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Thin Plate Spline Interpolation

October 13, 2026
Numerical Methods
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Thin-plate spline (TPS) interpolation is a smooth method for fitting a surface through scattered points in two or more dimensions...

Interpolation

October 13, 2026
Numerical Methods
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Interpolation constructs a function that passes exactly through a set of known data points. If the data are...

Gaussian Interpolation

October 13, 2026
Numerical Methods
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Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) interpolation builds a smooth interpolant from Gaussian functions centered at the data sites...

Least Squares

October 13, 2026
Numerical Methods
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Least squares fits a model to data by minimizing the sum of squared residuals...

Regression

October 13, 2026
Numerical Methods
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Regression models the relationship between one or more predictors and a response variable. Unlike interpolation, regression generally does not try to pass exactly through every observation. Instead, it chooses model parameters that balance data fit with a chosen model structure...

Drama

October 12, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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Standard of Iron: The Dead Company is a dialogue series filmed in the arena. An episode goes from script to finished film in five steps, all driven by files under scripts/drama/episodes//...

Asynchronous Programming

October 12, 2026
Parallel And Concurrent Programming
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Asynchronous programming is a technique for achieving concurrency without forcing one operation to block progress while it waits for another to finish. Instead of requiring each task to complete before the next can make progress, asynchronous code can suspend waiting work and continue with other rea...

Mpi

October 12, 2026
Parallel And Concurrent Programming
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The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a standardized, portable interface for message passing across a wide range of parallel-computing systems. It provides library routines for building parallel applications whose processes communicate by explicitly sending and receiving data. The MPI standard defi...

Hardware

October 12, 2026
Parallel And Concurrent Programming
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Parallel computing uses multiple hardware execution resources to make progress on more than one operation at a time. Those resources may exist inside one CPU core, across several cores or processor sockets, on a GPU, or across multiple networked machines. The useful performance gain depends not only...

Designing Parallel Programs

October 12, 2026
Parallel And Concurrent Programming
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Designing a parallel program means restructuring a computation so that useful work can proceed concurrently without making coordination costs dominate. A good design does more than create many tasks: it exposes enough parallelism, keeps processors busy, limits communication and synchronization, pres...

Multithreading

October 12, 2026
Parallel And Concurrent Programming
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Multithreading lets several threads make progress within one process. Threads share its address space and resources such as open files, while each thread has its own stack, registers, and execution position...

Basic Terminology

October 12, 2026
Parallel And Concurrent Programming
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Let's start with the terms used throughout these notes. Some sound similar but describe different things: how tasks are ordered, whether they run at the same time, and what happens while they wait. These ideas apply across programming languages; later notes explain how individual languages implement...

Evaluating Performance

October 12, 2026
Parallel And Concurrent Programming
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Evaluating a parallel program means more than asking whether it runs faster with more processors. Good performance analysis looks at how much faster it becomes, how efficiently it uses additional resources, where time is lost, and whether the behavior remains stable as the workload or machine size g...

Gpu Programming

October 12, 2026
Parallel And Concurrent Programming
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GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) are throughput-oriented processors designed to apply similar operations across large numbers of data elements in parallel. They were originally built for graphics workloads, where millions of pixels or vertices must be processed, but the same architecture is also eff...

Input and Output

October 12, 2026
Vtk Examples
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Input/output is where VTK starts being a tool you can actually plug into real workflows. Data rarely originates inside VTK; it usually comes from scanners, simulators, CAD tools, or research pipelines. So the ability to read reliably, preserve attributes, and write back out in the right format is wh...

Performance Optimization and Parallelism

October 12, 2026
Vtk Examples
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When working with complicated datasets and sophisticated visualization pipelines, performance optimization and parallelism become important for delivering real-time or near-real-time insights. VTK (Visualization Toolkit) supports a variety of performance-enhancing techniques and offers a strong fram...

Visualization Techniques

October 12, 2026
Vtk Examples
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Modern datasets don’t just have “more rows”, they have more dimensions: space, time, uncertainty, multiple physical variables, and often multiple scales of detail. In that world, visualization isn’t decoration; it’s how you think. VTK matters here because it doesn’t force you into one visualization ...

