well, i have been lazy or busy or both to write up a nice post and finally start explaining how i do my stuff. i have been working sporadically though and there is progress. i experimented with terrain and refined the atmospheric effects. but mostly fixed bugs and design-flaws in Comet. i have uploaded some of the nicest wip screenshots to facebook. enjoy.
late update
February 14th, 2011A small work-in-progress gallery
November 24th, 2010slowly, the whole thing starts to look quite nice… a more verbose update soon.
galaxies
October 5th, 2010another update. despite a shitload of work & stuff at uni, i more or less finished my galaxy simulation based upon the density-wave-theory (i am pretty amazed, that my implementation looks almost similar to the one shown there), the main feature being a correct computation of colors using planck’s law.
this will be improved a great deal in the future, mostly in the visual field (this cries for hdr), but i also intend to make the galaxy’s parameters adjustable i.e. different numbers of spiral-arms, elliptical galaxies, sunflower-galaxies, spheroid-galaxies etc.
some pictures:
2-arms barred spiral galaxy
same thing, nicer view
close view
far view
finally…
September 27th, 2010well well, i finally got to it. i’ve hardly done any work on comet etc. in the last month due to lack of time - but i found a spare minute
to setup a small scene to show off my progress so far. it’s not much admittedly, most work went into the parts you can’t see…
next steps will be: terrain for the planets, proper lighting, hdr to get the sunrises right and speaking of the sun i like it being square.
moon from upper atmosphere
sun and rings
after dusk
dark side & square sun
reboot!
August 25th, 2010well - i didn’t write here for more than a year so its safe to say that the experiment failed
and i suck at communicating my stuff. this is true, sadly.
but i don’t give up. i will try again - this time more focused.
i have 3 coding projects going on right now (besides work & study).
* my very own little graphics-engine i christened comet
* a visualization of a solar system to scale and in full detail (just wanna see if i can replicate the results of
mr. brebions infinity)
* a small game using comet (need a name!)
in the following posts i will write more about where i am and where i’m heading with all this and put
some pictures or something up.
until then
My Smoothed Particles
May 19th, 2009Pirate Bay Trial
April 17th, 2009Crazy things happening over in Sweden. A country so famous for being one of the most decent societies, as close to utopia as our possibilities allow, shows its ugly side. Enough of the elevated tone though, the guys behind thepiratebay.org, who recently got sued by the big-fucks of the media industry, lost the in the first instance of this obviously political trial. The accusation is ridicululous: ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Listen to what the guys say here.
Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Carl Lundström
good luck! I’m with you.
InfiniteLoop begins!
April 16th, 2009Well, I actually did get myself a blog. For some time now I had an urge to communicate thoughts and ideas on a broader level, to find like-minded people etc. Perhaps express myself a little bit. For me this all is quite novel. The experiment begins…