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Smooth voxel terrain: isosurface extraction with marching cubes and surface nets.
https://0fps.net/2012/07/12/smooth-voxel-terrain-part-2/
saved 2021-01-08

Smooth Voxel Terrain (Part 2)
Last time we formulated the problem of isosurface extraction and discussed some general approaches at a high level.  Today, we’re going to get very specific and look at meshing in particular.…

Ab dem #Hochsommer begegnen mir nach frischem #Regen manchmal #Weinbergschnecken 🐌. Da muss man höllisch aufpassen, wenn die über schmale

From my hike last Sunday.
This moment, when you turn around and see the summit that you're heading to for the first time and think "hm - still quite a bit to go"
#hiking #mountains #wandern

Got a Labu lawn robot a while back here and wow have to say this thing is much nicer than I imagined.
I previously had Hasqvarna here quoting obscene amounts and then went to put aerials, wires and all sorts of shit here. Totally unworkable. We redo what areas here we cut and do things in every year.
Labu just works plus it’s AWD and doesn’t mind my rough terrain - Hasqvarna wanted to spend 2k to flatten the lawn so their machines can work

The Consciousness Trilogy: Reading Three Wagers on the Question We Cannot Settle
This page exists for readers who want a map of the consciousness sequence published on BolesBlogs in the spring of 2026. Three articles, taken together, cover the contemporary terrain on the deepest question philosophy still asks. Each can be read alone. Read in sequence, they form a coordinated treatment of the consciousness problem that points beyond any single solution toward what the…

The Consciousness Trilogy: Reading Three Wagers on the Question We Cannot Settle | David Boles, Blogs
This page exists for readers who want a map of the consciousness sequence published on BolesBlogs in the spring of 2026. Three articles, taken together, cover the contemporary terrain on the deepes…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116706024941055452
“Corollary 1 (AoE II is Turing-Complete). Let I be an instance of AoE II with two players p0,p1. Assume p0 has two markets, a town centre, a trade cart, six villagers, and five farms; while p1 has a scout unit and only attacks p0’s buildings. Then if I has no time or size limits and the terrain allows for buildings everywhere, the game session in I is Turing-complete.”

En route to Cirque de Troumouse & Cirque d'Estaubé (Pyrenees, 2018)
#MountainMonday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

Graham Platner can be replaced as the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine
⭐️ if he withdraws from the race by next Monday,
⭐️ and state law would then give the state Democratic Party until July 27 to name a replacement.
Maine Democrats would be in uncharted terrain if Mr. Platner does exit the contest
after a Politico report that he sexually assaulted a woman he had dated.
He denied the allegation but said he was taking time to “reflect” on his political path …

Who Might Replace Graham Platner if He Drops Out of the Maine Senate Race?
Graham Platner can be replaced on the ballot if he withdraws in the next week. If he does, Maine Democrats would face an uncertain two-week race to choose a replacement.

Eliminates part of my relutance to take a road trip up north…
I hate the idea of not involving K in everything we do, which ultimately means that we don’t do much. Travel is hard and anything leaving paved areas for more than a few feet is close to impossible. But this… we could do.
I deeply miss walking in the gentle wilds of NW Michigan. @…

Mali: enlèvement de Mountaga Tall, avocat et défenseur de la démocratie - RFI
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20260503-mali-enlèvement-de-mountaga-tall-avocat-et-défenseur-de-la-démocratie

Mali: enlèvement de Mountaga Tall, avocat et défenseur de la démocratie
Au Mali, un calme précaire règne sur le terrain. Aucun affrontement n'a été rapporté, depuis le début du week-end du 2-3 mai, alors que les jihadistes du Jnim et les rebelles indépendantistes du FLA sont à l'offensive depuis le 25 avril, dans tout le pays et principalement dans le Nord. La capitale Bamako reste soumise à un blocus partiel instauré par les jihadistes, depuis le 28 avril. Dans la nuit du samedi 2 au dimanche 3 mai, Me Mountaga Tall, avocat, homme politique et ardent dé…

Here's a photo from a recent hike that I wrote about in my blog ( https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/a-spring-hike-with-unexpected-challenges-in-the-snow/ ).
Well - it's been a very cool day up there :) Nothing much to add that I h…

Idea: GPWS and rad alt voiced by vocaloids
Hatsune miku: "Five hundred... Four hundred... Three hundred"
Kasane teto: "Too low... Terrain! Pull up! Pull up!"

