May
19
May
18
30 Day Challenge: Day 5
Today on a wall I came across these piece of graffiti, it’s rather philosophical and I like it.
May
17
30 Day Challenge: Day 4
The photo for today is this money eating machine, everyday that I drive to work in Middlesborough I plunge £3 into this machine to get a small piece of paper. It’s a little crazy when you stop and think about it. The amount of money which the owners of the road in this case the council, is estimated round +£30,00 a year!!
Quick calculation:
£3 per car per day (if two cars had half a day each it would be more)
50 x 3 = 150 (50 cars in the street)
5 x 150 = 750 (5 days a week)
750 x 50 = 37500 (50 weeks of the year)
Grand Total = £37,500!
I would say that they do not spend that much money on one small street over the year, someone is getting a good deal… and it’s not the driver!
May
17
30 Day Challenge: Day 3
Here is the photo take on day three, I came across the windmill whilst jogging through my local park (Heaton Park).
May
15
30 Day Challenge: Day 2
Here is my day two photo, its of a stone head sculptor which is located outside my office in Middlesbrough. I rather like it, although I would like it better in a nice polished stone, but that just my option.
May
14
30 Day Challenge: Day 1
Here is my photo from day one, this is my house number in Newcastle. Pretty basic I know but it’s defiantly a place I will remember for a long time
May
13
30 Day Do It Challenge!
The 30 Day Do It, is an idea I stumbled upon when I was one day watching some Ted talks. The talk by Matt Cutt stated how he had come up with challenging himself for 30 days at a time. The idea is that for 30 days you do something that you have always wanted to do, or that you think will be difficult to achieve. Like Matt said, it’s only 30 days right? The bigger idea is that the next 30 days are going to pass if you like it or not, so you might as well do something which you will remember for a long time.
So.. The first challenge I am going to take on is one which Matt suggested himself, take a memorable photograph each day.
Why not go watch the original talk and be inspired to start your first 30 day challenge!
http://30daydoit.com/matt-cutts-ted-talk-on-the-30-day-do-it/
Feb
24
Team Project
Hello all,
The current project I am working on at University is a team project which requires us to develop a game in teams of seven in 7 weeks. The specification for the game is a herding eco-system game, were you control a character either in a first person view or over head view, with creatures which follow or flock around the main character. As a team we have setup a development site to show our progression over the weeks and post videos of the game. The site can be found: Level Nine Games.
Feb
19
Graphic and Physics Demo
Hello all,
Last term on my Computer Game Engineering course we studying openGL real-time graphic and game technologies which included game physics. The spec for the coursework was to implement a a Christmas scene with baubles which reflected the scene around it and become less skinny over time. In the demo I have also added multiple light sources and a snow partial emitter all coded in C++ and openGL.
In the specification for the physics demo we were asked to take our Christmas scene and added physics, so that you could fire baubles and make them collide with over baubles in the scene. This uses Euler’s integration and Newton’s Laws, with the help of collision detection and collision response. I have implemented two types of response: impulses and springs which are shown in the videos.
Below are a couple of videos showing the graphics and physics demo in action, all are rendered in real-time at 60 FPS.
Feb
06
Success in BUCS Waterpolo 2011-2012
Since started at Newcastle Uni in September I have been playing and training with their men’s water polo game. We have some great successes and have just finished at the top of our league and guaranteed our self a place in the semi-finals. The semi-finals are taking place in just twenty days, were we play: Nottingham, Sheffield and St. Andrews in a round robin tournament.
