Under Ubuntu, sometimes when the NVIDIA drivers are installed, CMake cannot properly find OpenGL (specifically libGL.so). As a result, linking issues may occur. The easiest fix for this is to first create a symlink of nvidia-current to nvidia-xxx where xxx is the version of the current NVIDIA driver installed (e.g. nvidia-387) . Then create a …
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Jun 26
Visual Studio Setup Blocked or Can’t Uninstall
For some reason a Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition installation I had on one of my machines was experiencing problems: solution files were not loading properly, and what’s worse is that installation instance had gone totally missing from “Uninstall a Program” in Windows Control Panel. Also, every time I tried running the setup file vs_community.exe …
Mar 19
Create Bootable USB Flash Drive from ISO Image (with UEFI Support)
Update: If you’re looking for Windows 10 UEFI installation, take a look at the addendum at the end of the post! Although there are a lot of applications for creating a bootable flash drive using an ISO image (such as UNetBootin), not many of them support the creation of a bootable flash drive that can be used …
Mar 10
Align Depth and Color Frames – Depth and RGB Registration
Sometimes it is necessary to create a point cloud from a given depth and color (RGB) frame. This is especially the case when a scene is captured using depth cameras such as Kinect. The process of aligning the depth and the RGB frame is called “registration” and it is very easy to do (and the …
Mar 09
C++ Function in Header throws Linker “already defined” Errors
If you define a function in the global namespace in a C++ header file and encounter linker errors (complaining about the function already defined elsewhere), there’s a simple fix! Simply mark the function as inline. This will prevent the duplication of the function in other source files. Note that using inclusion guards does not solve …
Mar 09
Undo a Git Commit on GitHub
In case you’ve pushed an unwanted commit to GitHub (or any upstream Git repository), you can simply undo it. To do so, move the HEAD to the commit that you want to undo to and then run the following command: git push -f origin HEAD^:master
Jan 26
SimpleScalar Installation Under Windows
Installing the SimpleScalar simulator is relatively straightforward under Linux. For Windows installation, the Cygwin toolchain is required. Grab the latest Cygwin installer (setup-x86_64) from here: https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe (note that this is intended for 64-bit machines). After running the installer, just proceed through the wizard. The default installation directory is C:\cygwin64. When selecting a mirror website, usually mirrors.kernel.org is the …
Jul 07
Git: Merge Specific Commit from Another Branch to Main Branch
Let’s say that in your git repository, you have a master branch and an experimental branch. You’ve fixed a bug on file A on the experimental branch and you would like to commit that fix to the master branch. This is possible using the git cherry-pick command. First, switch to the experimental branch and execute git log. Take …
Jun 30
3D Line Fitting in 5 Easy Steps with SVD
Least squares fit is used for 2D line fitting. In 3D space, the line is called 3D Orthogonal Distance Regression (ODR) line. The line can be easily found in 3D using SVD (singular value decomposition). Assuming that we have a bunch of 3D points (x0, y0, z0) to (xn, yn, zn), the algorithm (in MATLAB) is as follows: …
Jun 26
Intersection of a Ray and a Line Segment in 3D
This page contains methods for performing various intersection tests. Although it does not have an entry for ray vs. line segment intersection, I tried the suggested ray vs. ray intersection test (page 782 of Real-Time Rendering 3rd Edition) and it did not work in my case. I looked around quite a bit and based on an …
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