Dec 16
Whenever I want to do a new Cygwin install on Windows, I’d have to just keep scrolling the Cygwin installer window to find the packages that I use frequently. I decided to compile a list of packages I use and put them here so that I wouldn’t have to waste time on it again in the …
Dec 16
Some C/C++ code targeted for GNU family compilers fail to compile under Windows due to the dependency on sys/time.h header file. The repository here has provided a neat implementation for it. Basically you need these three files: time.h, times.h and times.cpp. I have included them here (in case the repository ever went dead). Note that …
Nov 13
I was using WinForm’s CheckedListBox control a few minutes ago and my application was crashing with an out of memory exception. This was happening on the line where new items were being added to the CheckedListBox. It did not make any sense at all, since I was only adding the second item to the control. …
Nov 10
I spent hours trying to compile CGAL 4.7 with Visual Studio 2013. Everything compiled on the first try with Visual Studio 2010 but for some reason I was unable to get it working with VS2013. CMake would create the solution files just fine and was able to resolve everything. However, when I attempted to build …
Oct 12
Exactly a month ago I was dealing with the problem of rendering some text on the screen using the font + texture rendering method. The problem I had was only the first text block was rendered to the screen. After a little bit of digging around I found this question on StackOverflow. Although the answers …
Aug 14
NOTE: MORE ITEMS WILL BE ADDED TO THIS LIST Today I decided to keep a Linux cheat sheet around to avoid looking up some common tasks on Google. I keep forgetting some commands and I feel like I should get them tattooed somewhere on the back of my hand so that I wouldn’t forget them. Although …
Jul 20
In WinForms, mouse events are raised regardless of the original source of the mouse. If you click a button with the stylus for instance, you’d still get the MouseClick event. This MSDN page explains how to distinguish between the sources of the event. To make the long story short, you’d have to place an API call …
Jul 07
Let’s say that in your git repository, you have a master branch and an experimental branch. You’ve fixed a bug on file A on the experimental branch and you would like to commit that fix to the master branch. This is possible using the git cherry-pick command. First, switch to the experimental branch and execute git log. Take …
Jun 30
Least squares fit is used for 2D line fitting. In 3D space, the line is called 3D Orthogonal Distance Regression (ODR) line. The line can be easily found in 3D using SVD (singular value decomposition). Assuming that we have a bunch of 3D points (x0, y0, z0) to (xn, yn, zn), the algorithm (in MATLAB) is as follows: …
Jun 26
This page contains methods for performing various intersection tests. Although it does not have an entry for ray vs. line segment intersection, I tried the suggested ray vs. ray intersection test (page 782 of Real-Time Rendering 3rd Edition) and it did not work in my case. I looked around quite a bit and based on an …
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