A Blag About Graphics and Programming

Happy New Year...

The end of 2008 was interesting:

• An epic project for the Software Engineering/Team Software Process class at the university. Yes, we did have tree months for it, but it's just more fun to do everything during the last five weeks Working in a six-man team was a great experience.
  In case anyone is looking for a free SVN server that allows closed-source projects: Origo FTW!
  
  
• Wrote a simple soccer "playing" robot for the Autonomic Robot class using Microsoft Robotics Studio and Soccer Simulation for Microsoft Robotics Studio.
  The assignment was to code a robot that can score a goal from any "reasonable position" in under a minute.
  
  Did I mention that the robot only has a 320x240 "webcam"? And that for some reason the entire robot depends on the webcam? The webcam has a new image? That means it's time to update. You still haven't finished responding to the the last image? Doesn't matter, it's time to update!
  Oh, and there's no collision between the ball and the camera, so the camera gets inside the ball, and, suddenly, there's no ball visible! Great times...
  This was one of the most painful pieces of code I've ever written.
  Anyway, a dramatic screenshot:
  
  
• Finished "the thing that I was working on" and have ranted a couple of times. More about this sometime in the future.
  
• Became a proud member of the xbox360 owners club. MS_Fanboy++;
  Anybody wants to be my Xbox Live buddy and pwn some n00bs in Battlefield:Bad Company?
  

And to start 2009 on a proper note, my next semester's term paper will be on "Implementation and Research of Educational Software for Creating Affine and Projective Transformations". (This is the best translation I could come up with)