Alive and Kicking

Well, I decided to post this just to remind Planet Earth that I'm still alive. I just handed in my IT SBA today, and I have some more lab reports due on Monday.

Still, I feel pretty prepared for the exams. I have English first on Monday(piece of cake), then on Thursday, I have the long papers for Chemistry and Biology. In between I have a lot of free time to swat :).

Anyway yeah, thats about it, nothing particularly new or interesting.

The Last Leg

Its so close. I can taste it. The tension is killing me. I'm on the home stretch. The exams are about to start. I feel really ready for them, I just need to brush up on some MORE Biology and Literature. I feel so good right now, thinking about myself makes me feel...special lol.

I really am prepared. This is the taste of victory. Victory is like sex, only that you don't need protection lol.

Oh well, enough creepy talk. I decided to show some game related stuff. If anyone who reads this has ever played Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, you know its one of best FPS out now. (Apart from Crysis and Halo 3 of course, and my yet unnamed project, which doesn't really count, since its not coming out for now. :P)



I suppose that after exams, the first thing I'll do is write some Irrlicht tutorials and some openGL ones. Keep the $$$$ coming in, you know what I'm saying?

See ya!!

YAAAH TRICK YAAAH!

I love that damn video!!!! Most people say Soulja Boy sucks, and I (sorta) agree. But this song is just so positive, and its one of the funniest music videos I've seen for a long time. This time, you just can't hate on Soulja Boy. The part with throw some D's on it was pretty clever, and shows that even if he can't rap, he at least knows his puns :).

I really wouldn't have known about it, if a friend of mine hadn't started saying YAA BITCH YAA! as a response to every question. A typical conversation between us now looks like:

Me : Hey man, whats up? You ok?
Him : YAAAH BITCH YAAAH!
Me : Okay then. Have you seen Clive around?
Him : NAAH BITCH NAAH!
Me : Right. Umm, I'm going to eat lunch now, what do you want on your chicken?
Him : THROW SOME D'S ON THAT!!!
Me : Uh-huh, ketchup it is.
Him : YAAAH BITCH YAAAH!
Me : Someone, please kill me.
Him : YAAAH BITCH YAAAH!
Me : GET OUTTA MY FACE!!!

As for mock exams, the studying isn't going badly. I think I've done a lot of Biology, so now I've just got to get in some Chemistry and English Literature. As usual, Physics and Add Maths are not a problem.

I haven't started work on LunaScene though. Go cry in a dark corner somewhere.

On a more serious note, it seems like Lupe Fiasco might take over Talib's place in the rap game. Check this:



I love the way the vocals of Matthew and Lupe contrast. I want Matthew's voice. It would be so cool...but screw it, you can't always get what you want.

Gavin out. Over.

Friction and Electrostatics

I am as sick as a dog as I write this blog post. I woke up this morning at 5:30 with the most spectacular headache...it was like an...umm... acid trip!! I went back to sleep after taking some medication and woke up at 9, feeling a bit better, although my temperature was still high. I ate a bit and drank a lot(no pepsi this time, guys!) and settled down for a bit, while studying physics.

When I was studying physics, I ran into Coloumb's law. For the less physically enlightened among us, Coloumb's Law states that:

The force between two charges is inversely proportional to the distance between them, and directly proportional to their magnitudes.

In other words:

F = (Q1 * Q2)/ d

where F is the force produced, Q1 and Q2 are both different charges and d is the distance between those two charges.

So, you ask, how does this sloppy physics lesson concern the average retarded chump?

Well, it doesn't.

It just shows that I'm above you mortals. Just kidding. I was bored, so I went onto Wikipedia to look and see if there was a vector form. Turns out there was.

So I decided to go and create a small, utterly useless program that shows Coloumb's Law in action. It consists of a box and sphere. The box represents an electric field, and the sphere represents a charged object in the field. The box is always positively charged, while the charge of the sphere can be changed using the left mouse button. The camera can be rotated around the field so you can see it better, by using the left and right arrow keys.

Please note that I programmed this thing when my body temperature was causing forest fires in my head, so although its pretty much bug free, the source code is too messy to repost here. Instead, I'll just provide the link for the executable. It uses Irrlicht with the openGL video driver, as most of my other programs do.

The link is located under Random Programs. Grab it and go!!!

You might also have noticed that I changed the theme and layout of the blog. I figured it was about time for a change of scenery, you know? I'll probably do it about every 4 months.

That will be all, fellow human.

See ya,
Gavin

P.S. Oh, by the way, I know you guys were all shocked at the last post, and most of you couldn't believe what you saw (yeah Sparky A.K.A. Christopher Backfista, I'm talking to you). So for the pure shock value of it, here's the image again:



Congratulations, perv. Sparky, you might want to wipe that stuff off your monitor, drool or otherwise.(Ewwww....grosss.....)

Dancing in My Own Blood

No, this post has nothing to do with the title. In fact, this post is actually a programming post.

You see, yesterday, I finished LunaLib's basic math routines. Yup, you heard that right. Matrix multiplication, matrix inversion, vector cross products, basic point in polygon tests, EVERYTHING!!!

So now, I have to work on LunaScene, which I have a gut feeling I forgot to mention. LunaScene is a scenegraph with a built in physics engine, which as you all might guess, needs more work. Advanced collision detection, collision response, etc... I have my work cut out for me. But still, it's going to actually be fun.

After I finish LunaScene and have a working demo, I'll probably work on optimization of LunaLib.

I'm going to have hell learning all the physics I need. But still, no knowledge is useless. It might come in handy if I ever drop out of school and decide to make nuclear bombs for a living. lol.


Now, in a completely unrelated side note, look at this. I almost pissed myself. You will too.



See how easy it is to go to jail now, Clive?

Still...they do say, if you dress like you want it, you're gonna get it.

The studying for mock exams is coming along great though. I feel really energized as of late. I guess Pepsi really is addictive, because I've been taking it in by the gallon to stay awake. Lets hope all this pays off in the long run.

Later peeps!

Almost Done

Mock exams are on their way. All programming work has stopped. All my energy is being focused on studying and picking up girls. Need to relieve stress. Can't keep coherent thoughts....

A long time ago, I made this video. Yes, I'm KirbzXXX. Hope you like it:


I also made Boondocks and Samurai Champloo AMVs, but youtube removed them. Oh well.

Sayonara,

Fighting My Way Through This Life

Well, Easter Holidays are coming up. The thing is for me, they're not going to be holidays, since I have mock exams coming up after them. I've been studying too much lately, so I decided to frag some punks to take the stress of. Well that didn't seem to work, so I decided to program some stuff. No, the second Python-Irrlicht tutorial isn't ready yet,its a lot of work, and I'm really too lazy.

However, I did do a simple tutorial on Irrlicht-Newton integration. I made a simple demo that has a sphere falling under the influence of gravity, to hit the ground. It teaches the basics of Newton and a little bit of design theory, so grab it.

Also, I hope you've noticed the donate button. Stick your pointer in it and send me some money please lol!!