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Drawing geodesic curves using the Bing maps Silverlight control

For an upcoming post I wanted to be able to plot the shortest routes between various positions on the Earth using the Bing Maps Silverlight control. Although since I started working on the problem Bing have provided a similar feature

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Silverlight and CUDA interop

Update – source code now available Microsoft have recently released a beta of Silverlight 4, which has limited support for native interoperation using COM. Potentially, this example could be applied to any number of native interop scenarios, however for this

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Implementation of the Reaction Diffusion Simulation

Update – This post was written before the release of Silverlight 3.0b, which provides a number of enhancements relevant to this implementation, such as a WriteableBitmap and Pixel Shaders Rendering The first obstacle to implementing the RD simulation is that

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Reaction-Diffusion Models

One of Alan Turing‘s many contributions to mathematics and science during the 20th century was his 1952 paper on “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis” in which he suggested that a simple model of coupled differential equations could account for pattern

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