tylerhobbs

Great comment! Yes, there are many other approaches that are more true to reality, to the point where they are fairly thorough simulations of physics. My approach is somewhat like a five minute figure drawing sketch compared to the equivalent of hyper-realistic 100 hour paintings. Neither is necessarily a better approach, but both are good for different goals. What I like about my approach is that it is very easy for me to understand and manipulate. I can take advantage of this to make new effects that are less like reality but still intriguing in their own way.

Author here. Thank you! Yes, I think you have the basic gist of it. Split each line, then move an endpoint. There's nothing too complicated about the algorithm, the trick is really around fine tuning all of the possible parameters. If it's not obvious, my approach is purely going after aesthetic effects.

If you read the quoted portion of his comment, you'll see he's talking about the officers being sentenced, not the offense happening in the first place.

I'm assuming both you and your spouse are earning money, in my numbers. Additionally, you would presumably make investments with the money that you're saving, so you don't quite have to save the whole $1.5m straight up. I'm also not sure why you used a 2% withdrawal rate -- typically 4 to 5% is regarded as a conservative rate, which would be $60k to $75k per year.

I'm not suggesting that doing this is a walk in the park, you definitely have to prioritize around it (which may include living in a city that isn't insanely expensive), but it's doable.

> And apartment blocks had shops on the ground floor.

This is one of my favorite features of the Mueller area: the apartments do have shops on the ground floor. I actually live in a live-work unit in one of the apartments. My wife and I live upstairs, and she runs a hair salon on the ground floor below our unit. The other shops nearby include a small convenience/grocery store, a chiropractor, a shared-work space, restaurants, a small gym, etc.

The shops on the ground floor really improve the quality of the area, so I'm glad that Austin is finally pushing for more of this.

Thank you! (I'm the author of the post.) I am indeed writing my own code; I'm just using simple functions from Processing.

Thank you very much for the video link. It occurred to me while working on this that video game artists and animators probably do a ton of this, and have much more sophisticated models. Indeed, the result from that video is really, really good. I'm coming from a painting and abstract background. This was my first real exercise in studying natural patterns and textures through algorithmic artwork. I mostly intend to apply it to abstract artwork, but the more realistic approach shown in the video is a different, interesting angle on the same subject.

This is true. Most companies either start using Cassandra when their existing database infrastructure is struggling with a particular workload or they're planning a new feature that would be prohibitively difficult or expensive with an RDBMS.

The one exception to this might be a need for higher availability, especially if expanding to multiple datacenters is part of the plan.

Cassandra isn't designed to replace relational databases for all use cases. There are certain use cases where Cassandra excels, certain use cases where an RDBMS excels, and plenty of ground in between where you're making tradeoffs.

CQL was designed to resemble SQL in order to present an API that is reasonably familiar for most developers. It's quite limited when compared to SQL because it focuses on the areas where Cassandra excels.

(Disclosure: I'm a Cassandra committer.)