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Animated Box
I’m very, very early on in the effort of this graphics/game test. But essentially I wanted to write down where I’m at with Xcode, OpenGL and learning C++. Learning C++ by starting with OpenGL is very...
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Parabola
My goal was to create the curves above. I knew if I could draw it then I could move a box or game object along that path. It took me about two weeks of casual time and many math questions posted to...
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Linked
I just finished a book called Linked. It’s a book about network theory and covers a wide variety of topics very quickly. It’s not incredibly long but I found it very interesting just because of...
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Boom Threads
I was messing around with threaded drawing. I really don’t know how much of an advantage this gives. I needed to figure out a way to animate something on the side for performance gains. I think this...
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Triangle Building
I got distracted while working on an actual game and started messing around with image recognition. I was greatly inspired by the LevelHead tech demo and thoroughly depressed by Julian Oliver’s...
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Elevator Sim [wip]
Car idle: Car called, doors open. Some shots from a work in progress. Elevator simulator. People are going to get on and off and ride the cars down. It’s an exercise in 3d, queuing, event detection...
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Parallax Clouds
Updated this a bit. Added sound, scanlines, mouse following, bird sprite thing. Made a few performance tweaks. It still runs a bit slow, it’s better under OpenGL but you can’t embed it in a web page....
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Elevator Sim update
Quick update about the elevator sim post. Currently the cars are animating fine. IE: you press 3 and car #1 goes to floor three, stops, opens the door and waits. If you press 1, the car closes the...
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Making Tatris
Backstory In my last job, I was a hourly contractor who had finished a project and was transitioning off to other things. By a chance of fortune, I had an opportunity to take some time off and do...
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Better tetris collision detection
As I said in the TODO part of the Making Tetris post, a better way to do collision detection is to have the blocks on the field be bits. This is typically what I saw in academic assignments and...
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Hollywood Security BS
I had watched Alicia Silverstone ‘hack’ a system recently and decided to make a mostly functional mock up like they do in the movies. I’m getting pretty comfortable in Processing and even though I...
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