Plan D

The once mysterious origin of the phrase.

( via Bitworking )

Testing terrain normal calculations, among other things.

A bit of progress under the covers of the terrain code, with added diagnostics and basic frustum culling.

With the terrain divided into patches, I can start testing different culling algorithms.

Working on dividing the terrain into patches and adding some diagnostics code, which is taking longer than expected :(

An amazing misuse of Mugen

The next big step in camera tech? Post-processing a raw sensor capture to simulate a lens in a digital camera

I’m starting to get some nice results from a terrain generator I wrote on Anzac day.

To make a custom text formatter with WPF you have to implement a TextSource class. There are just three methods to override:

• GetTextRun
• GetPrecedingText
• GetTextEffectCharacterIndexFromTextSourceCharacterIndex (hmmm…)

It looks like the ‘Smalltalk by Example’ book would be a good way to learn Smalltalk. I downloaded Squeak again, it’s had a bit of a makeover since the last time I used it. I really spend too much time looking at languages these days – if only real languages were as easy to pick up.