Stuck on a tube platform. Which reminds me of the Chinese sound engineer I shared a lab with years ago. He had scale model of a tube station in the basement wired up with speakers and mics because the standard sound equations didn’t work for long spaces - they assumed a roughly square room. Through scale experiments, he worked out the equations for long spaces. And that is why announcements on tube platforms are now understandable instead of being an echoey mess.
@chthonicionic Hahaha. My secret weapon is phoning. They will get up, come to where I am, roll their eyes at me and say “what?!” rather than answer the phone to a voice call 😆
@aldroid eldest just discovered shadertoy and various demoscene videos and he’s enjoying using the maths he’s learning for a-level. Anywhere nice I can point him for tips?
@aldroid thanks! I’ve passed those on - let’s see what it sparks. I do like that gpus are powerful enough that all this works on his school-issued MS surface without breaking a sweat.
Having lunch on Holloway Road during an Arsenal Tottenham derby - this is before the match. All the pavement tables are occupied by people looking into the restaurant (where the big projection screen is). It’s a bit odd having 30 people watch you eat…
Shopping delivery arrived gently marinating in a whole bottle of maple syrup that had smashed.
Everything everywhere is now sticky, including the unfortunate driver who has left a trail of footprints heading back to his van. Young guy, totally mortified.
Always a fun day when one of the visualisation teams comes to you because their project files won’t open on the workstations with “only” 256GB of ram. Tempted to say, “that should be enough for anybody” but I’m not sure they will get the reference.
Anyway, they’ve got one of the 0.5TB renderfarm machines to play with for a bit…