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Batman has Begun
I went to see Batman Begins last night.

What can I say - but wow! It's as pure a piece of entertainment as I've ever seen. Come to think of it, I'm not sure how it could have been more entertaining.

It's also the first film I've seen at the cinema where the audience spontaneously applauded at the end.

Moral of the story: see the film!
17 June, 2005 at 15:48 0 Comments
Solving cracks in geomipmapping - the wrong way...

This is my first attempt at solving the "cracks" problem of geomipmapping. Please bear in mind that I've just been coding for the whole evening without actually running it...

I'll be putting up a dedicated website for Torq2 soon, with pages explaining how it all works, including a description of how I'm implementing geomipmapping, in case it's useful for anybody.

I know there's a lot of tutorials out there about it, but I've found that very few of them actually get down to the nitty gritty - such as how to work out the indices for patches when joining them to neighbouring patches of different LOD...

03 June, 2005 at 23:47 1 Comment
Torq2

My final year project for my computer science degree was writing a 3D car simulatar in both C# and C++, in order to compare the performance.

While I was reasonably happy with the marks I got for it, I wasn't that happy with the actual simulator, so I've decided to rewrite it from scratch.

Hence, this is the inaugural post for Torq2. It will feature a free-roaming landscape, and a fairly advanced physics system, once it's finished.

As you can see from this screenshot, it's at a fairly primitive stage at the moment - I only started writing it a week ago.

So far, I have a basic implementation of geomipmapping up and running, although I still have to fix the problems with cracks.

01 June, 2005 at 19:31 3 Comments
And we begin...
After previous abortive attempts at getting a regular blog going (including a protracted design and build of my own personal blogging software, which I didn't quite finish) I have decided the best way to get started is to do it the easy way - use somebody else's blogging site.

So here we are. Hello! I plan to use this blog to tell the world about my interests, my job, my snippets of wisdom (yeah right), and my various projects.

My current project is writing a 3D car simulator, so I'll be blogging more about that in the next few weeks.
01 June, 2005 at 19:09 0 Comments