Interactivity

October 12, 2026
Vtk Examples
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By combining low-level access to rendering primitives with high-level interactor and widget frameworks, VTK enables you to build applications where users can drill into complex datasets, modify display parameters in real time, and receive immediate visual feedback. These capabilities not only enhanc...

Animations

October 12, 2026
Vtk Examples
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VTK offers a set of tools to create animations and visualize time-varying data. This is particularly useful in scenarios such as...

Custom Filters and Algorithms

October 12, 2026
Vtk Examples
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Creating custom filters and algorithms opens up a world of possibilities for tailored data processing and visualization. By extending VTK's capabilities, specialized techniques can be introduced that meet the unique needs of scientific research, engineering, medical imaging, or data analysis...

Filters and Algorithms

October 12, 2026
Vtk Examples
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VTK’s filters and algorithms allow you to convert your data from “a static dataset” to a dynamic pipeline: you generate something, clean it up, extract meaning, and reshape it into a form that’s easier to analyze or visualize. Think of it like a workshop line: raw material comes in, tools operate on...

Data Types and Structures

October 12, 2026
Vtk Examples
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VTK is built to carry real-world 2D/3D data all the way from “numbers in memory” to “something you can see and reason about.” That means it needs data types that store values, but also store where those values live in space and how they connect. Choosing the right structure early simplifies filterin...

Campaign Missions

October 11, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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This document explains the purpose of every campaign mission: what the player is asked to do, what the mission is designed to teach, and whether victory comes from attacking, defending, or managing the economy...

Promo Capture

October 10, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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Standard of Iron's promotional video pipeline is split into two reproducible stages: deterministic gameplay capture in Arena and offline editorial assembly with FFmpeg...

Documentary

October 10, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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The Barcid Road: Hannibal's War (epic #1547) is finished by scripts/documentary, a small Python package with one entry point: ...

Campaign Map Film

October 10, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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campaign_map_film films the campaign's Mediterranean map for "The road" sequence of each episode (#1531, epic #1547): a camera flight over the map with Hannibal's march drawing in, regions lit, battle sites pinned and dated, and army strengths exported...

Formation Architecture

October 10, 2026
Standard Of Iron
EN

Standard of Iron has two formation layers because they solve two different spatial problems...

Animation Architecture

October 09, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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How a creature in Standard of Iron goes from "this unit is attacking" to moving geometry on screen — and why it is fast enough to do for thousands of units at once...

Baked Meshes

October 09, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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Every mesh the game assembles out of primitive parts (unit spheres, cylinders, cones and boxes placed by C++ code) is assembled once, at build time, and merged into a single mesh. The running game loads the merged result; it never builds a procedural mesh out of parts, and it never keeps the parts a...

Cursed Gold Vein

October 07, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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The cursed gold vein is a capturable world element built around a deliberate trade-off. Visually, it is a crag of dark rock split by an ore seam, with gold crystals growing from the fracture and a claim flag planted beside it. Mechanically, it rewards ownership with a steady income while damaging th...

Map Generator

October 06, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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scripts/soi-mapgen.py turns a seed, a preset and a handful of parameters into a complete, playable battlefield. It does not replace the map pipeline; it authors the intent that pipeline already consumes and then runs it...

Unit Balance

October 05, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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Unit balance in Standard of Iron is defined by executable simulation inputs: shipped troop data, nation overrides, combat multipliers, formation/stance behavior, production/economy values, and deterministic matchup fixtures run through tools/balance_sim...

Rafts

October 05, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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A raft is a fixed crossing on a river: a log raft on a guide rope stretched between the two banks. It carries one unit at a time from one bank to the other. The Rhône crossing (218 BC) is the first battle of The Barcid Road campaign, and the rafts are what let Hannibal's army cross a river with no b...

Siege Presentation

October 04, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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Roman and Carthaginian ballistas and catapults use reinforced timber carriages, open spoked wheels with iron tyres, bronze straps and hubs, and short moving standards. The presentation scale is 1.35x for ballistas and 1.20x for catapults, applied after...

Minimap

October 04, 2026
Standard Of Iron
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The HUD minimap combines four cached raster layers with one live QML overlay. The split is designed around invalidation: stable pictures of world state are rebuilt only when their inputs change, while continuously animated signals stay on the scene graph...