Welcome to Alex Walters's Developers Wiki @ cyrus5.co.uk

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Vector Graphics

Category:Vector Graphics

I represent Imagination Technologies in the OpenVG working group, and through my interests in this vein of computer graphics I have collected a few little apps and thoughts along the way.

Helpful Utilities

• SVG To Vector Font Conversion - A little app to help me create simple vector font data files for inclusion in apps and games.

Code Snippets

Category:Code Snippets

• LocklessCircularBuffer - New! Lockless circular buffer/fifo implementation.
• LineIntersection - Calculating the intersection of two line segments.
• Redirecting IOStreams - For redirecting std::cout to other streams
• Fast Sine/Cosine - Fast approximation of sine/cosine. With ASM. 5 *'s, 3 +'s and an abs; faster than 4-term Taylor Series.
• Fast Modulus - Fast Modulus for when divisor is a power of 2.
• CornerDirection - Determining the direction a corner bends with 2D vectors.
• HermiteSpline - A bit of code I knocked up quick for calculating Hermite curves, and the first derivative. (Might be a nice to convert to assembler)
• CircumferenceOfEllipse - Approximations to the circumference of an ellipse.
• UnixCommands
• ComparingFloats - Comparing floating point numbers for equality.
• EasyRGB - Color mathematics and conversion formulas. - Formulas for converting to and from different colour representations.

Game Development

Category:Game Development

Projects

• IMUI - An immediate mode user interface library for OpenGL.
• More to come

Some Miscellaneous Pages of Mine

• RTS Design Doc - Design Document of my RTS game
• FlockingIdeas - Some thoughts and material on flocking
• VisualEffects - Notes, Emails and Attempts at various graphical effects.
• NotesOnIntegration - Notes on force propagation and verlet intergral.
• UsingGLSLShaders

Collected Articles

• C# Gamecode Shootout - A site comparing Mono C# to other languages for programming gameplay level code. (Includes multiple versions of Python, Lua, as well as Haskell, Scheme, etc. New!
• ExposureControl - Tone mapping and exposure control by Hugo Elias
• EvolveYourHierarchy - Game Developer Article on using aggregation over inheritance for OOD.
• OffendOMatic - Tom Forsyth's rules on telling whether a programmer is a danger to themselves.
• Middleware - I'd use it if I could afford it!
• AIPapers - Ai Stuff
• ShadowPapers
• GestureRecognition - Some interesting tid bits.
• Fast Delegates (on codeproject.com) - Article on an efficient delegate implementation for all c++ compilers.
• [1] - Little ditty on listener pattern for rendering objects.

Indie Game Section!

• TheFunkyGameList - A list, suprisingly, of funky indie games. Who would have guessed!
• 6th Age - one of the most impressive and original looking indie games I've come across!
• Tell Tale Games - They came from Lucas Arts... Independant developer tell tale games, now working on new Sam & Max games apparently!! :) Muchos Kudos!
• Aquaterra - Really *really* great looking out door rendering, a big show off of expensive shader goodness...
• Infinity - The Quest for Earth Jaw dropping! Absolutely beautiful!
• Plasma Pong - Like your usual game of pong, except with computational fluid dynamics!
• Thingavore - A strange name and a strange game, but probably the best puzzle game I have played since lemmings! A personal favorite!! PLAY THIS NOW!

Links

• GameDevLinks
• PhysicsLinks
• https://cyrus5.no-ip.com/repos - My SVN Repository 'Not always Online'
• http://www.cyrus5.co.uk/ - My main website for waffling, development projects and misc bits
• http://www.caffine-powered.co.uk/ - My Website for this wiki and will probably be my website for finished software. When I finish it!
• http://www.convexhull.com/wiki/?n=GameMath.HomePage - Noah's wiki for sweng-gamedev's discussion of what would constitute a useful maths library API for game development.
• http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Lag_Compensation - A good little ditty on lag compensation in games.
• http://www.agilegamedevelopment.com/ - Clinton Keith's Agile development site (of High Moon Studios).
• http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2006/10/25/reading-files-as-fas-as-possible/ - Article on loading files efficiently.
• http://cubeengine.com/ - Very cool looking game engine where everything is based on cubes. Though is deceptively flexible!!!
• http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/341/ - S I M T O W E R ! ! ! !

General Programming

Category:General Programming

• SimpletonDesignPattern - Why singletons are stupid!
• ComputationalGeometry - Links and notes on comp geometry.
• HammingDistance
• WritingASolidAssert - How to write the king of assert macros

C++ Programming

Category:C++ Programming

• SmartPointers - auto_ptr and friends—The final solution for memory leaks?

Design Work

• http://archive.cardesignnews.com/studio/tutorials/040723quick-sketch/sketch3.html - Some tips for perpective contruction sketches.

Misc

• Garfield - A Selection of Garfield Cartoons! :)
• NintendoVi - First came vi, then came the wii, now await this revolutionary new input system!
• GuitarTabs - Guitar Tab List. Gives me a place to store my 'favorites'.
• http://ardfry.com/pngoutwin/ - A pretty good looking png optimiser!
• http://www.bugmenot.com/ - A nice idea!!!
• ClubbinClubbinClubbin! - Most fun!

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