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|Please note: This article is about the man who set fire to Toshi Ranbo wo Shien Shite Reigisaho. For other uses of the term, please see Esteban Cornejo (disambiguation).
Esteban Cornejo, like his namesake the first Esteban Cornejo, was a gaijin explosives master from Merenae. He was the man who set Toshi Ranbo wo Shien Shite Reigisaho on fire in 1165.
The Quest Edit
The Cornejo family was known to have more than a bit of magic in its blood. Esteban's great-grandfather Calixto Cornejo was plagued by nightmarish visions for thirty years of his grandson Alhundro trapped in shadow and screaming for release in the land of Rokugan. He also saw Toshi Ranbo wo Shien Shite Reigisaho in flames and a catastrophe that would bring Rokugan to ruin. [1]
Lost Descendant Discovered Edit
In 1164 Calixto received news from an unknown descendant in Rokugan lands, his great-grandson, Rodrigo Cornejo. Rodrigo had struggled to learn what he could about his gaijin blood. Through sporadic correspondences dispatched through the Burning Sands, he eventually made contact with Calixto. The old Cornejo sent his other great-grandson, Esteban Cornejo to find him. Esteban, realizing that there was real prophecy in these visions, arranged for a ship to bring him to Rokugan so that he could save his cousin and prevent the looming disaster. [1]
The Fires in Toshi Ranbo wo Shien Shite Reigisaho Edit
When he arrived in Toshi Ranbo wo Shien Shite Reigisaho, Esteban found explosives under many buildings in the city. Knowing that warnings from a lowly gaijin would go unheeded, Esteban placed a small number of explosives in the city as a diversion that he hoped would lead the Rokugani to find the other caches. Tragically, Esteban under-estimated the skill of the saboteur and number of explosives in the city, and his well-meaning alarm detonated many of the original bombs, leading to massive chaos. [1]
Initially Esteban escaped the Crane Clan guards [2] but he was finally taken into custody by the Crane during the fires and held in the capital until he was used by Daidoji Kikaze to find the true saboteur. With information given to them by Otomo Hoketuhime, they, Daidoji Tani, and Daidoji Takihiro were led to Esteban's long lost cousin, Rodrigo Cornejo, in an Ashalan hideout in the Plains Above Evil. Rodrigo met his end when he set off a suicide bomb in an unsuccessful attempt to kill his cousin Esteban. [1]
Ashalan Edit
Esteban found his cousin Alhundro, corrupted by the Shadows and twisted into the service of the Ashalan. Alhundro revealed that it was he who set the original explosives in Toshi Ranbo on the orders of his masters as part of their alliance with Bayushi Atsuki's Shadowed Tower. The Ashalan Rashol captured Esteban and Takihiro and tried to bend them to their will. [3]
Shadow Dragon Edit
Esteban was subtly aided by the Shadow Dragon, heir of the Lying Darkness. Atsuki sought to command the power of the Nothing, and he partially succeeded with Alhundro. The Shadow Dragon fought him without openly revealed himself, but Esteban sensed his presence twice. [3] The Dragon weakened the control exerted by the Ashalan to Esteban, and he was able to free himself. [4]
Escape Edit
Esteban escaped his prison, released Takihiro, and fought Rashol, who was killed by Takihiro. Alhundro appeared from the Shadows, to take Esteban with him, as Atsuki commanded. Takihiro slew Alhundro with a crystal tattooing needle, releasing him from his torture. The Rokugani armies outside of the Ashalan fortress defeated the Ashalan forces, preventing the catastrophe Calixto and the Naga had foreseen. His quest was sucessful, though his fate remained unknown. [4]
Established in Rokugan Edit
After their return Kikaze announced that Esteban Cornejo would be an official guest of the Crane for the indefinite future. The Crane Clan Champion, Doji Kurohito, requested the Emperor permission to assemble an honor fleet of vessels to make the journey to Merenae. The Mantis representatives supported by the Lion presented the Mantis Charter issued by Toturi I which officially referenced them as the Imperial Navy. [5]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fires of Toshi Ranbo, Part Two, by Rich Wulf
- ↑ Blood Dawn, Part III: Blackened Silk, by Rich Wulf
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fires of Toshi Ranbo, Part Three, by Rich Wulf
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fires of Toshi Ranbo, Part Four, by Rich Wulf
- ↑ News of Rokugan (Imperial Herald v2#18)
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The following is a result of some inspiration from a photo and from listening to Bruno Mars' song It Will Rain (which is on the Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 OST) one too many times. Also, the weather and skies yesterday really had me going. This song kills me. Bruno out did himself with this and just… yeah. I have an over active mind and get very easily inspired by songs.
