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Timelapse!

Posted by bikko
Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Timelapse video (37 MB AVI), with music: “Fable (Message Version)” by Robert Miles. It synchs up eerily well — the video starts to really pick up a minute in when I was doing a ton of work and had increased “shutter speed” of the timelapse.

More of a learning experience…

Posted by bikko
Sunday, August 10th, 2008

I chose to use Python with PyGame, PyOpenGL, and PyODE. (I had only written about one Python program, and had only written one OpenGL program in C++…)

The idea was a Jenga-like tower of bricks that you must defend from owls who fly by and remove pieces. It would topple with realistic physics.

Tall, proud tower:
Tall tower before adding \

PyODE (well, ODE itself I believe) unfortunately is apparently not up to the task of a Jenga tower. If I created more than about 8 layers of Jenga bricks, I’d get a segfault somewhere within the collision detection code.

I shortened the Jenga tower and PyODE stopped crashing.

Applying a force to one of the bricks seems not to break the tower… I think I’m just doing something wrong there, though. But PyODE slows down the program to the “watching ice melt” realm.

Pitifully short tower:
with PyODE and grass

I will try to throw together a 2D version of the game idea using Pymunk today, but with less than 11 hours, I may not submit anything.

Either way: a great, fun learning experience!

belated pics

Posted by bikko
Saturday, August 9th, 2008

My workstation, including my crazy chair, the Swopper.
workstation

Champaign grapes from Trader Joe’s.
grapes

Couldn’t take the pic quickly enough!
was-mexican-food

Peanut butter jelly time!
peanut butter jelly time!

Big, gravity-defying water mug:
water mug

I made breakfast (scrambled eggs with spinach and cheese) for my wife and myself:
breakfast


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