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Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Points | Goals | Assists | |
DET | P Datsyuk 97 | H Zetterberg 43 | P Datsyuk 66 |
OTT | J Spezza 92 | J Spezza 34 | J Spezza 58 |
D. Alfredsson (Senators - RW): Goals: 2, Assists: 0
M. Fisher (Senators - C): Goals: 1, Assists: 1
C. Phillips (Senators - D): Goals: 0, Assists: 0
OTTAWA (AP) -- The Ottawa Senators were up to the challenge of facing the NHL's winningest team in a potential Stanley Cup finals preview, even if only standings points and bragging rights were at stake.
Daniel Alfredsson scored his second power-play goal of the game with 2:56 remaining to lift Ottawa to a 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night in a matchup of the league's top two teams.
Ottawa leads the Eastern Conference with 62 points, second overall to Detroit's total of 70 atop the West.
Alfredsson was cautious about putting too much stock in the game's significance.
"I don't think it was more important but I think that we knew of their record coming in," he said. "They haven't lost a lot of games in regulation, they're playing really well, they've got a lot of players that are fun to watch and very good defensively so I think that got us ready. We really respected their team, there's no question, and I think we played our best game in quite a while."
Alfredsson restored Ottawa's lead with his 28th goal of the season after the Senators blew a 2-0 advantage earlier in the period. The Ottawa captain also scored on a slap shot from the point past former teammate Dominik Hasek to open the scoring just 1:04 in.
Mike Fisher also scored and had an assist for Ottawa as he and Alfredsson extended their scoring streaks to nine games.
Detroit scored twice in the third, tying it with 7:54 remaining after Senators All-Star Dany Heatley departed earlier in the period with an apparent right shoulder injury.
"I don't know if they played their best game, we certainly didn't play our best game, especially in the first 40 minutes," Hasek said. "I think it was a little bit disappointing for everyone in the locker room."
Brian Rafalski scored on a power play 7:46 into the third to cut it to 2-1. Jiri Hudler evened it at 2 when he jumped on a rebound of Nicklas Lidstrom's point shot off the end boards left of the net and drove a slap shot past Ottawa goalie Ray Emery.
"We didn't feel we played like we could tonight, for whatever reason, through 40 minutes so you've got to give them a lot of credit," Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "There's two parts -- there's your part and their part and they were quicker, more physical and more determined at the start and I thought we got going, but in the end it was their day."
Heatley left after he fell awkwardly into the boards while checking Detroit's Dallas Drake behind the Senators' net. He did not return. The team said he had an upper body injury and didn't say if he would miss any time.
"You take a 50-goal man out of your lineup, other guys have to step up and score," linemate Jason Spezza said. "Everybody has to kind of pick up a little bit of the slack. Every team goes through injuries and we're going to have to do the same thing. We'll just have to deal with it."
Emery, Hasek's backup with Ottawa during the first half of the 2005-06 season, made 27 saves for his third straight win as the Senators extended their winning streak to four.
"I think it was a test for us," Emery said. "They've been having a good year and they're first in the NHL so it kind of measures you up to the other conference and it gives you an idea of what a kind of a big game feels like again."
Hasek, who recorded shutouts in Dallas and against Colorado in each of his last two starts, was Ottawa's starting goalie two seasons ago until he suffered a season-ending groin injury while playing for the Czech Republic during the Olympics in Turin.
"I played with him for a year so it's not like I'm star-struck," Emery said. "Any time you're playing against a guy like that, a guy who's one of the best to ever play, you know that you've got to play well to give your team a chance to win against a goalie like that."
Alfredsson's first goal ended Hasek's shutout streak at 135 minutes, 22 seconds.
"I thought [Hasek] played excellent," Lidstrom said. "They had some other great chances where they could have been ahead a couple of goals, too. He kept us in the game early on and it is encouraging that we battled back, but still disappointing, losing at the end."
Steve Yzerman was honored by the Senators before the game for his recent induction into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame. The Red Wings legend and Ottawa native dropped the puck in a ceremonial faceoff.
Heatley had his former teammate beaten twice earlier in the game but failed to convert both times. Heatley hit the right post 8:42 in with a delayed interference penalty signaled against Drake. The All-Star right wing hit the left post when he shot after he was sent in alone by Alfredsson on a breakaway in the second.
Game notes
Rafalski's stick blade sailed high in the air into the left corner after it broke off when he took a slap shot from the right point during a first-period power play. ... Heatley, in his third season in Ottawa, has yet to miss a game since he was acquired by the Senators in the trade that sent Marian Hossa to Atlanta before the 2005-06 season.
