To fix this, let’s just copy and paste the leaf bunch and flip it vertically. Unfortunately, that leaves our leaves looking particularly bad on the bottom. Go ahead and give that trunk a brown color. You should end up with something that looks like the tree below. Select both the tree and the shape you just drew and use Path > Division. Now we need to chop some wood! Just grab the Pen tool and draw a shape that we’ll use to roughly separate the leaves from the trunk. This will convert this into a much more simple shape. Make sure you select your tree and head up to Path > Stroke to Path. andrewgelman.Since there’s so much detail here, it’s probably running pretty slow.

- An excellent project devoted to improving scientific software development.

JANAF Tables - Set of thermodynamic tables for many common compounds (including some simple minerals).

- General information on many common minerals.Crystallography Open Database - A broad collection of crystal structures useful for mineral physics calculations.git Tutorial - A more detailed guide to the most important git commands.git for Beginners - An excellent introduction to version control with git, why you need it, and how to use it.Inkscape - An open source tool for drawing useful for creating conference posters (alternative to Adobe Illustrator).LaTeX wiki - A detailed guide to LaTeX for writing documents (alternative to Microsoft Word).SciPy - A collection of open-source packages for scientific research using Python (alternative to Matlab).Abinit - An open-source Density Functional Theory code useful for theoretical mineral physics studies.LAMMPS MD Simulator - An open-source empirical molecular dynamics simulator which is highly optimized for parallel computing that I use in my research./aswolf - host of some of my open software research projects.ENKI-portal - ENKI is a collaborative, model-configuration and testing portal for tools in computational thermodynamics and fluid dynamics.Below are a set of links to resources that I contribute to and/or find useful in my day-to-day efforts:

Inkscape drawing a wolf