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PhD student in EE (optics/physics/computational stuff). I mostly answer questions related to math, geometry, and numerics here.

May
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awarded  Caucus
Mar
12
comment Determining if a set of hexagons on a grid can tile the plane
That is correct, only translations, and no rotations. Not only that, but the overall tiling should be periodic.
Mar
12
asked Determining if a set of hexagons on a grid can tile the plane
Feb
2
awarded  Popular Question
Jul
28
awarded  Yearling
Jun
22
revised Find displacement of vertices of a prism (polyhedron)
fixed computation of rotation and added example.
Jun
22
comment Find displacement of vertices of a prism (polyhedron)
The centroids $q_c$ and $p_c$ are simply the averages of the set of points you're considering. So if you're using just 3 points, it's going to be the average of those three points, not the centroid of the prism itself.
Jun
21
comment Segmented area between circles
@Henning Makholm: You are indeed correct; I made a number of mistakes. I have correct them now.
Jun
21
revised Segmented area between circles
corrected mistakes
Jun
21
answered Find displacement of vertices of a prism (polyhedron)
Jun
21
comment Segmented area between circles
No. The plot clearly shows that it crosses over the area of $A_{12}$. Mathematica says this happens around $R=9.23574$.
Jun
21
comment Find displacement of vertices of a prism (polyhedron)
Your blocks are 12-sided prisms? What shapes are the cross sections? Are the displacements associated just with the block itself, or is there a unique displacement for each vertex?
Jun
21
comment Segmented area between circles
I should just like to add that numerically evaluating the areas is extremely simple as the sum of circular segments, and can even be done in a numerically robust way when the segments are thin slivers. For C code, see the function CircularSectorArea in this file
Jun
21
answered Segmented area between circles
Mar
7
comment Maintaining the line with the 2D iterands
This was cross posted at scicomp: [scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/1558/…
Jan
30
revised Find $DF$ in a triangle $DEF$
explained why i won't be posting a solution
Jan
30
comment Find $DF$ in a triangle $DEF$
No. The scale of the triangle DEF is scaled by a factor u, whereas the radius of the big circle is 14 (absolutely).
Jan
26
revised Find $DF$ in a triangle $DEF$
fixed inner radius
Jan
26
answered Find $DF$ in a triangle $DEF$
Jan
19
answered Computing a volume (area) of intersections