Saturday, April 25, 2009
King & I production
Last night was opening night of Christ the King's production of "The King & I"! I play Sir Edward Ramsay, and I have a monocle! And a real beard!
Character Modeling
So the assignment was to sketch out and model a character. This is Nell. She lives in a simulated city as part of an artificial intelligence experiment.
And this is the point where where I was instructed to follow a few tutorials (effectively start over). This was the end of week 2 of 4 weeks allocated for the project. So a few deep breaths and long days later...
And another week later:
And then I realized that we were limited to 6000 triangles, not 6000 polygons (each square "quad" has two triangles in it.) Some elective surgery later, and the final result:
...Whew!
And this is the point where where I was instructed to follow a few tutorials (effectively start over). This was the end of week 2 of 4 weeks allocated for the project. So a few deep breaths and long days later...
And another week later:
And then I realized that we were limited to 6000 triangles, not 6000 polygons (each square "quad" has two triangles in it.) Some elective surgery later, and the final result:
...Whew!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Graphviz
We're working with some complicated one-way branch logic at work recently, and I thought it'd be nice to visualize that as a flow chart.
Fortunately, someone's already done the hard work for me by making a program called Graphviz.
The script on the left produces the chart on the right.
Very handy!
www.graphviz.org
Also a weird coincidence that this comic was posted the same day... http://www.xkcd.com/518/
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Love Triangles, the game
The Love Triangles game. If the arrow keys don't work, you may have to click on it once to get keyboard focus.
This game is an experiment; it is an expression of the problems of dating in game form. Most "dating" games that exist now give you a limited (say 10) set of potential matches, and the game is answering questions the right way and doing the right thing to impress one of those 10. I wanted to explore the concept of "lots of fish in the sea" by creating a world with 2500 randomly generated potential matches. You simply don't have the time to evaluate all possible candidates.
Thoughts? Play Love Triangles Now!
Play Love Triangles Now!
Yes, I know the HTML link target is scary, but it's necessary to get Java applets on this blog without using your computer's resources until it's needed. If the link target looks like
This game is an experiment; it is an expression of the problems of dating in game form. Most "dating" games that exist now give you a limited (say 10) set of potential matches, and the game is answering questions the right way and doing the right thing to impress one of those 10. I wanted to explore the concept of "lots of fish in the sea" by creating a world with 2500 randomly generated potential matches. You simply don't have the time to evaluate all possible candidates.
Thoughts? Play Love Triangles Now!
Play Love Triangles Now!
Yes, I know the HTML link target is scary, but it's necessary to get Java applets on this blog without using your computer's resources until it's needed. If the link target looks like
http://www.adrive.com/home/downloadfile/4615a76783e767806957487c5324c1d86b54264f5e6cec36c9a3cbe1e9592b8d, then you're OK.
Bowser's Living Space
The assignment is: Pick an existing character from literature, movies, or games, and create a convincing living space for him/her. I chose Bowser, the villain of the Super Mario series of video games.
Each of these images is larger than appears here, click on them to see the full-size image.
Here's a mood board of prior material to give you a general sense of the character:
And here's my interpretation:
A view from the throne:
The requisite bridge over lava (notice the axe by the end) 
After crossing the bridge you come to the office and bedroom (that's Mario on the dartboard)
And a fly-through (the music is from Super Mario World, the Super Nintendo game):
Each of these images is larger than appears here, click on them to see the full-size image.
Here's a mood board of prior material to give you a general sense of the character:
And here's my interpretation:
A view from the throne:
The requisite bridge over lava (notice the axe by the end) 
After crossing the bridge you come to the office and bedroom (that's Mario on the dartboard)
And a fly-through (the music is from Super Mario World, the Super Nintendo game):Hello World
This blog follows the life and times (and projects) of the eponymous blogger.
Coming soon:
Coming soon:
- Bowser's 3D rendered living space
- Love Triangles browser game - A geometric expression of the dating game
- Various soapbox postings on game design
- Various soapbox postings on religion
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