Game Information
Arena: Canadian Tire Centre Location: Ottawa, Ontario |
Referees: Mike Hasenfratz, Greg Kimmerly Linesmen: Jean Morin, Anthony Sericolo |
Attendance: 20,208 (109.2% full) |
Team Stat Comparison
Detroit | Ottawa | ||
2 | Goals | 3 | |
1 | Power Play Goals | 2 | |
6 | Power Play Opportunities | 5 | |
0 | Shorthanded Goals | 0 | |
6 | Penalties | 7 | |
15 | Penalty Minutes | 17 | |
29 | Shots on Goal | 32 | |
25 | Hits | 25 | |
26 | Faceoffs Won | 31 |
Scoring Summary
1st Period | DET | OTT | ||
1:09 | Daniel Alfredsson (27)
(Power Play) Assists: Dany Heatley, Jason Spezza |
0 | 1 | |
2nd Period | DET | OTT | ||
3:26 | Mike Fisher (16)
Assist: Luke Richardson |
0 | 2 | |
3rd Period | DET | OTT | ||
7:46 | Brian Rafalski (8)
(Power Play) Assists: Henrik Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk |
1 | 2 | |
12:06 | Jiri Hudler (11)
Assists: Nicklas Lidstrom, Niklas Kronwall |
2 | 2 | |
17:04 | Daniel Alfredsson (28)
(Power Play) Assists: Joe Corvo, Mike Fisher |
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Viewed – 23 April 2012 Blu-ray
I don't normally agree with remakes of foreign movies, but in the case of this much-anticipated American adaptation, I have a major reason to make an exception … David Fincher. Arguably one of the best directors of the moment, who has crafted some of the finest movies of the last ten years of so, namely Seven, Zodiac and Fight Club. Newcomer Rooney Mara takes on the role of Lisbeth Salander, a computer hacker for hire who gets involved with disgraced magazine journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) when he is hired to investigate a 40 year mystery by an ageing business tycoon (Christopher Plummer). Blomkvist soon discovers he's been given the job of piecing together the clues revolving around the disappearance and suspected murder of the tycoon's niece, Harriet, and subsequently uncovers the shady dealings and murky past of a wealthy but complex family.
Fincher's adaptation of the acclaimed novel by the late Stieg Larsson, and the first part of the famed 'millennium trilogy' that also comprises The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, seems faithful not only to the book but also to the Swedish movie of the same name that made a cult star out of actress Noomi Rapace. For me having seen both versions, I found this the hardest to follow. Set like the book and the other movie in Sweden and with the same character names, locations etc, I think the Swedish version actually benefits from being subtitled, and many of the places, names and little details come across clearer when you're seeing them printed at the bottom of the screen. This of course doesn't help Fincher's movie as the strong accents and foreign names are harder to grasp when hearing them as opposed to reading them. This version also differs in several key areas, such as how Blomkvist and Salander finally get to work together, how Salander's mother isn't even featured, but replaced by a stronger focus on her former 'guardian', and the ending is changed significantly, proving much less satisfying. It puzzled me why Fincher made these changes, but having not read the book, I can't say which movie is the most faithful. Performances-wise Rooney Mara is excellent as Lisbeth and every bit as tough and complex as Noomi Rapace was, even if I felt I warmed to Rapace's performance quicker. Daniel Craig however, although likable brings nothing that Michael Nyqvist didn't achieve back in 2009, failing to stamp his own identity on the character.
To conclude this is a fascinating effort from David Fincher who brings plenty of style and his usual attention to detail to proceedings, even if for a film-maker of his calibre, I was left wanting. Considering the hype of the books or the acclaim of the Swedish movie, this should have been the definitive version … but for me, just felt competent rather than truly blowing me away. Yet there is still enough here to make me wonder just what we'll get with the two proposed sequels, which I'm already guessing could turn out superior.
Verdict: 3 /5
Incidentally, a post on the blog ProdigalFilmStudent has compared both movie adaptations, which makes for fascinating reading, but as can be expected, is spoilerifick.
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The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
Viewed – 15 April 2011 Blu-ray
So we come to the final installment in the much acclaimed and iconic adaptation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, where following the dramatic conclusion of The Girl Who Played With Fire, we find Lisbeth Salander recovering in hospital under Police observation awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her Father. At the same time hot-shot Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (the excellent Michael Nyqvist) is gathering evidence to clear her name. To say I was looking forward to this is an understatement, and although I had my reservations about the last movie, it still kept me gripped enough for me to want to find out what happens next.
Movie musings 2011
This is the time of year when many of my viewing habits are of movies I missed out on seeing the previous year. You can expect reviews of some of the summer blockbusters and lesser known releases of 2010, amongst new cinema releases. This is one reason why an end of year top ten usually comprises of movies older than that year. Something that has been of much deliberation to me lately considering that originally I had placed 21 Grams as my movie of the year, then thought better of it considering its age. Yet that means classic movies such as The Sound Of Music will never qualify. But you must have rules or else such an end of year list will have no comparison to other people's end of year lists.
Anyway I digress. In the coming months there are many movies I am looking forward to seeing, be it at the cinema or more than likely on Blu-ray. Of the movies that have got me most excited, Zack Snyder's ballistic looking Sucker Punch is much-anticipated. Scantily clad babes with guns & samurai swords in a fantasy action adventure? Where do I sign? Also David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is one of those movie's that just can't fail – especially with Fincher at the helm. Wes Craven returns with the unexpected but no less appreciated Scream 4, a franchise I recall loving to bits, and hell, aren't we in need of a clever-ass slasher movie after all the countless remakes we've endured? Consider my seat booked. It also has to be said, the Harrison Ford / Daniel Craig vehicle Cowboys and Aliens looks heaps of fun, and with Iron Man director John Favreau at the helm, all the ingredients are in place.
Movies I'm less looking forward to but could be worth seeing none the less are Cars 2, which knowing Pixar will be entertaining and look the biz, and this time with a secret agent storyline, may well be more interesting than the fish out of water plot previously. Having not seen the last Pirates movie, At Worlds End I wont be rushing to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides until I have got myself up to date – but the trailer does look like it will be great entertainment. Also Kung Fu Panda 2 is fairly assured entertainment even if it'll be on the back burner compared to a few of the other big hitters. Oh and the idea of Transformers: Dark of the Moon fills me with dread after the mostly abysmal last movie, but then again the first Transformers in my opinion was superb, so it could go either way.
