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  • amingilani3 hours ago
    Would you consider releasing these under a permissive license?<p>I run a (Canadian) ham radio training site[0] and would love to put them in the lessons. With attribution of course.<p>Edit: Oh gosh, your whole site is full of wonderful illustrations. My niece might finally get her license with these :)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clares.ca" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clares.ca</a>
    • stunningllama38 minutes ago
      Oh, yes. I updated the page so the animations are now under the CC-BY license. Glad to hear you like them!
  • westurner6 minutes ago
    - Headings w&#x2F; id= attr and a Table of Contents?<p>- &gt; <i>model vortices in superconductors or the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect:</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43955906">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43955906</a><p>- Nils Berglund fluid and particle sim videos: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@nilsberglund" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@nilsberglund</a><p>- The other day I tried having a model implement Fedi&#x27;s superfluid quantum gravity for a black hole simulation in JS and then given also EHT data. I asked it to implement with <i>R3F ReactThreeFiber</i> and Drei (ThreeJS) and NextJS with OpenNext for the GUI and framework. I haven&#x27;t yet upgraded to WASM optimization for the nonlinear fluid parts. There are parameter combinations that result in mirror-like rejection.<p>- (FWIU CloudFlare AI rewrote significant parts of NextJS this past year and there&#x27;s OpenNext to get the full benefits of nextjs on any hosting platform)<p>- Another neat one to model particles of: LightSlinger antennas<p>- Gravity from QED, but also MHD Magnetohydrodynamics, and SQR Superfluid Quantum Relativity with a dilatant superfluid to explain why c
  • customguy6 hours ago
    Ohhh. I have no real knowledge of electricity or electronics, but I know transistors are very fundamental so if you squint a bit, you might say this is what we set in motion when we program, or even just use a computer! Or at least some of it. Not knowing enough to benefit from it I learned nothing, and don&#x27;t regret a second of that.
    • smnplk9 minutes ago
      You can google for &quot;From nand to tetris&quot; or get the book Digital Design and Computer Architecture by Harris to get the idea of how these machines work.
  • danilor2 hours ago
    Cool!<p>I wonder how different those are to real simulations! Do they treat electrons as point-like, or it&#x27;s all computation on the fields?
    • stunningllama30 minutes ago
      The simulation does calculations on the fields only, so it keeps track of the average electron and hole density at each point in space. There is, however, a one-to-one correspondence between the behavior of the fields and the motion of individual particles, which is what makes these animations possible. What I mean by this is the diffusion equation is satisfied by the probability density of a particle undergoing a random walk. So given an electron density that obeys the diffusion-drift equations we can make dots undergo a random walk with drift that turns out to match the given density function (the result is the second set of animations).
  • 01jonny013 hours ago
    This would have been invaluable when I did my EEE degree many years ago. I use to draw the charge carries instead.
  • lefra5 hours ago
    Thanks, I have an EE education, but I didn&#x27;t really understood what charges were doing in a BJT. I can use them and apply the formulas, but I never really &quot;grokked&quot; them. This makes it clearer.
  • Mohiuddin74 hours ago
    That&#x27;s really cool. I am again planning to focus more on maths n physics...Hope it helps along..thanks
  • p1esk4 hours ago
    I wonder how difficult it would be to convert these to 3D
  • IshKebab4 hours ago
    This is really cool. It would have made understanding these so much easier when I was learning.<p>One minor suggestion - show the voltages in all the animations.
  • lloydatkinson4 hours ago
    This is one of the coolest animation&#x2F;diagrams I&#x27;ve ever seen, I wish they had them when I did this at uni. It sure beats whiteboards with scribbles and arrows all over it...
  • himata41136 hours ago
    it kind of looks unrealistic that there&#x27;s so little flow, but I guess that makes sense for micro-sized transistors, larger ones that can handle several amps at high voltage should behave differently and would be a rather interesting comparison.