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It isn't until I see the lilacs mixed with deeper purples that my temper is contained. The clouds set in and for some reason they calm me. Tranquility runs through me as the skies clash and mix, bringing in the moon as the cold surrounds me. The numbness my body feels to the temperature should keep the rest of me from feeling, should keep me sane. It's the chill of the wind that whips around me which sends my body into shivers as I look to the west already missing the warmth. Though the slight view of the hot sun setting is still vivid, I feel none of it and the cold becomes welcoming.
The sight fills me with longing and the only thing remaining warm are the tears in my eyes. My cheeks remain dry as they fall only to be wiped away quickly by the hostile winds. And just like the sand, they're gone and being carried away as a miniature sandstorm. No more memories of her spirit or of the warmth she would surround me with. Now that the sun is set, chased away by the night, the only warmth left behind are the feelings of that need. Only the want and desperation of needing her close to me in more ways than one are all that remain apparent.
The white and gray clouds pass, following the red and orange that has now disappeared completely. The purples have followed it, leaving me with the dull and clear blue night sky. It's dark and lonely with barely ten stars joining it. I stand in the sand wishing I didn't feel as hard as stone. Wishing the raging wind gust would take me away from the unpleasantness of life without her and its wretched freeze that has turned my once bright soul dark.
I stay and stare at the dark sky, watching its nothingness. It's large and vast. The wind has died but the chill remains. Its silence reminds me that I am alone and she is not here anymore. I close my eyes and wish to be the sun; to be warm and bright once again… or to be the purple in the sky.
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Does the post-Sept. 11 thirst for genuine heroes, not just those who play them, mean an end to the celebration of ''success'' and the culture of celebrity?
Not a chance. They are too deeply ingrained. But maybe the newfound respect for real work and the sacrifices of regular workers will finally lead to profound misgivings about just how far the rewards of the American economy have tilted in recent years toward the favored few.
In a recent issue of The Milken Institute Review, Edward N. Wolff, an economist at New York University, reports on his latest findings concerning the striking contrast in the last two decades between the fortunes of the upper tier of the wealth rankings and the broad middle class.Continue reading the main story
Mr. Wolff looked at the most recent available data from the Federal Reserve on the wealth of American households, which goes through 1998. Not surprisingly, he found 1983 through 1998 -- when the economy prospered and the stock market boomed -- produced many millionaires.
The number of households with a net worth of more than $1 million nearly doubled, to 4.78 million from 2.41 million. At the same time, the ranks of the truly rich exploded even more, with those worth more than $10 million nearly quadrupling, to 239,000 from about 67,000.
That's great. A rich society like the United States should have plenty of rich people -- and the more the merrier. But what is disturbing is what happened to just about everybody else.
''The richest 1 percent accumulated 53 percent of the total gain in marketable wealth over the 1983-1998 period,'' Mr. Wolff wrote. ''The next 19 percent received another 39 percent, so that the top quintile accounted for 91 percent of the total growth in wealth, while the bottom 80 percent accounted for a mere 9 percent.''
''The results indicate rather dramatically,'' he added, ''that the fruits from economic growth in the last few decades were enjoyed by a surprisingly small part of the population -- the top 20 percent, and particularly the richest 1 percent.''
