Ok, so I've had it with the musicians who have sold their souls to the corporations. With the advert of the Internet, they don't need anyone else to publish and distribute their music to the world. So now I want to get my music from independent artists. The problem is: I know what kind of music I like, and I know which mainstream bands make this kind of music, but I don't have time to go listening to every indie artist to find out what they make.
What I'm looking for is a site where I can enter or select names of bands or songs that I like, and get independent music recommended to me. You like Alanis Morisette? Try Jen Pitch. That sort of thing. Does anybody know of such sites?
By the way: the example above is just an association I know from the top of my head; I'm not very much into the kind of music at all.
This reminds me of an article I read a few months ago about using corn to produce ethanol on a large scale as a renewable resource. Follow-up articles pointed out that corn (maize, specifically) isn't a particularly efficient crop, which meant that the environmental impact of drilling for oil and depleting oil reserves was just being shifted to depleting topsoil. Very much a "no free lunch" reaction.
If this biodiesel process can be applied to enough different types of plants, then it should be possible to pick and choose crops based on what does well in a given area -- after all, we don't have to worry about market pressures and what people want to eat, it's just going to be converted into fuel -- which should minimize the effects of choosing hihg-impact crops.
Finite element modeling is the de facto analysis tool for numerous industries. When you use finite elements, you convert the complex differential equations that describe the physics of the part's behavior into simpler algebraic equations that the computer can solve. It's a powerful method because it enables you to take any complex problem and solve it.
To describe the geometry, you take this complex object and break it into primitive objects like cubes, spheres or cones. With this approach, if they only modify some portion of the part, they only modify the primitives directly associated with that portion they are changing and not all of the primitives. If they only change the shape of a specific hole in the part, for example, the rest of the primitive objects are the same shape, so why should they need to reconstruct the whole geometry and remesh the whole geometry?
I see it as a "hierarchical, constructive, meshless procedure" because it enables engineers to analyze the changing design of a part without recreating the complex mesh of elements. The way it is now, the same CAD software used to make the shape of the part can't be used to analyze the mesh. But now, the same CAD software or some similar CAD-friendly software will be able to do the analysis, and in a much more efficient manner because there is no remeshing.
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What I'm looking for is a site where I can enter or select names of bands or songs that I like, and get independent music recommended to me. You like Alanis Morisette? Try Jen Pitch. That sort of thing. Does anybody know of such sites?
By the way: the example above is just an association I know from the top of my head; I'm not very much into the kind of music at all.
Don't tell anyone, but OJ Simpson is an "en eye jee jee ee arr."
Chinese pee tastes like math.
If this biodiesel process can be applied to enough different types of plants, then it should be possible to pick and choose crops based on what does well in a given area -- after all, we don't have to worry about market pressures and what people want to eat, it's just going to be converted into fuel -- which should minimize the effects of choosing hihg-impact crops.
To describe the geometry, you take this complex object and break it into primitive objects like cubes, spheres or cones. With this approach, if they only modify some portion of the part, they only modify the primitives directly associated with that portion they are changing and not all of the primitives. If they only change the shape of a specific hole in the part, for example, the rest of the primitive objects are the same shape, so why should they need to reconstruct the whole geometry and remesh the whole geometry?
I see it as a "hierarchical, constructive, meshless procedure" because it enables engineers to analyze the changing design of a part without recreating the complex mesh of elements. The way it is now, the same CAD software used to make the shape of the part can't be used to analyze the mesh. But now, the same CAD software or some similar CAD-friendly software will be able to do the analysis, and in a much more efficient manner because there is no remeshing.