Episode 32: OpenSCAD

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News

• How to start a machine learning startup
• http://www.quora.com/I-recently-joined-a-startup-as-a-machine-learning-lead-engineer-What-are-some-tasks-and-goals-I-should-establish
• Choosing a Language for a Programming Interview
• http://blog.codingforinterviews.com/best-programming-language-jobs/
• Math Visualizations
• https://plus.google.com/111051039748078110427/posts/BYWUpcSgsYU
• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/BinomialTheorem.png
• https://plus.google.com/117789888672338340464/posts/a8UcEvpXoD4
• Wolfram Language
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik

Book of the Show

• Jason: My Friend Dahmer http://amzn.to/1eOLNL8
• Patrick: Make Magazine http://makezine.com/

Tool of the Show

• Jason: uSelect iDownload (Chrome Extension)
• Patrick: Skulls of the Shogun http://skullsoftheshogun.com/

OpenSCAD

• 3d models
• Representation of the real world
• Pure/Mathematical
• NURBS: Non-uniform rational B-spline
• Shapes
• 2d
• 3d
• Transformations
• Affine Transformation
• 3d Transformation
• Quaternions (4-D Trick)
• Boolean Operations
• Alternatives
• Blender, 3d Studio Max
• implicitCad (similar, written in Haskell)
• RayTracing
• Scene Description Language
• Cast rays from camera to light source
• POVRay