WHO'S in that 20 percent? Well, it may well include people like you. The line dividing the top fifth from everybody else fell somewhere around $250,000 in 1998, meaning that anybody with solid home equity of say, $100,000, modest savings and investments of at least $50,000 and a retirement account of more than $100,000 belongs to the winning upper crust.
And who's not? Many of the firefighters and rescue workers, of course, who rushed into the World Trade Center inferno. But it also includes millions inside government and out -- teachers and nurses, social workers and telephone repair people -- whose worth has been steadily devalued in the nation's excessive pursuit of private gain over public service.
''There's been an enormous rush of recognition that working people are immensely more valuable than the rewards they've received in recent years,'' said Robert H. Frank, an economics professor at Cornell University, whose book, ''The Winner-Take-All Society,'' (The Free Press, 1995) written with Philip J. Cook, explored why cultural and technological trends have lately concentrated so much more wealth and influence in the economy's top positions.
''But unless the change in attitudes kindled by the assault is translated into a change in public policy, nothing will be different,'' Mr. Frank said. ''We need to pay our public servants more and treat them with better respect. We have to recognize the impoverished level of many basic public services and confront our nation's big inventory of unmet needs. That's where our politics have failed us.''
Judging by the current debate over how best to put together an economic stimulus package, our politics still have a long way to go. The House of Representatives just passed a bill that includes a host of tax breaks for business and speeds up individual tax cuts -- but only for families with incomes of at least $65,000.
That seems backward. Not only is the war demanding real sacrifices from the working Americans who will be fighting it, but the recession will invariably hit hardest at the most vulnerable in society. Shouldn't those who already have the most be called on to sacrifice something, too?Continue reading the main story


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This flexible collection offers a wealth of excellent material for singing in rounds. All of the standard rounds are represented, including many by master composers as well as anonymous ones. The book is
Introduce young singers to classic patriotic and folk songs while developing independent part-singing. Included are reproducible student pages and easy-to-teach staging suggestions. Songs include:
From Thanksgiving through New Years, this delightful collection of partner songs provides a host of harmonic fun for young singers. Everything you need is under one cover - piano/vocal accompaniments,
This all-in-one format comes complete with piano/vocal accompaniment, choreography and reproducible singer pages. Songs include City Life (with I Love The Mountains); All I Do Is Work (with I've Been
Take a giant leap toward independent part singing with this incredible collection of 52 rounds, canons, partner songs, and short songs for use throughout the school year. Elizabeth Gilpatrick's clever
Introduce young singers to beginning part-singing and experience a variety of world cultures with these flexible folksongs. The reproducible singer songsheets feature each folksong and its partner on
Grab Another Partner features 12 partner songs, each utilizing a well-known melody. Included are Christmas favorites (Over the River, Jingle Bells), multicultural folk songs
The singing of partner songs is a great way to develop independent two-part singing with your young performers. Grab A Partner! features 12 partner songs, each utilizing a well-known melody.
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There has been a lot talk over the past few years about the role of bacteria in our general health, as it pertains to everything from obesity to immune disfunction and I have learned first hand the effect of an imbalanced microbiome- the term used to describe the community of bacteria that live in and on our bodies. For many years I was very sick with Rheumatoid Arthritis, an "incurable and degenerative" auto-immune disease that causes systemic inflammation and directly targets the the joints.
After years of being sick, I came to understand that bacteria played a key role in both my getting sick and my process to healing. I often get asked about "good" and "bad" bacteria and I think that's indicative of one of the fundamental flaws in how we, as Americans, tend to look at health. It's not about good versus evil, but about balance, something that often seems hard for us to acheive in our daily lives. Working enough that we're challenged and successful, but not so much that we forget the importance of play. Monoculture is not good for us in any way, shape or form. Sure, kale is a great vegetable, but if you only eat kale, you're gonna get sick. The same goes for our microbiome- the secret sauce is really to maintain a broad spectrum, a wide variety of bacteria. This helps us metabolism our foods, strengthen our immune systems and keeps us happy.