To conclude though, 2011 looks like being a great year for the movie industry with some great looking stuff coming our way. Colour me excited!!
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The year in review – Part Two
Continuing my look back on the movies that have most impressed me during 2010, we now proceed with the last two quarters of the year. With the summer blockbuster season in full swing, I still found time to discover smaller, but no less satisfying movies…
The Girl Who Played With Fire
Viewed – 20 November 2010 DVD
I was certainly a big fan of the last movie, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the first part of Stieg Larsson's acclaimed Millennium Trilogy, which introduced me to a new iconic female hero in the shape of tragic, gothic computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace). That movie's plot involving the disappearance of a girl only hinted at the dark past of Lisbeth. However this follow-up, involving an investigation into sex trafficking, exposes much more of what makes Lisbeth tick, and is therefore more revealing when it comes to her character.


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Late in October, a complaint was filed against Aledo High School football coach Tim Buchanan for encouraging his players to "bully" their opponents. The nature of the alleged bullying? A win so decisive as to humiliate the losing team, with a final score of 91 to zero. The unhappy parent of a player on the defeated team had filed the complaint following Aledo's lopsided victory.
An investigation by the school district soon cleared Coach Buchanan, and interviews suggest he did what he could to minimize the rout, but the feelings of that disgruntled parent aren't hard to understand, even if we don't agree with the charges. It's one thing to lose in competition, quite another to feel as if you're a total loser on the field, so inept that you might as well not play. The complaining parent no doubt believed his son had been demoralized by this staggering loss, his self-esteem shattered by such a public demonstration of athletic inferiority.
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Bullied for Not Believing in God
Despite secularism and atheism being on the rise, some areligious students feel discriminated against—at times violently. Now teachers across the U.S. are creating Secular Safe Zones to "curtail anti-atheist bullying, discrimination, and social isolation."Read more. [Image: SalvatoreLaporta/AP]
— Mitt Romney, on the Washington Post's story about his high-school bullying.
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In the course of his talk about bullying, Savage pointed out anti-gay activists sometimes cite the Bible to justify their beliefs and behavior. He then went on to point out that the Bible sanctions any number of activities we don't allow today, including slavery and the stoning of women who are not virgins when married (the full text, if you don't want to watch the video, ishere), strictures he referred to as "bullshit." In protest, some (presumably) Christian members of the audience walked out. As he wrapped up the inflammatory section of his remarks, Savage apologized for offending anyone, but undercut that apology somewhat by adding, "It's funny, as someone who's on the receiving end of beatings that are justified by the Bible, how pansy-assed some people react when you push back."
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Maybe I am completely off here, but if your desire is for the cubes to be distributed across the surface of a sphere, why not make the inputs to sin and cos lie between -pi and pi? This would make the initial positions lie on a unit sphere and then you can scale them by the radius of the large sphere to get their final positions.
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#5076197 Why is hexadecimal used in binary model files?
Posted by MarkS on 08 July 2013 - 01:42 PM
I see now.
These values may be arbitrary, or more likely, they are chosen because they are unlikely/less likely to show up as data values.
I was doing several things at once and typed slowly. Brother Bob beat me to it.
#5076182 Why is hexadecimal used in binary model files?
Posted by MarkS on 08 July 2013 - 12:17 PM
The term 'chunks' or 'sections' are used to describe different portions of some binary file formats. In your TGA file example, the file format might call the header portion of bytes the "header chunk", and the pixel portion of bytes, the "pixel chunk" (for example).Binary files don't have "chunks". I'm more than a little confused by that. A binary file is a string of bytes that span the length of the file. The only time I've seen "chunks" was in a human readable format.
Some binary file formats even allow their 'chunks' to be put in whatever order, but use code values to identify them so you know how to process them.
I thought of that, but it didn't seem to be what he is asking. I'm more certain that he is looking at a human readable file format with hexadecimal tags.
#5076073 Why is hexadecimal used in binary model files?
Posted by MarkS on 08 July 2013 - 02:43 AM
Typically a binary file will be formatted to have a header with offsets to the various data and that header will be immediately followed by the file data. What a binary (hexadecimal) string represents to the file loader is entirely defined by the file format.
Here is a binary file. It is a simple 5x5 pixel TGA file. The first 18 bytes are the file header and the image data starts at byte 19 (the 00 immediately following the 08).
00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 05 00 20 08 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FFThe "02" in the header tells the loader that this is an uncompressed, true-color image.
The first "05 00" defines a 16-bit word that tells the loader the width of the image; In this case, 5 pixels.
The second "05 00" defines a 16-bit word that tells the loader the height of the image.
The "20" that follows is 32 in hexadecimal, telling the loader that each pixel in the pixel data is 32-bits (4 bytes).
The "08" is an encoded byte, whose bits tell the loader if the image is flipped as well as the number of alpha channel bits.
The other bytes that I did not explain have special meaning as well, in certain cases, but are unused in this file.
The image data is stored as BGRA (blue, green, red, alpha) and in this case, each pixel has the values "00 00 00 FF".
If you are seeing anything other than hexadecimal in a file, it isn't a binary file.
