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Re:Show HN: An algorithm for smoothly filling holes in 3D me... by erkaman on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:46PM (#16471130)
I agree with you mostly. I just think that this is an interesting usage of variational calculus, which is not that well understood by other programmers, so I wanted to write this article about this, in order to introduce other programmers to the topic.

And also because I thought the literature about this out there wasn't really that readable, and I always think there is value in writing expository texts like this.

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Re:Show HN: An algorithm for smoothly filling holes in 3D me... by pducks32 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:10AM (#16472104)
Yea I really liked your post because of that focus. I use variation all calculus quite a lot for non-programming stuff and it’s really allowed me to understand things like NNs way better and I think so many other programmers could benefit from a small bit of it.
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