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I saw this on The Best of YouTube podcast today. A "Flex" ladder. What an idiotic concept. Besides folding up for storage, having a ladder bend in the middle is like thumbing your nose at the devil, or daring the high school bully to punch you in the face. You're practically begging for trouble. Notice how after the sales guy find out what I'm talking about he still tries his darndest to sell the thing.
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Recent Featured Top 10 - The Best in Angel, Demon, and Fantasy Art
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THE top 10 recent angel & demon and fantasy art on deviantArt - courtesy of yours truly. All of these pieces absolutely rock. That is fact. So these are my picks for the most awesome angel and fantasy picks that I found while browsing around deviantArt. You'll find all of these picks in my deviantart favorites list. Each pick is by a different artist. Most of the artists here are not the "famous" ones you'll see around deviant art. No, these are fresh, new and creative pieces whose brilliance some have recognized and some which have been passed over. Since that would be a travesty, I hereby take it upon myself to make THE ONE LIST TO RULE THEM ALL. So it is written. So let it be…
How can you create artwork digitally that mimics how a photo might look if the subject is set in an environment with objects in the foreground and background? That is indeed the question! I wrote this tutorial to hopefully give you some answers. For this tutorial I’ll start with a custom character I did for a friend. I like to call her Rakko.
This is the version of the character completely drawn and colored. She is basically finished. Notice that I have basically selected a light source (upper right) and colored and shaded appropriately. So now that we have this awesome character, I must admit, she looks a bit lonely on a big white background. We can remedy that! What sort…
Training in the remotest parts of the galaxy, TicTacToeTron (also known as T4 for those who are down) has relentlessly sought the highest point of perfection in the mind-bending process that some call the game “Tic-Tac-Toe”.
This is the Tic-Tac-Toe Applet. The AI player will play a human player using the AI minimax algorithm. Using this algorithm the computer can look forward into the future and determine the consequence of every move it makes - and since tic-tac-toe is a pretty simplistic game, TicTacToeTron will be able to make his moves with perfect accuracy. He can never lose. See this link for a deeper explanation of the minimax algorithm.
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This is a an applet that implements a well-known Artificial Intelligence algorithm called A* search. The 'robot' is set up in a maze-like structure and must find its way to the goal. The robot has complete knowledge of the environment - meaning that it knows where the goal is and where the walls are.
See this link to see a more complete description of A* search. This implementation of A* uses 4 simple heuristics (that is, guesses the robot can make about the best path to take based on knowledge of its environment):
1) the straightline distance between where the robot is and there the goal is.
2) the distance between where the robot is and there the goal is on the…
The Peg Board solver is a depth-first-search algorithm that will iterate through each potential configuration of the peg board that is possible - it will then store each solution that it finds. Since there are no loops in the search space, this method is complete and when the search is done all possible solutions to the game will have been found. See this link for a more in-depth explanation of the Peg Board game and its solutions.
Click here to see a quick analysis of my solution to the puzzle. Download the source code for the java program below.Downloads FilenameFilesizeDateLink pegboard.zip 3.92K K 2006-06-24 Download
So I was writing an implementation of the A* search algorithm for a friend. He has a robot that must navigate a maze - the robot can obtain "complete" knowledge of its environment through an instrument called "ladar". It uses lasers to map out the area around it. Thus, knowing the goal and the obstacles around it, the A* search algorithm proved to be a prime solution for automatically navigating the robot.
One of the best ways to implement A* is using a priority queue. That is because of the following. As the search generates steps that it can take, it will store each step in a data structure. The most easiest and abstract way to handle this is to have a priority…
What are absolutes? Their definition is self describing. They are truths; things that remain true despite any sort of circumstance. Things that we know, beyond any shadow of any shred of doubt, are correct. They are not relative to anything - they merely exist in their own right. Do any absolutes exist? I believe this is an important question. For even if we cannot determine any absolutes save one, this would still logically prove the existence of a higher 'sentience'. What do I mean? I intend to explain that. First, let us start with an example of an absolute. Here is an absolute - you will die. Of that I can be absolutely certain. Alternatively, from that point, since you will die, we know…
Do we as humans have true free will? It is a very thought provoking question. Many have pondered it. Yet, knowing what we know today, realizing the truths of the 21st century, what can we say about the subject of free will? Well, in order to answer that question we need a definition of free will. What is free will? The simple definition is this – the ability to make a choice of your own will, freely, without coercion. I would add to that definition the ability to carry out those choices. When we say ‘will’, we mean your own intellect, your personhood, your mind. Some would say brain. But we will get to that.…
This paper will address the issue of the so called Apocrypha, or “Lost Books of Bible.” We will look at their content, their validity, and their right to be included in the Bible as God inspired Scripture. But before we discuss the so-called missing books of the Bible, first let us clarify some definitions and concepts of the Bible itself. Our discussion will deal only with the Old Testament books because the books of the Apocrypha were written after the last books of the Old Testament and before the time of Christ. They would be considered then an extension of the Old Testament; so the OT will be our main focus. The first thing I should point out is that the Lost Books of the Bible…
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