So how do we do it? Well, I think it's important to look back to move forward. Traditional cultures around the world have innately understood the importance of fermenting foods. In very basic terms, fermentation involved innoculating foods with specific bacteria that our bodies can tolerate to inhibit the growth of bacteria that our bodies can't tolerate. Now this is obviously a very oversimplified explanation of fermentation, but it's essentially how it works. Traditionally fermentation has been an amazing technique with a two-fold positive effect: it naturally preserves the shelf life of specific foods (think sourkrout) while helping to diversify our microbiome.
I believe that the key to a strong immune system and a healthy microbiome is to eat foods that are both pre-biotic AND pro-biotic. What this means is having foods in our diet that feed the bacteria that live in our guts in addition to adding in foods that are already populated with diverse bacteria. It's actually not as difficult as it sounds, here's how you do it:
Regularly incorporate foods like artichokes, asparagus, dark leafy greens, brassicas (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage) and then sprinkle in some pro-biotic foods like yogurt or kefir, kim chee and sour krout. It doesn't mean that you have to eat a whole bowl of any of these things every but rather think of them as parts of a bigger picture of the spectrum of foods. For instance, I try to have a bite of fermented vegetables, a swig of kefir and some living vinegar at some point every day. Then I make sure that my meals are predominantly vegetable focused and have plenty of pre-biotic vegetables. Here's a terrific and easy dish that incorporates all of these things in one recipe:
For the Salad
- 1 pound Brussels Sprouts, shaved paper thin on a mandoline or with a food processor
- 1 Apple, I like Braeburn or Winesap apples, finely sliced
- 1 shallot, finely sliced
- 4 radishes, thinly sliced
- 2 TBSP fresh mint, minced
- 2 TBSP fresh basil, minced
- salt and pepper to taste
- Combine in a salad bowl
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- 1/3 cup cider vinegar
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Arizona allows candidates with 120 credit hours to sit for the exam. However, in order to get the CPA license, you will have to fulfill the standard 150 credit hour requirement.
For working experience verification, your supervisor may not need to be a CPA, but he should have experience equivalent to one and he will need to supply resume and job description as evidence.
Arizona CPA Requirements
1. Education Requirements to Sit for the Exam
- Bachelor degree or above.
- Complete 120 credit hours.
- Accounting courses: 24 credit hours (12 hours in intermediate/advanced level).
- Other required courses: 18 credit hours of "related" courses. Check out the CPA Exam FAQ link below on the required subjects.
2. Additional Arizona CPA Requirements to Obtain the License
- 150 credit hours from an accredited university or educational institution.
- Accounting courses: 36 credit hours (30 hours in intermediate/advanced level).
- Other required courses: 30 credit hours of "related" courses. Please click on the Certification FAQ link below on the required subjects.
- 1 year in the office of a CPA, private industry, or government that has exposed the applicant to and provided the applicant with experience in the practice of accounting.
- Arizona State Board accepts non-CPA supervisors to verify your experience but the person(s) must:
- have a role similar to an active US CPA licensee.
- "must attach a resume and a job description to verify they have the education and experience to oversee a potential CPA candidate". For details, please check out the AZ state Board FAQ.
- Part-time work can be accepted as long as the candidate can demonstrate that the experience is equivalent to the standard one-year full-time requirement.
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Ethics Qualifications
- Pass the CPA ethics exam administered by AICPA.
3. Arizona CPA Requirements on Residency and Age
- US citizenship not required.
- Arizona residency not required.
- If candidates do not have social security number, they can write a letter to the State Board and explain the situation.
- Minimum age: 18.
4. Fees
- First-timers: $774 + application fee.
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CPE is required for license holders. Please click here for Arizona CPA CPE requirements.
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- CPA educational requirements: Rules, Obstacles and Solutions
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Many readers have strong feelings about their books as physical objects—the slew of articles from the late 2000's and early 2010's about the pros and cons of ereaders vs physical books prove that.
