #Yinyang #Om #Endzeit #Symbolism #Atheism #Meditation #Spirituality #Enlightenment #Rebirth #Goa #India #Hamburg #Germany #QWP

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2017 Total Solar Eclipse from Madras, OR #photo #timelapse #spherical #eclipse #solar #360 #video Timelapse video, composite photo and spherical 360 video of totality from the 2017 total solar eclipse in Madras, Oregon.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/2017-total-solar-eclipse-from-madras-or

2017 Total Solar Eclipse from Madras, OR

Timelapse video, composite photo and spherical 360 video of totality from the 2017 total solar eclipse in Madras, Oregon.

I Thought He Came With You

It is well known that the "spherical cow" is an overly aggressive approximation. Hence:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00506

#spherical #cow #approximation

Higher multipoles of the cow

The spherical cow approximation is widely used in the literature, but is rarely justified. Here, I propose several schemes for extending the spherical cow approximation to a full multipole expansion, in which the spherical cow is simply the first term. This allows for the computation of bovine potentials and interactions beyond spherical symmetry, and also provides a scheme for defining the geometry of the cow itself at higher multipole moments. This is especially important for the treatment of physical processes that are suppressed by spherical symmetry, such as the spindown of a rotating cow due to the emission of gravitational waves. I demonstrate the computation of multipole coefficients for a benchmark cow, and illustrate the applicability of the multipolar cow to several important problems.

arXiv.org