Poisson's Equation
If you aren’t used to staring at math, Poisson’s equation looks a little intimidating:
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If you aren’t used to staring at math, Poisson’s equation looks a little intimidating:
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This is the encyclopedic blog post I wish I could have read when I started designing my CNC router.
If vector multiplication were invertible, we could treat vectors just like any other variable. We could do simple algebra like:
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In this post we’ll try to make sense of what we’re seeing, and try to understand what it means to invert a circle!