The arguments for physical books generally center around the attachments people create with those physical objects—the smell of the pages, memories of how, where and when the object was acquired, whether the physical object holds notes or dog-ears or cracked spines or the weight of previous reads.
But what about when one loses that physical object? Recently, as I reorganized my shelves, I realized my ten-year-old copy of City of Bones was missing. I remembered lending it out to someone, but not who. I posted on facebook searching for it, but whoever I lent it to has not responded.
Some people would likely be enraged at the loss off such a valuable object—a couple years ago, I might have been. City of Bones is one my favorite books, and that copy contained a litany of notes and underlines from the many times I read it, as well as the key to my colored tabs for the entire series. Quite a loss.
And yet, even as I asked on facebook for the identity of whoever I had lent it to, I was peaceful. Even as others commented on the post, working themselves up on the loss of the book, I was surprisingly okay with it. That object, while precious to me, did not contain the joy it had given me. I contain the joy it had given to me. And the joy I have yet to take from the story—well, that will come from another copy. Another physical object, that might hold just as much or more meaning than the previous one had.
I find myself actually excited to encounter this new physical object. Will I buy it or will it be gifted to me? Will I borrow it, from a friend, or the library? Will I shell out an extra ten dollars or so to get the UK paperback, with the really pretty cover, or will come across it at secondhand bookstore and pick it up for two bucks? Will it be a new copy, or a used copy? Will that used copy contain the weight of its previous reads and readers, just like my lost copy, wherever it is now, does?
In this way, thinking about the lost book in this way, has allowed me to let it roll off my shoulders pretty easily, though I question how applicable this approach is. Would my reaction be the same if I lost my paperback copy of Divergent, or my Collector's Edition of Divergent, both of which hold vale to me more as physical objects than receptacles of the story, which I am quite critical of? What if my copy of City of Bones had cost me 20 or more dollars? I'm pretty stingy, so I think I'd take issue. What if it had been a signed copy, or a copy given to me by a friend who's now gone? How much value do certain objects hold?
I can't be sure of the answer, or how I'll react the next time I lose a book. But this experience, this particular way of approaching the loss of the book not as a loss of it's story or a loss of it's memories, but a loss of the object alone, has taught me a lot about how I regard books and stories and memories.
As for the saying "a book lent is a book lost", the solution is very simple: never lend a book, always give it away.
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This was my 3rd project whilst studying naval architecture. It calculates tank volume and inertia using cubic splines. It had a really basic shell definition algorithm. After you define shell you need to create tanks using Aft, Forward, Top and Bottom values. Software automatically trim geometry using outer shell. Unfortunately it can only be used for simple geometry. You can't create complex geometries with this software.
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Now, i work in the design industry and i know this simple geometries are hard to see. So i am planning to make a revision with the code, so that it will accept solid geometries.


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This Tuesday, voters in McDowell will go to the polls to pick their candidates for the County Commission, the N.C. Senate, a N.C. Supreme Court justice seat, the U.S. Senate and other statewide offices.
The early voting period ended at 1 p.m. Saturday. As of Thursday, Deputy Director of Elections Janice Carpenter said 515 people have turned out to cast their ballots at the CountyAdministrationBuilding in Marion and 120 people have voted early at the Old Fort branch library.
"To me, it's a little bit slow," said Carpenter Friday morning.
Voting in Tuesday's primary will be held at all 17 precincts in McDowell. The polls will open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians will be asked to nominate their candidates for various races. Unaffiliated voters can participate too but they first must declare a party preference.
Only two local races are on the ballot for the primary election.
Local Republicans and Democrats will have to choose their three candidates for the McDowell County Commission. Three seats on the board are up for election this year. Seven Republicans and four Democrats are on the ballot for the CountyCommission. The seven Republicans are incumbent David Walker and challengers Jake Asta, Chris Allison Tony Brown, Tom Fleming, Matthew Crawford and Lynn Greene. The four Democrats running for CountyCommission are Dean Henline, Gary Loudermilk, Michelle Price and Virginia Williams. The top three winners from each party will go on to face each other in the November election.
