As a kid I would watch surveyors at their tripods as they carefully calibrated their instruments. Today I learned more about their instruments so I could get make a topographical map of my front yard in Sketchup.
After learning how to use SketchUp, I wanted to learn more about rendering 3D using Javascript. three.js is one of the most popular 3D libraries for the browser/WebGL. Read on to learn the basics
@coolbutuseless has a great blog on solving the “Eight Queens” problem using R. To challenge myself in translating “R” code, I created an Observable notebook. See the final product here; read on to learn how I did it.
Some resources for learning Sketchup, (3D modeling software available for free online), to model my landscaping job for the house across the street.
Observable Notebooks* support Promise syntax, and the newer ECMAScript async/await syntax. In this post, I explore more comparisons of their syntax, and some pros/cons of each.