Still slogging through my assignment…

Red Remover. Might as well be nicknamed Time remover.

In case you have any spare time on your hands that you want to have totally eradicated by a very addictive flash game, may I present: Red Remover by Gaz. All you do is bust the red shapes, keeping the green ones onscreen. But it gets harder and harder, with multiple planes of gravity, and then there’s a second round that’s pretty ridiculous. You can *feel* yourself getting smarter while you play.

Here’s a tip: Look at the name of each level name before you start; it’s helpful and will become even more helpful in the second round. I am proud to say I completed the whole game at par* in “hard” mode, without any hints. I am ashamed to say that I wasted all my spare time for an entire weekend doing so.
Thanks to Emmanuel for the tip.

* Except Level 44, which I could not complete in less than 2 over par.
But I was below par for two other levels so I’m counting it.

Level 44 is for jerks

Oh, and here’s another fun flash game – Totem.

In case you have any spare time on your hands that you want to have totally eradicated by a very addictive flash game, may I present: Red Remover. All you do is bust the red shapes, keeping the green ones onscreen. But it gets harder and harder, with multiple planes of gravity, and then there’s a second round that’s pretty ridiculous. You can *feel* yourself getting smarter while you play.

Here’s a tip: Look at the name of each level name before you start; it’s helpful and will become even more helpful in the second round. I am proud to say I completed the whole game at par* in “hard” mode, without any hints. I am ashamed to say that I wasted all my spare time for an entire weekend doing so.
Thanks to Emmanuel for the tip.

* Except Level 44, on which I could not do in less than 2 over par.
But I was below par for two other levels so I’m counting it.

Oh, and here’s another fun flash game – Totem.

CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.

Large Hadron Rap packs a punch, take the spacetime to understand a bunch of it and you’ll know a whole bunch’a not too hard and way cool stuff.

Alpinekat is a great singer, Will Barras is a great groover, and the anonymous Back-up Dancers are -well – anonymous.  I can’t dance  ~<:|

Estive a fazer alguns testes com a biblioteca de physics theory para o Silverlight. O helper facilita imenso a implementação, ao ponto de se conseguir fazer quase tudo sem recurso ao código. Assim o designer transforma-se em developer, contrariando a tendência normal de ter que ser o developer a fazer o design da aplicação.

No entanto dos meus testes resultou alguma insatisfação:

1. Fisica “real e deformativa"

Não consigo criar o movimento elástico “real” em que um objecto se deforma ao chocar com outro e volta ao desenho original. Nos exemplos clássicos é uma bola que ao chocar com uma parede se transforma numa elipse e depois volta à forma original.

2. Fisica 3D

Claramente o passo seguinte é ter uma perspectiva 3D permitindo a construção de desktops 3D, etc. Este ponto é menos importante comparado com os restantes porque pretendo ter uma sensação mais real de interacção antes de acrescentar mais uma dimensão ao problema.

3. Modelação “manual”

Interagir com os objectos mudando a forma: com dois dedos pegar num circulo e transformá-lo numa elipse, um quadrado num rectangulo, etc.

Se alguém tiver conhecimento ou estiver a trabalhar em algum destes temas, p.f. entre em contacto comigo.

At a welcome request from Sam, I typed up a few hints for some of the chapter 2 problems. Please click this link to a .pdf file and let me know if this gets you moving toward some solutions
HwkGCS_Ch2_selections

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Plasmonic Laser Heralds New Generation of Computing

Stockman has an powerful vision for his device:

“One may envision ultrafast nanoplasmonic chips with a high degree of integration where spasers communicate and control each other through their near fields or are connected with nanoplasmonic wires. These can perform ultrafast microprocessor functions.”