I wanted to explore the topographic relief cartographic style that I did for Santorini, Greece, last year¹ and tried it on the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴.
One new thing is that I worked with @… terrain tiles instead of processing the raw NASADEM data.
Feedback and comments are requested! 🙏
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Here is the new #MoonBase NASA website: https://www.nasa.gov/moonbase/ - at the presser it was also announced that Blue Origin, AstroLab and LunarOutpost have been chosen to build and deliver Lunar Terrain Vehicles while Firefly will build the vehicle to carry the Moonfall probes: https://bsky.app/profile/genejm1017.bsky.social/post/3mmrmpih4yc22. Meanwhile three NASA-sponsored Moon landings are planned for the remainder of this year: https://nitter.net/NASA/status/2059338624651387312#m

For decades, Mat wasn’t paid for his work.
Enslavers rented him out for $100 a year to a man who wanted to turn the site into a tourist attraction
– what would later become Mammoth Cave national park.
In the mid-19th century, Mat was one of several enslaved guides who became an expert in the hundreds of miles of underground terrain,
leading notable guests like Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil and Ralph Waldo Emerson through a sprawling labyrinth of dark passageways and ca…

‘A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks
Critics say the Trump administration is trying to rewrite and whitewash history by removing and altering scores of signs on public lands

#SilentSunday #Rail #Signs

Subsoil acidity causes long delays in inorganic carbon sequestration by Enhanced Weathering
S{\o}ren Jessen, Rasmus Jakobsen, Majken Looms, Per Ambus, Dieke Postma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01835 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.01835 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.01835
arXiv:2607.01835v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While a looming atmospheric CO$_2$ overshoot calls for immediate carbon sequestration, delays associated to Enhanced Weathering (EW) carbon dioxide removal are being investigated. Topsoil acidity is already known to delay EW carbon sequestration, but subsoil acidity remains underexplored. Using century-long agricultural liming of formerly acidic heathland as a proxy for EW, this study provides empirical evidence of subsoil-imposed delays. Below such limed terrain, we observed a downward-progressing front of topsoil-produced alkalinity that still requires 30-100 years to penetrate the approximately 5 m thick acidic sandy unsaturated zone and reach the groundwater table. Subsoil acidity thus may cause beyond-reasonable delays, prohibiting EW as a viable short-term carbon capture strategy even on topsoils made non-acidic by preceding liming. When planning EW schemes, the amounts of stored acidic cations in top- and subsoil, as well as the rate and composition of infiltrating water, controlling the duration of the delay, require careful assessment.
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NASA awarded Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin an initial $188 million contract
to get its robotic Blue Moon Mark 1 lander ready to deliver lunar terrain vehicles, or LTVs,
with an option period worth an additional $280.4 million for two task orders.
Carlos Garcia-Galan, program manager for NASA’s Moon Base program, said the LTVs will be
“a mix between the Apollo lunar roving vehicle and the Mars-style rover.”
Each rover will weigh a little less than one metric ton, …

📚 My book review of Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq
Two chapters are relevant, but incredibly thin on theory. The rest is a fairly well written overview of a number of urban operations scenarios, clearly chosen to stress the authors' point, whatever it may be. The whole thing has a sizable US slant. So yes. We have more cities, so wars might happen in places that require fighting in urban terrain. Also, water is wet.
⭐⭐

I sooo often don't have photos of the summit cross when I go to the #mountains . Don't ask me why. Maybe because I usually have people in the photo?
It was the same that day: I almost left without that photo when I stepped over the flowers and thought that they might be a cool foreground for the summit. And by focusing on the flowers and blurring the people, I also don't hav…