Republicans in McDowell, Madison, Avery, Mitchell, Polk and Rutherford will also have to pick a candidate for the N.C. Senate's 47th District. Two Republicans, incumbent Ralph Hise and McDowell's Michael Lavender, are on the primary ballot for this office. This is the real contest because no Democrat from the 47th District has filed to run for this Senate seat.
GOP voters will also be asked to choose their candidate for the U.S. Senate. Eight Republicans are on the statewide ballot for the U.S. Senate seat.
In the Democratic primary, local Democrats will be asked to make their choices for U.S. Senate and the 11th Congressional District seat in the U.S. House.
The Libertarians will have a primary too. They will be asked to pick their candidate for the U.S. Senate.
In addition, voters of all political affiliations will be asked to pick a candidate for the associate justice on the N.C. Supreme Court.
The 17 precincts and their polling places are: Marion No. 1, Marion Elementary School; Marion No. 2, East McDowell Junior High School; Marion No. 3, Clinchfield Methodist Fellowship Hall; Marion No. 4, First Freewill Baptist Church Fellowship Building; Marion No. 5, Cross Mill Church of God Fellowship Building; Pleasant Gardens, Pleasant Gardens Baptist Church; West Marion, McDowell Senior Center; Crooked Creek, Crooked Creek Fire Department; Dysartsville, Dysartsville Fire Department; Glenwood, Glenwood Fire Department; Higgins, N.C. Highway Patrol station; Montford Cove, Sugar Hill Fire Department; Nebo, Nebo Elementary School; North Cove, Ashford/North Cove Fire Department; Old Fort No. 1, Old Fort First Baptist Church Fellowship Building; Old Fort No. 2, Old Fort Wesleyan Fellowship Building; and Turkey Cove, North Cove Elementary.
People will be able to get the results Tuesday night in the commission boardroom on the first floor of the CountyAdministrationBuilding, said Carpenter.
For more information, contact the McDowell County Board of Elections at 652-7121, ext. 342.


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joekarl replied to joekarl's topic in General and Gameplay Programming@MarekKnows yeah this is what I ended up doing. Works well enough for the enemy movement and makes the code super clean. Using ascii for the tilemap so a little different but same concept.
joekarl replied to joekarl's topic in Math and PhysicsSo I go through, calculate all of the potential collisions, find the first one, resolve it. Because it can create new collisions after the resolution I should re-calculate all collisions from that point forward, go resolve the first one, and then repeat this process for the rest of the step ya?
joekarl posted a topic in Math and PhysicsJust wanting to get some clarification on some collision detection thoughts. This is all 2D to keep things simple and no rotations. In a dynamic impulse based resolution system (ie multiple bodies moving around, when they collide we apply forces to them for the next frame) it seems that there's only a couple of ways that I can go about detecting where/when collisions are going to happen. Say I have a list of bodies, I can either attempt to move them one at a time to their next collision point (ie sequential movement) or I can attempt to find the soonest collision point of all of the bodies, move all of the bodies to that point, and then repeat until the timestep is finished (ie simulataneous movement). In the first case, ordering of the objects matters as collisions may or may not occur based on which bodies is moved first. In the second case, this involves multiple iterations over the bodies to do all of the movement and seems more complex but seems much more accurate. I've seen it mentioned (or at least it seems) that many games use the first case as it's easier to implement, faster, and the ordering effects aren't noticeable. While this seems like it would be just fine I just can't get over the fact that it's not deterministic if the order of objects changes :/ It could also be that I'm completely misunderstanding this... Thoughts or resources related to this subject would be greatly appreciated.
