Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Web page with PhD work

I don't know why I took so much time to create a web page about my PhD research. However, it's better late than never, so I have just created one. It's not complete, but it is a beginning.

Visit the web page of my PhD research, which focused on Thesaurus-based 3D Shape Retrieval, T-b3DR for short. There you can find some information about my work and a couple of useful prototypes.

Thursday, December 04, 2008

LaTeX equation editor

I've been using a very useful tool for writing equations in LaTeX. Although it is quite easy to found on the internet, I notice that some of my colleagues did not know about it. Thus, I thought it might be a good idea to publicise it here.

So, if you're using LaTeX you should give a look at the LaTeX equation editor. It is simple, fast, and accurate. And you do not need to install anything, it runs on your web browser.

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Writing a number set in LaTeX

I needed to write the formal notation of a multi-dimensional dataset in my PhD dissertation. Since I'm using LaTeX and this dataset consists on a real number set I just have to use the mathbb font, provided by amsfonts or amssymb packages.

Thus, providing that the proper packages were included in the preamble of the document, I just had to use, in math mode:

\mathbb{R}^n


to obtain: