ashgromnies posted:

How do you learn to do stuff like vertex shaders? I assume there's an "accepted" way of doing it. I'm really curious about all this neat graphics programming after spending years in Linux command-line hell.

SuperFurryAnimal posted:

I've written a decent summary of the simulation as it currently stands, but I can't get to it at the moment - I'll post it in the next few days.

Basically, the core technologies are a fully physically simulated figure (rigid body hierarchy with powered joints), inverse dynamics (limb movements), robotic/ethology inspired gait controllers, and a lot of self-organisation. The animation is a result of the (mostly indirect) feedback between many self-regulating simulatory components, which all act in some way to maintain balance.

Sterra posted:

A small java application designed because my hand tends to hurt after clicking the mouse for a while.

Lumpy posted:

I'll stop obsessing now.

cletus42o posted:

tripwire posted:

As someone who knows only the smallest bit about haskell, what would be different about writing a game of life implementation in it as opposed to in C?

hexadecimal posted:

I hate Second Life, I would have just made my own viewer, but I was made to use SL

terminatusx posted:

C&C

Supervillin posted:

Saw that I had 50k+ unique visitors last year on my lovely avatar scraper, so I figured if people use it I should give it a facelift. SAARS 2.0:
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Supervillin posted:

Edit: All of the above's fixed. Will take a look into the image headers and see if I can put in the creation/mod times in the image alt or title or something useful.

BeefofAges posted:

Click here for the full 956x518 image.

A crossplatform (Windows and OS X - Linux support shouldn't be hard to add in the future) Python hard drive benchmark. Generates files on one drive, uses the operating system's shell to transfer them to the other drive, then saves the results to a .csv and plots the data using matplotlib. It's intended to simulate a real drag-and-drop file transfer as closely as possible. The only thing left to do is package it so that you don't have to install python, matplotlib, numpy, and pywin32 to use it.

I've been thinking of making a thread to ask people to beta test it, because there are about a million different use cases and I haven't had time to try all of them.

Factor Mystic posted:

Guess which one of these I designed

Factor Mystic posted:

Comprehensive file association editor for windows, with focus on usability. Designed for Vista, plays nice with UAC, but most file association stuff can be set as a user preference anyway. I'll be posting a thread in SH/SC for feedback when it's done.

Fecotourist posted:

Does the information in this picture uniquely determine the arrangement of the squares on the other side? You'd think that the opposite corner, for example, could have any of 3 orientations, but maybe there are some subtle constraints.
I also wonder if you're finding indiviual colored squares without much context, or if you start by estimating the overall orientation of the whole Rubik's cube and use that for finding the squares.

Factor Mystic posted:

Thanks for the devkey!

Belgarath posted:

Factor Mystic's Default Programs Editor made it onto Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/5339059/default-programs-editor-changes-file-associations-with-ease

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It's a powerful, slick utility that probably should have been included in Windows by default.

Screeb posted:

What's the hue if there are multiple routes to the same location? Or does it only work for mazes with one path to each location?

Jo posted:

I'm guessing it uses the lowest distance to the location, unless he's using something other than A*.

Ugg boots posted:

A* finds the least cost from one node to one of a set of goal nodes.

wlievens posted:

I always thought that the most frequently used A* heuristic would be euclidian distance, either in a grid or in a graph. And that is admissable. I'd love to see realistic examples of the contrary!

tripwire posted:

openGL is hard

tripwire posted:

I know the genetic algorithm itself works because when I switch the rendering engine back to cairo it works like normal again.

SlightlyMadman posted:

Neat! Is this for creating convincing-looking alien languages or something?

Strumpy posted:

Strumpy posted:

Finished off some procedural planet stuff I was working on. It's not amazing but it's 'fit for purpose'. I realised I was spending more time on this stuff then on gameplay for my game... I'll probably iterate on this a bit more at a later date.

All terrain and clouds are procedural and generated with perlin noise.

OneEightHundred posted:

This is pretty awesome, have you considered trying to make it stand-alone for game integration if it's capable of running in real time?

Sebbe posted:

I've been working a bit on some sorting algorithm visualization, á la these Java ones.

It's done in Python with PyGame, available on github if you're curious; or you could just watch an example of it running quicksort without having to download anything:

danishcake posted:

Put this Android live wallpaper on the market over the weekend:




It's called LiveMaze

wacky posted:

This might be a dumb question but I can't tell if that is a real city or not. What city is it? Cityscapes are so effing cool and they tie in perfectly to the cyberpunk (dream) lifestyle of the programmer

Huragok posted:

So I'm developing a numerical processing tool IN THE CLOUD:

FeloniousDrunk posted:

I'm tweaking and massaging a zoomy image viewer, initially for newspapers but intended to become a general viewer for large images and PDFs. It's all jQuery on the client side, and a godawful mess of ghostscript, pdftools, and stuff I've forgotten about on the back end.

Dr. Citan Uzuki posted:

Any suggestions or advice is appreciated

Thermopyle posted:

I've never done any GUI stuff, so this is a learning experience for me, but...

duck monster posted:

What I did was had a list of various machines that took multiple inputs and had multipe outputs, each machine would take a certain number of goods of type a and b, and poo poo out a certain number of x and maybe z. (Ie goods+waste). You could then hook the inputs and outputs together to create factories. So you might have a refiner that takes in iron ore and shits out iron, hook it to another machine that makes cogs and there might be a bunch of these machines that hook together to feed a spaceship engine plant, and these might then hook together with a chasis plant and a control systems plant to make a spacecraft. This could then be plugged into a plant that upgrades spaceships into a particular type of spaceship, and so on.

mintskoal posted:

Agreed, however Google will complain if you do a big email pull like that. Also, if a heavy user scanned 30 days of inbox and trash, it could potentially be thousands of messages at a time. I'd love to support that but I can't rely on Google to allow it. For instance, 14 days of trash and inbox in my account is 544 messages. Takes about 3 minutes to process.