#5067916 High framerate 2d animations
Posted by MarkS on 06 June 2013 - 04:57 PM
Raña, the manor in which you store the sprite frames has no effect on how smooth your animation is. Whether you store the sprite in a sprite sheet, individual frames or some other format, the smoothness of the animation is a function of the skill of the artist and programmer. If your sprites have a thousand frames of animation, it will ,of course, be smoother than the same sprite with a dozen frames. However, if the sprite engine is based on frame rate and not time, even a thousand frames will not look smooth in many circumstances. You mention 30 FPS. On modern hardware, you should be seeing frame rates well above 100 FPS. I just implemented sprite/tile sheets using OpenGL 3.3 and shaders and I am getting nearly 10,000 FPS drawing a single sprite. If the engine is just NOW reaching 30 FPS, something is wrong with the code or you are attempting to use very old hardware.
I have to admit that I find your question very unclear. What is the issue, exactly? There are few reasons for a sprite to have more than a dozen or so frames per unique animation and even that is a high figure.
their was a program I used awhile back that did this, but I don't remember it's name off the top of my head, and i'm not on a pc atm.
#5061314 "Hacking" a .rom file, is it doable?
Posted by MarkS on 12 May 2013 - 12:16 PM
This is a tricky legal area. You may not be doing anything illegal if all you do is strictly hack the ROM to make it do what you want, but if you copy its contents (which, BTW, is required to hack the ROM), you're breaking the law.
#5055006 Odd frame rate fluctuation when using glm::rotate.
Posted by MarkS on 19 April 2013 - 02:22 PM
I wrote a simple instancing demo for a member here. The demo just creates a cube composed of 512 instances of a cube and the view rotates around this by updating the MVP matrix with glm::rotate. I noticed that the framerate was fluctuating in an almost sinusoidal fashion and this led me to the rotate function. The frame rate goes from a high of around .75 ms/frame to a low of around 1.5 ms/frame. This isn't too bad, but what I find curious, and my main question is, why is this not constant? I tested it and it seems that the frame rate spikes when the angle is 180° and drops to the low point at 0°.
Is this normal? I took a look at the source for glm::rotate, but couldn't find anything wrong. This leads me to believe that I am doing something wrong.
Here is the source:
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,LPSTR lpCmdLine,int nCmdShow) { MSG msg; BOOL done; gl_win_app app_instance; RECT bounds; float angle; float aspect; float fov; GLuint mvp_matrix_loc; GLuint texture_loc; GLuint instance_matrix_loc; GLuint loc_1,loc_2,loc_3,loc_4; glm::mat4 projection; glm::mat4 view; glm::mat4 mvp; fov = 60.0f; SetupConsole(); app_instance.InitializeApp("GL Instance Test"); app_instance.RegisterAppClass(hInstance); app_instance.CreateAppWindow("GL Instance Test",WS_EX_APPWINDOW,WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU | WS_CLIPSIBLINGS | WS_CLIPCHILDREN,10,10,1000,1000,false); app_instance.ShowAppWindow(true); app_instance.SetAppWindowForeground(); app_instance.SetAppWindowFocus(); glClearColor(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f); glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST); done = false; GetClientRect(app_instance.h_wnd,&bounds); bounds.bottom += GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYCAPTION) + (GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYFRAME) * 3) + (GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYBORDER) * 3); bounds.right += (GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXFRAME) * 3) + (GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXBORDER) * 3); aspect = float(bounds.right) / float(bounds.bottom); projection = glm::perspective(fov,aspect,0.1f,1000.0f); view = glm::lookAt(glm::vec3(0.0,0.0,25.0),glm::vec3(0.0,0.0,-25.0),glm::vec3(0,1,0)); shader = LoadShaders("data/instance.vs","data/instance.fs"); limestone.LoadTexture("data/limestone.tga"); CreateInstanceMatrices(); LoadCube(); glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,limestone.GetTextureID()); glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0); glUniform1i(limestone.GetTextureID(),0); mvp_matrix_loc = glGetUniformLocation(shader,"MVP"); texture_loc = glGetUniformLocation(shader,"texture_sampler"); instance_matrix_loc = glGetAttribLocation(shader,"instance_matrix"); loc_1 = instance_matrix_loc + 0; loc_2 = instance_matrix_loc + 1; loc_3 = instance_matrix_loc + 2; loc_4 = instance_matrix_loc + 3; glUseProgram(shader); angle = 0.0f; while(!done) { if(PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE)) { if(msg.message == WM_QUIT){ done = true; }else{ TranslateMessage(&msg); DispatchMessage(&msg); } }else{ glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); mvp = projection * view * glm::rotate(glm::mat4(),angle,glm::vec3(0.0,1.0,1.0)); angle += 0.025f; if(angle > 360.0f) angle = 0.0f; glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER,matrix_vbo); glEnableVertexAttribArray(loc_1); glEnableVertexAttribArray(loc_2); glEnableVertexAttribArray(loc_3); glEnableVertexAttribArray(loc_4); glVertexAttribPointer(loc_1,4,GL_FLOAT,GL_FALSE,sizeof(GLfloat) * 4 * 