Up until a few days ago I was not fully aware of the implications of systematic discrimination and bias against a particular race or ethnicity on its future generations. A lot has been said about how assimiliation of people from races or ethnicities discriminated against in the past into the mainstream economy is an arduous […]
I was sitting on the upper deck of the tram on my way to a friend’s place earlier today. It was raining heavily and it was a pleasure to hear the pattering outside, but my attention was drawn towards the very front. A very agitated kid of around 18 was standing in front of his […]
Now that we have a way to plot great circles on to equirectangular planes, how do we use that to detect the pitch and roll of the camera and consequently stabilise the video? Draw Curves First, we need to draw the curves as opencv images: We calculate the curves according to the roll and pitch […]
Python to plot projections of great circles on to equirectangular planes
Python to plot projections of great circles on to equirectangular planes
Some insights on implementing a password recovery system securely.
After one of the projects in my company had reached a point where refactor was not only recomended, but necessary to clean up the code and make it maintainable, I decided to use a different approach for DOM manipulation in the client facing web app. Since we were doing a major refactor (yes, it does […]
Recently, I was asked a question about Javascript development: how are modules used in ES6 and then how do they magically become one .js file when deployed. Since I have been using a workflow which answers both of these, I am going to write it up here for anyone who wants to know. Big projects […]
Let’s jump right in to three.js plane buffer geometry. Three.js offers a buffer geometry object which is a simple array of height maps, much like our binary file we used from the SRTM data. Compared to the normally used plane geometry, buffer geometry uses much less overhead and is significantly faster if the object does […]
1 arc second SRTM Data was made [publicly available] (http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/) by NASA a few months ago. SRTM Data is collected by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. It sweeps the surface of the earth to find irregularities which form the height map. According to the mission website: To acquire topographic (elevation) data, the SRTM payload was […]