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Difference between standard beta and unstandard beta distributions?
As i am new to blender i decided to learn by recreating some animations which have some interesting problems, and gain more knowledge about how tv intros are being done, collecting some parody intros to videos. I came across a simple yet troublesome effect , found no answer by googling or getting through tutorials and testing methods on this case led me to nowhere.     I attempted to recreate the animation above, especially  the extending/appearing/drawn white strip with "randomly" placed gaps , strip which travels just above surface , casting shadow.   Tried dynamic paint,( with alpha channel) image sequence texture but although effect was very similar, whole invisible strip was casting shadow being Z transparent, in places where white color haven't reached yet.  I tried bezier curves as well(vector mode) but it appears that taper cant profile part in squary way, or maybe i am missing something here.  Shape keys seem to hard way to go , while keeping whole animation of stripe "unrolling" at constant speed.  I tried as well putting an array of planes on the path but it is completely not what i attempt to achieved.   I will edit post and add some pictures tomorrow. Find all possible solutions of $$2^x + 3^y = z^2.$$    My approach.   First I substituted $x = 0$, and got the solution, then for $y = 0$. And for $x &gt;  0$ and $y &gt; 0$ , I just know the Pythagorean triple and got the solution as $(4,2,5)$ and $(4,2,-5)$. Please help me to solve it properly. Can't insert code in my beamer slide Add different materials to different parts of a mesh? How do you add more than one material to a mesh?   I have tried adding two materials to the object, and then assigning one of the materials to a vertex-group, but I could not find a place to assign it.  I am making a striped bouncy ball that I want to deform, so adding a different material by separating the mesh into different objects would not be ideal. Let $\{X_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$ be a sequence of random variables converging to a random variable $X$. Does this fact implies that $\lim\limits_{n\to \infty} EX_n = EX$?  If not, is there any other sufficient condition? Product of path connected spaces is path connected Will product of path connected topological spaces be necessarily path connected? Why or why not?  Give me some hints. Thank you. The shrine indicator (shrine detector? GPShrine?) has both visual and audio cues, so when I'm near a shrine, it beeps constantly. Unfortunately, I occasionally play the game near other humans who are engaged in their own activities, and my wife is decidedly unimpressed with this feature.   When I got the shrine indicator, I could have sworn that the dialogue said I could press [Y] to disable it... but pressing Y pulls out my weapon.   Ideally, I'd like to just make it stop beeping, but stay on for visual cues. But I'll settle for being able to turn it off entirely at times. How can I make a time delay in Python? My computer only has one USB-C port and I want to connect multiple USB-C devices to it.  I have trawled through Amazon but am amazed that I cannot find a single one. There are many hubs that have USB 3.1 USB-A ports but not USB-C ones.  Is there a limitation in the spec that prevents this being possible? How do I grant sudo privileges to an existing user? I want to grant a newly created user sudo privileges in Ubuntu.  I tried  sudo adduser hduser admin   but it says no admin group exists. How can I do it? I am looking to set up Ubuntu Server as a headless NAS for my home. I would like to have file storage there, as well as a central hub for my MP3s and pictures.  What are the best packages out there to handle this? Can someone post a link to a good tutorial or post some tips?  One constraint I have is that it has to be Windows 7 friendly. By that I mean the shares and streaming should work for a Windows machine. How can I get a significant overall ANOVA but no significant pairwise differences with Tukey's procedure? I'm attempting to make an elevation profile from a DEM in ArcMap using the Interpolate Line tool.  I've done this before, and it has worked great--basically I just draw a line with Interpolate Line, then click Profile Graph to get the elevation profile.  However, for some reason, it's not working now: when I draw out my line, nothing shows up on the map.  I don't get a line, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.  I've searched online for an answer, but to no avail.    Any tips? Is ignoring emails acceptable in academia? As a grad student, I just find it tremendously frustrating when emails are ignored by faculty (both at my institution and at other places). Is this acceptable? I'd be content with a simple response with one line along the lines of "I have read this email and am busy right now, will respond in X days when I can write a more detailed email." I understand that, as a first year student in my field, I'm not really in a position to request anything of anyone, but it just seems like common decency.  Instead, I never hear back, as if my email has been jettisoned off into oblivion. Why does the speed of light in vacuum have no uncertainty? I could understand that the definition of a second wouldn't have an uncertainty when related to the transition of the Cs atom, so it doesn't have an error because it's an absolute reference and we measure other stuff using the physical definition of a second, like atomic clocks do.  But why doesn't the speed of light have uncertainty? Isn't the speed of light something that's measured physically?  Check out that . Doesn't the end of Looper create a time paradox? I guess this is more a question about the nature of time travel more than anything else.  At the end of the movie,      Joe shoots himself in a field and changes the course of history.   Does this create a paradox as it changes the history that led up to that point?      If his future self had never existed he'd never have gone on the mission he did and thus he never would have ended up in the field.   Once he did what he did, he could no longer have done it, and so theoretically, time and space should have just folded in on itself and popped out of existence.  Is there something I'm missing that would explain how the movie could have ended where it did without the events at the beginning to lead it there? Well the question is to solve for $x$ in $$a^x+b^x=c \tag{a,b,c are constants}$$   Well as of me, I tried to put $\ln{}$ on both sides which does not seem to help. Apart from this I don't seem to have any other way to solve it.   I turned to WolframAlpha and the solution which was given was : $$x=\dfrac{-i(2\pi n +\pi)}{\ln{a}-\ln{b}} , {n \in \mathbb{Z}}$$  And if $n=0$ $$x=\dfrac{-i\pi}{\ln{a}-\ln{b}}$$  The only thing I am able to recognize is $e^{i\pi}=1$ ... i guess is used.  Link :   So I see that $x$ is independent of the constant $c$.  So how to solve it? Please help...Thanks!    EDIT - It seems that WolframAlpha is taking $c=0$ as suggested by Donkey_2009. And when i write "Solve for x in a^x + b^x = k" it is not returning anything. So are you guys aware of a method to solve this? Also are you guys aware of any other website/software like WA?    P.S. - Also I see that IF we know the values of $a,b,c$ resulting in something like $2^x+3^x=100$ , then Newton's method is the only method I am aware of that can solve it...  Any other suggestions? Proving that the difference of the terms of a sequence, multiplied by $n$ converge Remove particularly tricky items from context menu I've found various sources of info about removing these annoying things which I never use... but I haven't succeeded in getting rid of the following.    (Avira-related:) - Scan selected files with Avira  (I believe all this is M$ crapware... I presume it's all been lovingly crafted so they're all impossible to remove. You never know, though: some super-uber-uber-geek might just have found a way) - Restore previous versions  - Cut - Copy - Delete  - Rename How to create Mist in Blender