http://stephenskory.com/2008/02/12/monte-carlo-whoopass Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:31:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://stephenskory.com/2008/02/12/monte-carlo-whoopass/comment-page-1#comment-3188 MT Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:40:11 +0000 http://stephenskory.com/2008/02/12/monte-carlo-whoopass#comment-3188 I like Monte Carlo methods. I distinctly remember the first use I ever saw -- fitting a text label into a plotted polygon. Instead of some kind of elaborate closed solution, the method used by master programmer Bob Russel was to pick a random point inside the polygon, see if the label would fit starting at that point, repeat until it did. He said it was both simpler and faster than the obvious hard way. I like Monte Carlo methods. I distinctly remember the first use I ever saw — fitting a text label into a plotted polygon. Instead of some kind of elaborate closed solution, the method used by master programmer Bob Russel was to pick a random point inside the polygon, see if the label would fit starting at that point, repeat until it did. He said it was both simpler and faster than the obvious hard way.

]]> http://stephenskory.com/2008/02/12/monte-carlo-whoopass/comment-page-1#comment-3186 Kid Nebraska Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:47:16 +0000 http://stephenskory.com/2008/02/12/monte-carlo-whoopass#comment-3186 Nice! I applaud posts with Monte-Carlo on principle. One quibble, though: it will take "many" more, not "much" more, data points to achieve that envied smooth fit. Nice! I applaud posts with Monte-Carlo on principle. One quibble, though: it will take “many” more, not “much” more, data points to achieve that envied smooth fit.

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