• 3 Posts
  • 339 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: October 24th, 2023

help-circle











  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoScience Memes@mander.xyzfunctional
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    Wait, you’re totally right! I had it turned around!

    Quaternions avoid the gimbal lock issue, and are more efficient overall, but they’re a bit more complicated to understand.

    Euler is more user-friendly on the editing side of things, and easier to understand, but it’s got some shortcomings. (Maybe that’s why I thought this, perhaps some tutorials were telling me to use Euler at first…? Hm.)

    Both are an option in Blender and Godot for instance, because one might suit a given situation better than the other.




  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoScience Memes@mander.xyzUS education
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    What a coincidence! I had a very similar path! My elementary mis-education was largely a fundie school using Abeka as well. Their weird religious nationalism was so crazy when I look back on it. It’s amazing they could actually publish this crap.

    I wish I still had all the old books we had to get because that would make for a good laugh (and possibly an embarrassment campaign.)

    Like c’mon we were kids how were we supposed to know? But also it just felt so bullshitty, like a written form of that awkward feeling you got when it was really obvious adults were lying to manipulate you and thought you were stupid.

    It was in California, so eventually I had to move to the state curriculum also, around middle school, for my grades to actually count.

    Honestly, that requirement saved my intellect. I went to a secular charter school where I was pushed into interacting with so many different people of different perspectives, and I would be a much crappier person without that experience.

    Even today the damage isn’t gone, there’s still so much untangling and deprogramming to do.

    These “curriculums” are child abuse.

    After all that, I still kept my faith, not because of that upbringing, but in spite of it. That being said, I’m a Christian anarchist now. I make a point to counter this anti-intellectual, anti-Jesus, pro-fascist propaganda mongering wherever I can.

    For what it’s worth. . .I’m glad we both made it through the other side of being exposed to that slop.