Experimental build of Unity game editor is available for Linux. Just installed it and looks good, so far.
Grab the experimental build yourself and give it a whirl.
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coursera.org – Learn from 595 courses, from our 108 partners.
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codebymath.com – learn math while coding
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N.J. Wildberger’s Math Foundations and Algebraic Topology series, or his popular Rational Trigonometry (to avoid sine and cosine).
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There’s lots of stuff out there, as demonstrated w/ “20 great math sites for students and teachers” .
Play games much? What’s your favorite way to choose your destination, toggle options, select items or swap weapons?
I prefer radial menus as the best way to turn “lists” of options into “branches” of option. Some say “touch means a Renaissance” for the radial menu and I agree! Unfortunately this leaves mouse users with the typical lists… which only get smaller and smaller with each increase in resolution. GAH!
I created a post on odforce.net about radial menus and how I’d love to see something like this in Houdini. Maya has something very similar that they call “Marking Menus”, which are great… especially since they can be customized.
I’m a big fan of gesture based control as it helps eliminate mouse strain AND helps the digital artist stay more focused on the task at hand. I find lists to be very distracting, and I end up devoting too much energy into “searching” instead of “activating“. Radial menus create option gestures!
Speaking of gestures and radial menus, I just came across this update for the Leap Motion, where the artist is molding clay without getting his hands dirty. So much fun, though I’d have the weakest wrist of all clay sculptors. I can only imagine that UIs that are in development. Hopefully the big corps don’t pattent the ideas before they become widely available.
While I’m being nostalgic. here’s a slick Youtube video I cam across that shows many of the games that I spent SOoooo much of my time playing as a child. What else are you going to do, when you are miles from your friends, it’s summer vacation and your a computer geek?
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