Everything that doesn’t fit into any other category.
http://www.guardian.co.uk…1510566,00.html
Richard Stallman wrote an article for the Guardian in which he exposes the absurdity of software patent laws by applying them to other large bodies of writing: classical literature. A good read. It’s disturbing that I can actually imagine planning a software project, worrying about the patent issues, and thinking “this is too much trouble, I just won’t bother writing it”.
In between thesis stuff, I was playing with Inkscape today and put this together.
I have a few unresolved problems with gradients. Specifically, are all gradients “alpha gradients”? I just want a fade from one opaque colour to another, but in order to do that I have to make a white copy of the shape and put it underneath the original. Why? why? (Probably because there is something obvious that I am missing).
Update: I’m using .40 (default under Ubuntu), I’ll try gradient stuff under .41 instead. Apparantly there are significant updates in just that .01.
http://www.pqhp.com/cmp/gdctv/
I just watched Keita Takahashi’s presentation on Katamari Damacy. It included humourous anecdotes from his time in Art College including what are possibly the greatest coffee table, tissue box, and plant pot ever made. Highly recommended.
I’m going to check out Will Wright’s Spore presentation and see if it lives up (down?) to Penny Arcade’s commentry. It looks like it will be in stark contrast to Takahashi’s. Seriously, one game is based on something as simple as “you roll a ball” and the other is based on “you start and evolve life on your own planet and then others”.
Update: Will Wright’s “Spore” looks excellent. Takahashi said something about different styles of games, and that he wants to be the rock/punk game designer. Wright is definately a science-geek game designer. I think there’s room in the world for both.
I started on an Antiquities logo. It needs something in the background. I was thinking maybe… a pile of treasure including jewels, pearl necklaces, paintings, an obsidian cat, and some sort of golden goblet.
http://www.digiment.no/in…downloads&sub=2
Digimet has released under the GPL the source code for two of their J2ME games. It might be worth looking into for Antiquities.
Saw Batman Begins. It was better than recent Batman movies, but that isn’t saying much in itself. It was more “gritty”, but not as much as I expected. Some bits still had a little too much of a “this will sell toys” feel, and Christian Bale looked less badass when he was dressed up as Batman (compared to, say, his ninja suit… or even his business suit).
Overall the movie was worthwhile. Working within the superhero genre is a bit of a blessing and a curse. Fans (myself included) will go and see it because it’s based on a comic book they like. On the other hand, comic book stories sometimes look odd when illustrated in what otherwise looks like “real life”.
http://www.theregister.co…_360_win_japan/
First dellusional performance numbers from Sony and now dellusional sales predictions from Microsoft. I suppose this can be considered a “theoretical maximum”.
http://www.siggraph.org/p…r+desc&rd=brief
I was searching for an OpenGL reference and this came up:
Very odd.
http://wiki.vislab.usyd.e…eoCreationGuide
I saw Jim’s XG page and Jason’s plant animation page and thought that you guys might be interested in some GL video stuff that I’ve been working on (around half-way down the linked page). It makes it *much* easier to make movies for publications (or the wiki page!).
http://people.vislab.usyd.edu.au/~nickl/
Man, I am soooo deep.
I was playing around with the webcam and it produces some cool pixelated images, so I put one up. It looks pretty wanky though. I think I’ll draw a moustache and glasses on it tomorrow.