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…
Alpha Mountain from Dione. Tantalus Range, SW British Columbia, Canada.
Beinn Bhan descent ridge from the A'Chioch ridge. Applecross, Scotland.
The summut of Serratus. Tantalus Range, SW British Columbia, Canada. Climber : Cormac Flynn.
Walkers on the Fairfield Horseshoe. Lake District, Cumbria.
Toll an Lochain. An Teallach, North West Scotland.
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Winter Camping
Last week myself and a group of friends took a winter camping trip up to the Lake District. An odd decision, it could be argued, seen as the region has recently seen both some of its worst flooding and coldest…
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…
Using Merged ResourceDictionaries in Silverlight Themes
Silverlight 3.0 moved its featureset closer to that of WPF by adding support for merged Resource Dictionaries and Style Inheritance. Without these features, developing custom templates and styles for Silverlight controls can become a bit of a copy-and-paste nightmare. Since…
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…
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…
URM Emulator
The Unlimited Register Machine (URM), designed by Nigel Cutland, is an abstraction of a computer similar to the Turing Machine – but somewhat easier to get to grips with and more in tune with the operation of a modern computer…