I have come to the conclusion that Applets are irrevocably bugged. The stand alone application version works exactly as planned. The 1.4.2 applet version does not render the sheep (as indicated previously by a few of the subjects), and it renders a red line between each row of pixels. I am so furio…

Getting closer to the final product (I better hope so, I'm presenting it in 2 days). Here you can see the three images of the eventual survey. These three images represent the same tilemap data rendered using three different methods. The first displays no height data whatsoever. It will be used as …

I have prepared a set of surveys that I hope to distribute soon. I can't talk about the survey very much, or what the survey will be testing, because obviously that may compromise the survey.

Obvious aspects of any survey experiment

The survey is an experiment:
You first create a hypothesis, what you …

I've moved hosting of my optical illusion project to here on GameDev. Link for great justice.

I planned the next entry to include my screenshots, so I will copy the screenshots page to here.


Die Schirmschusse fur alle
Demo 0
Basically just getting the isometric map rendering without any effects.


Demo 1
T…

My work began by first attempting to determine the current "state of the art" in optical illusions in CG. Much of this is covered in the literature summary linked to in Optical Illusions in Computer Graphics #1. This included searches on:

• Google,
  
• Citeseer, and
  
• The ACM Digital Library.

The majority of …

I'm working on a research project involving optical illusions in computer graphics. Many people here on Gamedev have already seen a lot of my screenshots. With this journal I will attempt to track my total research and development process.

I highly suggest that all computer science students complete…

Well, one more year of college. I think...

This year I am Vice President of the programming team (it sort of fell on me, like a tree falls on a parked car during a hurricane). I am also the President of the new Upsilon Pi Epsilon chapter on campus (we're Alpha Beta Sigma). I will also have some sort…

It feels great to be a GDNet+ subscriber. The gang really went all out with the improvements. I can really see this as an enhancement to my portfolio when I strike out into the job market. To have webspace explicity associated with the largest gamedev site on the planet will be quite a plus.