{"id":710,"date":"2005-01-07T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/07\/modeling-reality\/"},"modified":"2013-03-16T11:46:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T20:46:57","slug":"348036","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/07\/348036\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year everyone!<br \/>My first 2005 post is about something that I hold very dear, a computer science book titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0198531001\/qid=1105051627\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14\/104-1576207-4345531?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">Modeling Reality<\/a>&#8220;.<br \/>I&#8217;ve seen pretty much all phases of&nbsp;its building happening at about 1 mt from me: following the geek couple pattern by the book, she spent her evenings on her laptop at her side of the bed while I dug Gartner reports on web services and similar activities on mine. Ah forgot to mention: the book is the English version of the title <em>Modelowanie Rzeczywisto\u015bci<\/em>, written by my girlfriend and her father from a cycle of lectures.<br \/>I haven&#8217;t exactly read the book from cover to cover, though I recall various passionate discussions with the authors: the topics are very interesting (graph theory, social networks, statistical linguistics, evergreen fractals, chaotic systems, game theory, etc etc etc), and they are explained in a very straightforward fashion. What&nbsp;is really&nbsp;remarkable, though,&nbsp;is the accompanying CDROM with the software collection that was written in order to experience the concepts in the book: there is a Maldebrot explorer based on DirectX9 which delivers astounding performances, allowing zoom-in practically in real time. I haven&#8217;t managed to talk her into writing things in managed code (I even bought her a copy of Visual Studio .NET&nbsp;some Christmas ago, playing havoc with the traditionalist mindsets in my family since it&#8217;s not considered a suitable present for a girl :-)), she&nbsp;was really an old fashion C++ developer&#8230;<br \/>Curious fact: the cover image was modeled and rendered with POVray, and the&nbsp;high resolution version took to her machine (a modern P4 1.2 Gz with a respectable 512 Mb RAM) something like a night and a day to render!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year everyone!My first 2005 post is about something that I hold very dear, a computer science book titled &#8220;Modeling Reality&#8220;.I&#8217;ve seen pretty much all phases of&nbsp;its building happening at about 1 mt from me: following the geek couple pattern by the book, she spent her evenings on her laptop at her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}