4,(void*)(0)); glVertexAttribPointer(loc_2,4,GL_FLOAT,GL_FALSE,sizeof(GLfloat) * 4 * 4,(void*)(sizeof(float) * 4)); glVertexAttribPointer(loc_3,4,GL_FLOAT,GL_FALSE,sizeof(GLfloat) * 4 * 4,(void*)(sizeof(float) * 8)); glVertexAttribPointer(loc_4,4,GL_FLOAT,GL_FALSE,sizeof(GLfloat) * 4 * 4,(void*)(sizeof(float) * 12)); glVertexAttribDivisor(loc_1,1); glVertexAttribDivisor(loc_2,1); glVertexAttribDivisor(loc_3,1); glVertexAttribDivisor(loc_4,1); glEnableVertexAttribArray(0); glEnableVertexAttribArray(1); glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER,vertexbuffer); glVertexAttribPointer(0,3,GL_FLOAT,GL_FALSE,20,BUFFER_OFFSET(0)); glVertexAttribPointer(1,2,GL_FLOAT,GL_FALSE,20,BUFFER_OFFSET(12)); glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER,elementbuffer); glUniformMatrix4fv(mvp_matrix_loc,1,GL_FALSE,glm::value_ptr(mvp)); glDrawElementsInstanced(GL_TRIANGLES,index_array.size(),GL_UNSIGNED_INT,BUFFER_OFFSET(0),matrices.size()); glDisableVertexAttribArray(0); glDisableVertexAttribArray(1); app_instance.gl_context.SwapBuffers(); } } glUseProgram(0); // Cleanup VBO and shader glDeleteBuffers(1,&vertexbuffer); glDeleteBuffers(1,&matrix_vbo); glDeleteBuffers(1,&elementbuffer); glDeleteProgram(shader); FreeConsole(); app_instance.ReleaseApp(); return(msg.wParam); }
#5054352 RECT font_rect
Posted by MarkS on 17 April 2013 - 05:57 PM
Spiro, I'd suggest you take a vacation. Bad/stupid/poorly formatted questions are bound to happen. You're taking this WAY to seriously. You've clearly assisted this member in how to ask questions in an intelligent manner on multiple occasions. At this point, maybe it is time to start reporting the posts? ;)
#5045817 Ah GLM Where is quick reference and function list?
Posted by MarkS on 22 March 2013 - 07:03 PM
I don't think there is a quick reference. The documentation leaves a lot to be desired. The manual is sparse and the API specification (http://glm.g-truc.net/api-0.9.4/index.html) is based on the glm modules, few of which are very descriptive. I find myself spending quite a bit of time digging through the specification and source. Very frustrating.
#5045802 Issue with frustum extraction using glm.
Posted by MarkS on 22 March 2013 - 06:05 PM
I was trying to extract the view frustum from matrices made via glm. I was having no luck with it and finally got it to work by transposing the mvp matrix before extracting the planes. I find this odd as I have done this before using the fixed function pipeline and I have never had to transpose the combined modelview and projection matrix.
This is the frustum extraction code I'm using. I got it from: http://www.crownandcutlass.com/features/technicaldetails/frustum.html , and modified it to use glm. I've gone over the code and I cannot see anything wrong. Any ideas? It works now, but shouldn't, and I am not sure why.
The mvp matrix is defined as:
projection = glm::perspective(fov,aspect,0.1f,1000.0f); view = glm::lookAt(glm::vec3(0.0,0.0,10.0),glm::vec3(0.0,0.0,-10.0),glm::vec3(0,1,0)); mvp = projection * view * glm::mat4(1.0f);
float InvSqrt(float x) { float xhalf; int i; xhalf = 0.5f * x; i = *(int*)&x; i = 0x5f3759df - (i >> 1); x = *(float*)&i; x = x * (1.5f - xhalf * x * x); return x; } void frustum::CalculateFrustum(glm::mat4 mvp) { float t; float m00,m01,m02,m03; float m10,m11,m12,m13; float m20,m21,m22,m23; float m30,m31,m32,m33; mvp = glm::transpose(mvp); m00 = mvp[0][0]; m01 = mvp[0][1]; m02 = mvp[0][2]; m03 = mvp[0][3]; m10 = mvp[1][0]; m11 = mvp[1][1]; m12 = mvp[1][2]; m13 = mvp[1][3]; m20 = mvp[2][0]; m21 = mvp[2][1]; m22 = mvp[2][2]; m23 = mvp[2][3]; m30 = mvp[3][0]; m31 = mvp[3][1]; m32 = mvp[3][2]; m33 = mvp[3][3]; planes[0].x = m30 - m00; planes[0].y = m31 - m01; planes[0].z = m32 - m02; planes[0].w = m33 - m03; t = InvSqrt(planes[0].x * planes[0].x + planes[0].y * planes[0].y + planes[0].z * planes[0].z); planes[0].x *= t; planes[0].y *= t; planes[0].z *= t; planes[0].w *= t; planes[1].x = m30 + m00; planes[1].y = m31 + m01; planes[1].z = m32 + m02; planes[1].w = m33 + m03; t = InvSqrt(planes[1].x * planes[1].x + planes[1].y * planes[1].y + planes[1].z * planes[1].z); planes[1].x *= t; planes[1].y *= t; planes[1].z *= t; planes[1].w *= t; planes[2].x = m30 - m10; planes[2].y = m31 - m11; planes[2].z = m32 - m12; planes[2].w = m33 - m13; t = InvSqrt(planes[2].x * planes[2].x + planes[2].y * planes[2].y + planes[2].z * planes[2].z); planes[2].x *= t; planes[2].y *= t; planes[2].z *= t; planes[2].w *= t; planes[3].x = m30 + m10; planes[3].y = m31 + m11; planes[3].z = m32 + m12; planes[3].w = m33 + m13; t = InvSqrt(planes[3].x * planes[3].x + planes[3].y * planes[3].y + planes[3].z * planes[3].z); planes[3].x *= t; planes[3].y *= t; planes[3].z *= t; planes[3].w *= t; planes[4].x = m30 - m20; planes[4].y = m31 - m21; planes[4].z = m32 - m22; planes[4].w = m33 - m23; t = InvSqrt(planes[4].x * planes[4].x + planes[4].y * planes[4].y + planes[4].z * planes[4].z); planes[4].x *= t; planes[4].y *= t; planes[4].z *= t; planes[4].w *= t; planes[5].x = m30 + m20; planes[5].y = m31 + m21; planes[5].z = m32 + m22; planes[5].w = m33 + m23; t = InvSqrt(planes[5].x * planes[5].x + planes[5].y * planes[5].y + planes[5].z * planes[5].z); planes[5].x *= t; planes[5].y *= t; planes[5].z *= t; planes[5].w *= t; }
#5022773 Is it worth investing time to learn 3D modeling.
