glibberish.

(Click on stuff to see more detail.)

This is from last semester, my attempts in figuring out how to translate some image processing problems into code, and its solutions. Too much thinking involved… but it worked. All’s well that ends well.

Fast forward this semester, now doing a program for computer graphics class. At this point I am getting the hang of coding in object-oriented fashion, so while still a challenge and even harder than the last, this felt more fun to do. Note also that I used the EEE PC for this project.

Bender! Although not quite complete, that’s him. This is my latest project for computer graphics, and is actually a 3D model with lighting, texture maps, etc. The cool thing with it is: no GUI! No 3D Studio Max or anything of the sort. All done in code using OpenGL (native and GLUT primitives), and compiled, at first, using Visual C++. I needed to use Windows because the project will be checked using said compiler. With some code adjustments, I was able to port the progam to Linux, this time using GCC (or rather, g++ as the extension for C++). The screencast shown here is already on Linux, and using the KDevelop IDE for easy editing and building.

If I could help it I would have built the entire thing on Linux. Although I would have to admit, the Visual Studio IDE is nifty for development work. (And KDevelop’s not bad, either.)

Whut the hey, I am doing some programmer-speak! That’s because I really am starting to love computer science. I’m now seriously contemplating on forking out into this field of IT. Master of Science in Computer Science? Very tempting.

Finally, just a show of my mini-library collection in my HK home (the massive rest is in Manila, of course). From left to right:

The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
The Hobbit (70th Anniversary Edition) (J.R.R. Tolkien)
One Human Minute (Stanislaw Lem)
The Futurological Congress (Stanislaw Lem)
Star Diaries (Stanislaw Lem)
Peace on Earth (Stanislaw Lem)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling)
Solaris (Criterion Collection DVD) (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (DVD) (Martin Scorsese)
Unreal Tournament III (PC Game)
Smartbomb (Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby)
The Lonely Planet Hong Kong & Macau
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (wow, never used!)

and the two books up front are borrowed from the uni library:

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
Microworlds (Stanislaw Lem)

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