Monthly Archives: December 2005

Between bouncing and splashing: water drops on a solid surface

By Bojan | Published: December 15, 2005
This is my first semester term paper (co-authored with Katie Varland): bounce.pdf. It’s about water drops bouncing off hydrophobic surfaces. Yes, the premise sounds cool, and the shots we made with a high-speed camera are fascinating. The paper itself is descriptive rather than analytical, but an interesting boundary has been observed between a “splashing region” [...]
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Images in LaTeX

By Bojan | Published: December 8, 2005
Problem: you can’t get those images to appear in a typeset document. Cause: [code]]czo4OlwicGRmbGF0ZXhcIjt7WyYqJl19[[/code] and [code]]czo1OlwibGF0ZXhcIjt7WyYqJl19[[/code] have virtually no graphic drivers in common. For instance, [code]]czo4OlwicGRmbGF0ZXhcIjt7WyYqJl19[[/code] can't handle eps files. Solution: I converted my eps files to pdf using a thing called [code]]czo4OlwiZXBzdG9wZGZcIjt7WyYqJl19[[/code], which is included in latex distributions, and [code]]czo4OlwicGRmbGF0ZXhcIjt7WyYqJl19[[/code] handled those pdf graphs perfectly, so that the output [...]
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