Posted by MarkS on 17 January 2013 - 10:53 PM
I'm not saying that to discourage you, but typically artistic talent appears early in life. If you have it, you know. Try it though. You may find a hidden talent.
My only concern with Blender is that it is open source meaning it evolves very quickly, so what I learn now, many not be the same in a year or 2. Unless, the changes aren't so drastic. The thing is I am taking courses for graphics, like learning OpenGL and some aspects of how to create a simple game engine
Blender does change frequently, typically every other minor version release. However, this is usually a GUI change or added features. The program has changed significantly since 2.48 (the version I first downloaded), but the techniques still apply.
#5022201 Certain mouse position isn't responding to effect.
Posted by MarkS on 16 January 2013 - 09:28 AM
#5021660 Religons in games
Posted by MarkS on 14 January 2013 - 10:08 PM
I would spend the time to come up with three different religions that have no basis in the real world, like in the Elder Scrolls series. That is unless your game is based in the real world.
#5021596 Calculating matrices and then sending them or sending them and letting the GP...
Posted by MarkS on 14 January 2013 - 04:52 PM
The question is not whether it is faster to calculate the final MVP matrix on the CPU or the GPU, but whether it is faster to calculate it matrix once per model on the CPU or once per vertex on the GPU. But maybe the compiler could, theoretically, precompute the product just before the program is executed, but who knows.
Once per VERTEX? OK then. Question answered...
#5020358 Does Microsoft purposely slow down OpenGL?
Posted by MarkS on 11 January 2013 - 10:37 AM
What samoth said. Besides, OpenGL is still widely used for scientific visualization and CAD/CAM work. If Microsoft gimped OpenGL, we'd be hearing about it from more sources than a book. Not to mention that someone would have figured a work around by now.


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Smiling Dave:Reread the OP carefully.
Fair enough - even though it uses the intuitive example of a race, it talks only about reaching points.
Smiling Dave:As for your last paragraph, it is indeed another one of Zeno's paradoxes, the immovable arrow paradox. Of course, one paradox doesn't resolve another.
The immovable arrow paradox concerns time, not space. But in any case, all of these paradoxes are bound to the notion of extensions being composed of points, while at the same time to the notion of points having zero length, area, volume, etc. Another way of saying this is that they're bound to the notion that an infinitude can become a finitude.
I'd like to touch on something you said in an earlier post. You said that length can be seen as a function that maps between (necessarily infinite) sets of points and real numbers. But how are these infinite sets of points to be distinguished from one another in the first place?
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Dave, if a set of premises, taken together, lead to mutually contradictory conclusions, doesn't logic dictate that one or more of the premises must be abandoned?
Of course. The challenge facing us in a paradox is that they all look rock solid and we do not know what to abandon.
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But how are these infinite sets of points to be distinguished from one another in the first place?
If we are talking about the world of math, you make initial assumptions, say the axioms of settheory. You prove from them the existence of real numbers. You call each real number a point. Two points a and b are the same if they satisfy the equation a=b. If not they are different.
@Dave: Mathematical reasoning admits the use of arguments which have an infinite number of logical steps in order to reach a conclusion, so long as the terminus of that infinite chain of reasoning can be proven using some other method than blindly applying each step. I don't think Zeno believed that and I think that's the root cause of his paradoxes.
For example, consider the sum of any geometric series, such as 1/2+1/4+1/8... (a=1, r=1/2). Its sum does not merely "approach" a/(1-r), it is actually equal to a/(1-r) unless there's something wrong with the axioms of mathematics or the deductive reasoning used in the proof. My favorite infinite sum - because it is so shocking - was independently proved by Euler and Ramanujan using completely different methods: 1+2+3+4+... = -1/12.
One way to see why infinite chains of reasoning are admissable is to consider the very definition of natural numbers in terms of the successor function (Peano arithmetic). How many natural numbers are there? Well, there's at least one, 1, because we assume it. But we can make another: 2 = s(1). And another, 3 = s(2). In order that there be a finite number of natural numbers, we would have to show that this s() function "breaks down" at some point. Otherwise, there's no reason it shouldn't always produce another greater number each time it is applied, y = s(x), y>x. Hence, we have an infinite chain of s()'s extending as far as the mind's eye can see and beyond and there's nothing wrong with it because one property of a natural number is that - no matter how large it is - it always has a successor. There are two possible answers to the question "how many natural numbers are there?" - if you don't admit the existence of infinity the answer is "there is no number that describes how many natural numbers there are" but if you do admit the existence of infinity, then the answer is "infinity, in particular, aleph-0."
Once you admit the existence of infinity (which the ancient Greeks, to my knowledge, did not), all of Zeno's paradoxes disappear because he assumes you cannot have a completed/real/actual infinity.
