I skipped a few days of my personal 'blogging timetable'. I kept procrastinating about what to write, as I had couple of 'articles' done (recipes and makeup! What do you want to see first? :)) however I was looking forward shooting better pictures. I also went through a very difficult week, lots of unexpected things happened so I really had no time to write something decent. Please forgive me :)

Anyway.

I got couple of interesting questions, as comments to my previous entries. I thought it would have been cool to share them. If you have any question, just comment my entries (wherever you can) or send questions and comments via email. Thank you bobbysroom for inspiring me this post :)


Of course I had to decorate this entry with a picture. Since none I own seems to be on topic and I am too lazy to shoot one on purpose, let's heavily go off topic anyway and post a backstage. This is by EVH (check his new website!) and I was getting ready for the shoot :)

So, first question (will answer only one this post, otherwise would be too long. Next days, next Q/A! :D):

"What is it about math that you find so interesting? And since you are a computer savvy person, what kind of things do you do with your computer? I mean do you like to write software or is there any particular program(s) that you could find yourself working with for hours at a time."

I will just split this question into two different questions; the one about maths, and the one about computers.

There's a little bit of history to hear, first. Uh-oh, I knew you were really hoping for me not to say this. Don't worry, I'll try to keep the "story of my life" short.

In my teens I did not like math. Just like gazillions of other people anyway. I believe that math is not 'difficult'; it's just like a puzzle. One has to see the piece well and understand what the right position is, in order to match it with the others and create the whole picture. In 9/10 of the cases, people do not like maths because their teachers haven't been 'good enough' in teaching it. Sad to say, however truly true. I think there are so many unaware math lovers around ;)

During university, I have been kinda forced studying maths, so I gave it a second chance. All of my efforts went into learning how 'advanced basics' worked and little by little learnt the whole thing, mostly by myself. At the point that I had fun doing algebra for relaxing and I liked how math proofs worked. Some are really funny. They're wicked. Some are black magic. The number is there, then you for some reason assume it's like this, and that thing sounds like the other one, and since it sounds like the other one we can say the result is: a pear. Oh God. It really is like that. I kid you  not! And this is what I like the most: you can play with maths. Nobody ever told me that :3

Of course, you lose the ability once you stop doing so. It requires constant practice, just like sport. You get better at it the more you do it, and tend to forget how to calculate a "x" after a while you do not.  And of course I'm not that good at maths anymore, I never practice these days. I am still quite good, however not as good as I used to be :)

We're at the point in which I should introduce computers. Well, maths become unbelievable when you apply them to programming. This means that a "simple" math formula can turn into a fantastic shape. Let's talk about Game Programming. Computer graphics. 3D. Or even when you resize your photos: it's all about maths, and what you do is to 'interpolate'. Would you ever imagine you're just fitting those polynomial curves between the points you specify? Neat.

So I used a lot maths when coding, in a special way when putting my dirty little hands into gamecode and several scenarios. I also had to solve academic math problems, which I did not like, still one of my first ASM progs was about implementing Fibonacci :D (I had been promised an icecream, so I did it quite fast. And got the icecream. I am easily pleased :D. I will code for  icecreams!).

Any "particular program(s) I could find myself working with for hours at a time"..? Not really, at the right moment. It depends. When I get some web design/developing commissions, then I use a lot several programs. Also, when I get illustration commissions or photographic work (as I retouch a lot of other people's photos :D) then yeah, I use those gfx/retouch programs. I don't have any 'favourite' at the moment.

That's it, this is the answer to the first question. I tried to keep it short. Next time, next question ;)

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