joekarl replied to joekarl's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingI guess the 0 wall thickness thing is more for the tilemap approach as there's no physics object per wall, the wall is more of just for display instead of actually impeding the players motion which is governed by the tilemap. I guess I was being a bit hasty in thinking the wall collision version had to have a 0 thickness wall. Got some prototype stuff up and running with the tilemap setup. Basic idea is the enemies pick a tile adjacent to their current tile that they want to go to (so long as it won't go through a wall) and then travel to that tile. Once there they decide to go to another tile. Rinse, repeat. https://youtu.be/-Lh3mQhsS08
joekarl posted a topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingThe idea here is we have a tight maze (ie, a maze with 0 thickness walls and movement only along the x,y axis). This differs from say Pacman where the walls are a full tile thick. A specific example of this is Wizard of Wor. So I think there's a couple ways to go about this: I could create a list of walls for the level and then do collision detection against the walls. This seems to work fairly well collision wise as movement is just a general thing with sliding against the walls. Problem is collision detection is pretty complicated due to the walls not actually having any size physics wise. The other option is to create a tilemap with each tile knowing which side(s) it has walls on. Movement is more complicated because you're moving from point to point in the grid. This is nice because AI can make decisions about where it wants to go strictly when it hits grid points. At a glance how do you think this sort of thing was implemented in the past? (I'm guessing it was probably the the tilemap way as it's be less CPU to do this).
joekarl replied to joekarl's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingOkay, so I'm doing some clipping to cut down on the surface area that I'm actually drawing. Right now thats being done before I'm rasterizing the polygon which is resulting in non-triangle polygons when I get to rasterization. So how should I go about avoiding those 4+ vertice polygons?
joekarl posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI'm working on a software rasterizer just for grins and I'm to the point where I want to implement smoothing between different colors at vertices across a polygon. From what I've read, it consists of calculating a scan line, calculating the colors at the ends of the scan line, and then linearly interpolating across that scan line to get the color at a single point. My question is how to calculate the color at the end of the scan line for polygons with 4+ points. 3 points is pretty straight forward (though I haven't actually done the calculations yet), but 4 is a bit harder to wrap my head around. Anyone have any good resources (or code) to get me started?
joekarl replied to joekarl's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI suppose I should be looking into loose octrees as opposed to straight octrees. So how do you order the polygons that reside in a parent node when you go to render the polygons? It seems there's still going to be ordering issues with the polygons in the parent and its child nodes. Is that where you punt and create a z-buffer for just that node in the octree and use that to order the pixels in those nodes? Seems like that wouldn't work well for really large polygons like a floor, but that could be a know limitation and the floor could be constructed of lots of smaller polygons.
joekarl posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI'm building a 3d software renderer for grins to learn the math and rendering concepts. I've implemented the basic drawing of polygons with some basic optimizations like back face culling and frustrum culling. Its going pretty well for it being java and all (15k polygons at 30fps at 1900x1080) but I want to implement an Octree to reduce the amount of overdraw happening and correctly sort the polygons for drawing without using a z-buffer for the entire screen. I get the basic ideas of how to partition the world and how to traverse the tree from front to back to order the polygons correctly, but I'm a bit confused on how to handle polygons that are in more than one node of the Octree. Some example cases I'm concerned about are:[list] [*]A floor of 2 big polygons that intersect all of the nodes at the bottom of the Octree [*]A polygon that extends across a node boundary [/list] I figure I should split the polygon at the node boundaries, but then do I need to check on each frame for objects that have moved in the world that need recalculation in the Octree.


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Private television companies, which pass off as foreign telecasting companies (FTC), soon may have to pay much more in taxes. The Budget session of Parliament is expected to come out with a rational taxation systems for FTCs to bring them on par with the domestic telecasting companies.
The government is working on ending the discrimination, as 90 per cent of the television broadcasters operating from the country are misusing the "presumptive profit provision". Expect four to five Southern TV channels, all the domestic TV channels are enlisted as FTC so that they can take advantage of the special provision granted to FTCs.
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