Haskell is a great programming language and I have a lot of fun programming in it. I’ve been working fiddling around with a simple prototype for a board-game style game (more details on that later) and was figuring out how to draw a line connecting some positions on the game board. Specifically, I needed to […]
Consider the following C++ code snippet: bool UNIVERSE::Initialize(const std::string & assetpath, const std::string & shippath, const std::string & behaviorpath, MODELMANAGER & modelmanager, std::ostream & info_output, std::ostream & error_output) { if (LoadAssets(assetpath, modelmanager, error_output)) { info_output
I have bundled up the rigid body physics engine from VDrift into the joerigidbody library. This is a simple C++ rigid body physics library. See the link above for more info.
I wrote a simple, one-header serialization library and put it online here. The library allows you to load and save the state of a C++ object to a file, and comes with example text and binary formats.
I updated the VDrift wiki with a new analysis of various numerical integration methods. It provides some justification for using lower order integrators such as the Euler method. http://wiki.vdrift.net/Numerical_Integration
I’ve found joy in the standard C++ algorithm and functional headers. I finally found a nice, neat way to iterate through a container calling a specific function on all elements of the container! I used to do this sort of thing everywhere in my code: for (std::list ::iterator i = roads.begin(); i != roads.end(); i++) […]
After reading this article and being inspired, I decided to write a simple “reseatable_reference” class that’s sort of like boost::weak_ptr but lighter weight. The idea is that I often use pointers as reseatable references, since in C++ references cannot be reseated. So I created a reseatable_references class that’s basically a wrapper around a pointer but […]
After reading this article and being inspired, I decided to write a simple “optional” class that’s similar to boost::optional but lighter weight. The idea is that often I write functions which should return a value but which might not have a value to return — and for those cases, I should be able to specify […]
I architected all of my subsystems in the VDrift refactor to receive ostream objects that they use to output logging information/errors. This is convenient because it keeps all of my subsystems independent from a central logging class; all they have to know about is std::ostream. Of course, to get any advanced functionality out of this […]
I spent a little bit of time with the VDrift refactor code implementing this effect: http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/publikationen/2006/unsharp_masking/webseite/results.html It’s kind of like a cheap version of the Crysis SSAO that isn’t very convincing as AO, but when it’s applied lightly makes for a good improvement in apparent image quality. The improvement is especially noticeable with flat-shaded objects. […]