Clayton -
First paragraph: Doesn't show exactly where his mistake is. Set up his syllogysm, point out the line that is in error, and why it is in error. Vague handwaving about him not grasping infinity doesn't cut it. What exactly did he not understand? At which exact line of his reasoning did he err? Why is he wrong at that particular line?
Second paragraph: I've quoted you chapter and verse from a universally respected math book that says quite clearly that you are mistaken.
The axioms of math do not say nor lead to a conclusion that the sum is a/1-r, unless we redefine sum to be least upper bound. Hardy spelled it all out for you. I challenge you to show me the chain of reasoning that proves from the axioms of math that it "actually is" a/1-r. If it's true, you should be able to dig it up rather easily.
Third paragraph: irrelevant [see comment on fourth paragraph].
Fourth paragraph: Existence of infinity does not imply Zeno's paradoxes disappear. He does not assume the existtence or nonexistence of completed/real/actual infinity. Whether it exists or not is beside the point. Completed real actual infinity will not come to your rescue and show that a geometric series actually sums to a/1-r.
a/1-r is still the least upper bound, nothing more nothing less. The epsilons and inequalities cannot be wiped away.
Like I say, show me anyone who says otherwise. Here is the set of all math books and mathemeticians who agree with you: {}.
@Dave: You're confusing analysis with proof. Sum_n( a*rn) = a/(1-r) actually, fully and without qualification. It's not "equal in the limit", it's not "equal to an arbitrarily small difference", it's completely, totally and exactly equal. The fact that n=0->oo is neither here nor there so long as you accept the exsitence of infinity.
You are misreading Hardy - far from saying that an infinite sum does not converge to its limit value. He says (in other words): "When we say that an infinite sum converges to its limit value, we also mean such-and-such about the partial sums of the series..." That's your own quote so I don't see why you're choosing to refute yourself and then imagine that that somehow is refuting us.
In my opinion where you and the analysis people go wrong is in trying to impart numerical "meaning" to every step of an infinite sum. Who cares about the partial sums? Maybe they don't even make sense. It doesn't matter so long as the formal structure of the sum equation is provably correct. If that's the case, then the rest is just pointless hand-wringing about the weirdness of numbers which could just be an indictment of our intuitive visualizations of numerical space. For example, the Koch snowflake encloses a finite area with a border of infinite length. Is that intuitive? Does that "make sense"? Not really, but it's true which is why I prefer to let the symbols do what the symbols want to do and avoid worrying about how to interpet the spatial relationships - if any - between them.
Can you link me to a summary of Zeno's argument which you would accept as close enough to syllogistic that I can respond to that instead of trying to read all of Zeno and rephrase in my own words?
Here is an example of two geometric proofs that infinite sums actually converge to the final value... no epsilons, no deltas, no limits, no fudge factors, absolute and total equality. These figures are the schematic answer to Zeno.
Smiling Dave:First paragraph: Doesn't show exactly where his mistake is. Set up his syllogysm, point out the line that is in error, and why it is in error. Vague handwaving about him not grasping infinity doesn't cut it. What exactly did he not understand? At which exact line of his reasoning did he err? Why is he wrong at that particular line? [Emphasis added.]
Dave, why do you make this demand of others in this thread when you haven't done this yourself?
I did, in the very first reply to this thread. I may have omitted that the flaw is in step 2 of Zeno's syllogysm, because i considered it obvious.
Are you talking about step 2 of the syllogism you present in this post? If so, then I'd say that steps 1 and 2 of the syllogism contradict one another. Step 1 says that the sum of an infinite series can never be reached by a finite partial sum, yet step 2 says that it can.
Smiling Dave,
Notice that Achilles never reaches the tortoise if and only if that series does not converge. It's not my problem if you don't understand what the series' physical interpretation is. Also, I sort of realized I made my argument more complicated than necessary. The same result can be found using the common linear kinematics formula
X = Xo + Vot + 1/2*at^2
So given constant velocity, we set the position of achilles and the tortoise equal.
V1*t = d + V2*t
and solve for t which is
d/(V1 - V2)
I just presented a more simpler proof above. But back to my original (long one), I think, for whatever reason, you have a hard time believing a series can equal a finite value. OKAY, but I know you at least accept that its bounded above by a finite value. That's pretty much all we need. The sum of the times for Achilles to move from position to position is bounded. Hence for any time greater than or equal to this bound, Achilles is at least as far as Tortoise in the race, but given that his speed is greater, he overtakes him.
1. Go to a university professor of mathematics that you trust and respect, and ask him if those pictures constitue a valid mathematical proof. He will explain that pictures have been rejected by the mathematical community for several hundred years as a valid method of proving anything. He will explain why they were rejected. He will explain that the universally accepted criteria for an acceptable proof for the last few hundred years is but one thing: A valid chain of deductive logic. No pictures allowed.
2. Even if we accept the notion that pictures can prove anything, the ones you linked to do not prove anything, because they are not accurate pictures. The flaw lies in those chains of dots that appear in all pictures of the infinite. You see, three dots in a picture mean but one thing: I, the artist, am not drawing something here. So you are presenting a fragment of a picture and claiming you have presented a complete picture. You rely on the reader to fill in the missing piece.
3. All those pictures are guilty of the fallacy known as begging the question.
For example, the picture that claims to prove that 1/2+1/4...=1 is guilty of begging the question. It assumes that the length of the side of the square composed of those infinite squares piled atop one another to be one. How does he know this?
