Most Interesting Application/Algorithm. | The Coffeehouse

SecretSoftware
Code to live, but Live to code.

What is the most interesting application, and/or algorithm you have ever seen in your life?

Please Share! Big Smile

Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything

The self division of a single cell....

I've got 5 products of that running around.

SecretSoftware
Code to live, but Live to code.

Cybermagellan wrote:
The self division of a single cell....

I've got 5 products of that running around.

Cool. But I was thinking about in the digital world.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

SecretSoftware wrote:

Cybermagellan wrote:The self division of a single cell....

I've got 5 products of that running around.

Cool. But I was thinking about in the digital world.

A provocative post detection algorithm.

Okay, it hasn't been developed yet, but I can think of a number of uses.

SecretSoftware
Code to live, but Live to code.

W3bbo wrote:

SecretSoftware wrote:
Cybermagellan wrote:The self division of a single cell....

I've got 5 products of that running around.

Cool. But I was thinking about in the digital world.

A provocative post detection algorithm.

Okay, it hasn't been developed yet, but I can think of a number of uses.

LOL. Explain some of the uses.

The most interesting for me would be a slot machine, like those in Casinos. Written in C# .NET with realistic graphics.

As for algorithms. The most interesting I have seen, has to do with Bio-Informatics stuff, where you extrapolate evolutionary trends of a species of fruit flies, and see how a fruit fly would look like in a billion years from now.

esoteric
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Nothing in particular. In general,
- Physical modelling (any form, be it musical instruments or life)
- Functional algorithms and datastructures for graphics; In the semi-imperative world I'm quite fond of WPF and the move towards more structured and powerful Windows graphics systems
- Functional models of user-interfaces and user-interaction
- Lastly, knowledge representation and knowledge inference (e.g. RDF/OWL frameworks, Conceptual Graphs, etc.)

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

Mine hasn't changed since I asked pretty much the same question almost exactly a year ago Smiley

Herbie

CodeMonk

I'm not sure where I got it from maybe a DOS 2.0 .bas file that had real heavy math I didn't understand but I was able to figure out the inputs and outputs and wrote a wrapper around it into a simple game. Character based (25x40/80) of course. I've still got the source code.

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