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How 2D grid-based algorithms can be brought into the 3D worldCloseup of the triangular 50-neighborhood. (Image by author)In my previous two articles, A Short and Direct Walk with Pascal’s Triangle and A Quick and Clear Look at Grid-Based Visibility, we saw how easy it is to generate decent-looking travel paths and compute visible regions using grid-based algorithms. The techniques I shared in those posts can be used for video games, mobile robotics, and architectural design, though our examples were limited to two…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international team of scientists led by Oregon State University researchers has used a novel 500-year dataset to frame a "restorative" pathway through which humanity can avoid the worst ecological and social outcomes of climate change. In addition to charting a possible new course for society, the researchers say their…

Seen through a lens of ongoing technological and medical progress it's easy to feel optimistic about humanity's future prosperity. Scratch a little deeper, it soon becomes clear that our success as a species is anything but guaranteed.New research led by a team from the University of Stockholm in Sweden outlines 14 different "evolutionary traps" that our global population could potentially be ensnared by, ultimately leading to our demise.According to the team behind the study, part of the problem is that we've been doing…

Structural Equation Model. Credit: Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2023.100792 We all remember 2020. At the grocery store, toilet paper shelves were empty. Cleaning supplies and disinfectants were treasured finds. Rattled consumers, concerned that they would run out of essential items, swiftly stockpiled products until they disappeared from shelves. In the media, it was…

To create a heading, chapter, or sub-chapter, type the text that will serve as the title, select the text with your cursor, click the Normal text drop-down in the formatting toolbar, and select Heading 1, Heading 2, or Heading 3. Continue doing this until you have all of the headings formatted. Formatting your headings in Google Docs. Image: Jack Wallen From the outline view, you can click any one of the outline entries to automatically be taken to that point in the document. You can also click + to add a…

The U.S. inflation report for October will show how consumer prices changed last month, signaling whether their rate of increase is easing as interest rates climb. Strong and broad price pressures fueled rapid inflation in September, the Labor Department said last month. The consumer-price index rose 8.2% from a year earlier, down from annual increases of 8.3% in August and 8.5% in July. June’s 9.1% inflation rate was the highest in four decades. So-called core CPI, which excludes volatile energy and food prices, rose…

Amber Heard has outlined several grounds on which she intends to appeal the trial verdict that found her guilty of defaming ex-husband Johnny Depp.On Tuesday (11 October), attorneys for the Aquaman star filed an appellate brief to the Court of Appeals in Virginia, detailing 16 grounds for appeal, including a claim that the case should have been dismissed as it shouldn’t have taken place in northern Virginia.The six-week, Spring defamation trial sided largely with Depp, awarding him $10m (£8m) in compensatory damages and…

Top Western finance officials are expected to lay out their plan for setting a cap on the price of Russian oil this week as they push to put together a workable policy before a December deadline.Finance ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies are set to meet virtually on Friday, when they are expected to release an endorsement of the price-cap plan and commit to finalizing its implementation, according to people familiar with the matter. The expected announcement opens a new front in the West’s so far…

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: As OpenSea faces a backlash over stolen and plagiarized NFTs, executives acknowledge the problem and outline steps to improve trust, including hiring more staff — OpenSea, one of the highest-profile crypto start-ups, is facing a backlash over stolen and plagiarized nonfungible tokens. David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: As OpenSea faces a backlash over stolen and plagiarized NFTs, executives acknowledge the problem and outline steps to improve trust,…

The global pandemic is not yet over. Public health experts suspect it will last at least another five years, but how this ongoing crisis plays out is ultimately up to us.A new report from the International Science Council (ISC), an international organization who's aim is to unite scientific bodies around the world, has laid out three scenarios that could occur by 2027.  The report was written by a panel of 20 experts on public health, virology, economics, behavioral science, ethics, and sociology.While their commentary…