But like I say, the main point here is 1. Points 2 and 3 are icing on the cake. Take care of 1. before bothering about the other two.
Here's a quasi-syllogism of the paradox (page 6):
• Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. • Achilles allows the tortoise a head start of 100 metres. • each racer starts runs at some constant speed • afer some fnite tme, Achilles will have run 100 metres, • During this tme, the tortoise has run 10 metres. • afer some fnite tme, Achilles will have run 10 more metres, • During this tme, the tortoise has run 1 more metre • ETC • Whenever Achilles reaches somewhere the tortoise has been, he stll has farther to go. • There are an infnite number of points Achilles must reach wherethe tortoise has already been. • He can never overtake the tortoise.
• Achilles allows the tortoise a head start of 100 metres.
• each racer starts runs at some constant speed
• afer some fnite tme, Achilles will have run 100 metres,
• During this tme, the tortoise has run 10 metres.
• afer some fnite tme, Achilles will have run 10 more metres,
• During this tme, the tortoise has run 1 more metre
• Whenever Achilles reaches somewhere the tortoise has been, he stll has farther to go.
• There are an infnite number of points Achilles must reach wherethe tortoise has already been.
• He can never overtake the tortoise.
As far as I can tell, this can be reduced to the following:
1. There are an infinite number of points that a person must reach to cover any distance (i.e. before reaching any other point).
2. To reach an infinite number of points requires an infinite amount of time.
3. Therefore a person can never cover any distance.
I submit that Zeno conveyed it the way he did, with an ever-decreasing amount of distance to yet reach, in order to make more intuitive the notion of a finite distance being composed of an infinite number of points. Strictly speaking, then, the geometric series isn't necessary. I maintain that the whole thing hinges on the notion that points exist as entities in the real world.
...yet step 2 says that it can.
You forgot about the parenthetic statement in step 2


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Date Posted: 2013/11/20
Just a quick message to say thanks so much to everyone who came out to see us during tour in October / November.
Particular highlights were Antrim, Belfast, Dublin, Inverness, Brighton, three shows in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, The Deep Red Sky, Owls In Antarctica, supports with Glasvegas, Appleseed Cast and the Fossil Collective, BandApp session (in the codebreaking Mecca that is Bletchely Park), ATL Session for the BBC, Arts Extra Session for the BBC, session in Downtown Radio with Siobhan, and Sunday Brunch with Ralph McLean (stunning croissants).
2013 is shaping up to be our best year to date thanks to all you folk, we really appreciate all the support and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people along the way.
RT @AidanJohnMoffat: When I'm this drunk and it's this late, Bonnie Tyler's all I fucking need. Bonnie Tyler should be all anyone needs.
7:40 AM Mar 6th via Twitter for Android
#Thetroublewith playing synth is that it's all too easy to get distracted by a patch & play the theme to Beverly Hills Cop for 10 mins
10:34 PM Mar 5th via Twitter for Android
One does get a bit silly of a Wednesday evening http://t.co/hVM6hwzfss
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NOM. Save us some ;) "@smokehouseN1: Shortrib to share. Special on tonight, not many left. Chop chop http://t.co/s4bKC9OQpb\"
6:17 PM Mar 5th via Twitter for Android
@jenncheng :O! Would. Have. Died.
12:27 AM Mar 5th via Twitter for Android
@jenncheng It's all about the creepy ass music. Without that it's just two little girls minding their own business in a hallway!
12:14 AM Mar 5th via Twitter for Android
@jenncheng a brave one you are, Jenn. I can't cope with scary films at the best of times, let alone late at night above a big old pub :S !
11:55 PM Mar 4th via Twitter for Android
Watching The Shining before bed. Yep, this can only end well #nosleeptonight
11:46 PM Mar 4th via Twitter for Android
This is definitely an alien. "@Earth_Pics: Welcome to the world little turtle. http://t.co/HFnF5DGCru\"
10:11 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for Android
@Coifsh better than a slap in the bake tbf!
10:09 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for Android
@jamesjmagill a little bit of me just died inside. Serious food envy. Hats off to you, Sir!
9:02 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for Android
@jamesjmagill power to the people! And their sandwiches, evidently. I'd love a sandwich.
8:57 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for Android
@oons_spoons Aw thanks! Really looking forward to this one :D should be great
8:55 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for Android
@jamesjmagill Can't beat a good sandwich.
8:33 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for Android
@AGRMoore I would encourage anyone who strays from this arrangement to reassess their life.
8:31 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for Android
(Let's not be ridiculous. It will always be bacon). #PancakeTuesday
8:27 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for Android
But what to have with said pancakes?! The choices are endless #PancakeTuesday
8:26 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for Android
I DO believe it's the eve of #PancakeTuesday . This pleases me greatly.
8:23 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for Android
RT @oons_spoons: Happy2announce @AmidshipsNI will join @7summitsmusic @Echo_Raptors @FeetForWings @OhYeahCentre for @100HelpHomeless https…
8:21 PM Mar 3rd via Twitter for Android
@acleverteapot an attempt to be suitably mysterious & poor predicative text = a gobbledygook tweet, 'if' will become 'when' very soon :)
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- Developer: Black Ops Entertainment
- Publisher: Encore Software, Inc.
- Genre: Action Shooter First-Person
- Release Date: Nov 18, 2003
- ESRB: Mature
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Pause the game during the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border mission, then press Circle(3), Square(3). Enemies will randomly appear as Osama Bin Laden. Note: They will still be normal in every way except appearance, and will not be a Boss opponent.
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