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Dabbling and babbling

Monday, October 29, 2007

Auto-zooming view

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This week I started by trying to improve my powered-landing cutoff elevation by using the correct equation for gravitational acceleration as...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Trajectory Feedback

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This week I've been working on feedback in my lunar lander program. The screenshot is not terribly clear. The ugly disc on the bottom i...
Monday, October 15, 2007

Throttling Experiments

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This week I returned to my lunar lander project. The Lunar Lander family of games is ancient (i.e. as old as me), but I've always found...
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Monday, October 8, 2007

Forcing a window to maintain a particular aspect ratio

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This is a piece of code I removed from my framework recently. I first wrote something like this many years ago, back when computer monitors...

Subdivision curve planet

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My week of vacation was a bit of an adventure. An old friend of ours went into labor five weeks early so we took care of her three-year-old...
Monday, October 1, 2007

Riding the bus

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I'm vacationing this week, but not going anywhere in particular. Today and tomorrow I'm looking after my daughter while my wife goe...
Monday, September 24, 2007

Even Less

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I've spent my free time this week playing Metroid Prime 3, and trying to resolve my computer situation. Last weekend I bought an eMachin...
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James McNeill
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