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I’ve run head-first into the first big wall on my little OpenGL-Project. I was implementing a simple physics system, which triggered a much bigger problem: the general architecture of my game was crap. I knew that, but I didn’t know how to make it suck less. However, I think I have now found a solution.…

I just finished a part of the terrain-generator …well, let’s call it “the OpenGL project” that generates some three-dimensional primitives. I think the internal API is quite nice – though, admittedly I may be a bit biased… 🙂 If one wanted a sphere (there is no choice, really – spheres are the only primitives implemented…

That one was surprisingly easy, then hard, and eventually pretty easy again. In most GUI-frameworks, I think, one could have just used the normal text-on-canvas functions to draw some text on top of the OpenGL canvas. At least that’s what I had expected. Well, it doesn’t really work that way in Racket’s GUI framework. So,…

I just got my little terrain generator to render the first planets. The generated terrain is not yet very realistic, the “texture” is just a height-map and the poles (not pictured) look really bad. Still: success! I managed to get something involving sine and cosine to actually work, sort of. And I regained my sixth…

“You are missing some linker flag somewhere” translates to C++ as follows: There is no place in this world for a language like that. We have enough problems already. Stop. Using. C++. Use C, use Go, use a Lisp – heck, use C# or Java or Brainfuck. But please, please, please stop that C++ bullshit.…

I’m a bit disappointed by Common Lisp. I don’t know what I expected, but it’s not quite the language I would like it to be. It’s not that CL’s a bad language – it’s just so… ugly, really. For a Lisp at least. And a bit unfriendly, too. To beginners like me at least. An…

Recently some colleagues of mine started hacking some OpenGL stuff, which somehow motivated me to also dive into that again. Knowing that I won’t be able to keep me motivated writing a whole game, I thought I’ll tinker a bit with terrain generation – a fairly easy way to do something exciting. Now, my colleagues…

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. Pink Floyd Today I learned: A full compile of llvm and…

I got myself a new machine recently, a Thinkpad R400. At first I only wanted to buy a new keyboard and some RAM for my old laptop, but then I saw that I could get a not-completely-obsolete Thinkpad off of ebay for less than 200 €. That’s where my brain came to the conclusion that…

Hi there! Long time no see! I got a bit side-tracked. Well, that’s an understatement. At first, I just wanted to re-haul the site’s design a bit. Then I thought, why not re-haul the back-end, too? I was thinking of a wiki-like system, but with pages consisting of independently editable (and lockable) blocks. Just doing…