   wow! I just broke some nerdness record!
  This is totally new for me...In the past weeks I''ve been eating drinking and breathing my engine, working non-stop on it, multithreading, plugins, managed memory pools, etc...This night i was under REM sleep (where you dream) and I was thinking "hey, if i multiply a vector normal by a scalar, i can get any point along that vector"...What seems really simple now, had eluded me, and I didn''t just think it, i freakin SAW it! i saw the face, the vector normal as a line projecting from the face, and a small point moving back and forward along the vector projection...Now that what i call a tutorial!! I was so flabergasted i immediatly broke out of rem sleep and awoke, i have no idea what i was sleeping about, other than the vector story...I guess when you''re so INTO the stuff you do, sometimes your brain works at night too...I just hope i get some stencil shadow volumes dreams tonight On the other hand i feel like i broke some sort of nerdness record or something, lol [/yalst]  (yet-another-lounge-spamming-thread)   [Hugo Ferreira][Positronic Dreams][Colibri 3D Engine][Entropy HL2 MOD]    [Yann  L.][Enginuity]  [Penny Arcade]  [MSDN][VS  RoadMap][Humus][BSPs][UGP][NeHe]"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It''s the only way to be sure." 
  I once had a dream about solving a programming problem, except when I woke up and looked at what I wrote down, I found it to be complete bullshit. ;  That''s scary... ;  Passions are a good thing, obsessions are bad things?  Who can tell the difference.Cherish your dream. ;  I once dreamt I went to a strip club and while there - did my homework.  Try beating that! ;  i''ve done complex calculus problems in my sleep before. ;  Back when I was doing my honours project, part of the problem I was working on required me to find all intersections of a pair of parabolae... I''m sure it woud be easy now, but back then I spent a good couple of weeks on trying to get my code robust under all different cases.I definitely dreamt about intersecting parabolas.That wasn''t good. ;  REM sleep is the brain''s process of clearing out old crap and generally making sense of the information it has processed during the day. It makes perfect sense that it''ll work out your problem for you (it''s what brains do best!) when you''re not distracted by actually trying to solve it. ;  i once dreamed an improvement on Nashs'' Equilibrium in a cooperative game. I normally have lucid dreams, so i almost always remember every detail. i recounted it in my mind several times and forced myself to wake up. When i awoke, i felt the idea receeding back into my subconcious, kind of like trying to grab a shadow. really strange sensation(and probably was nonsensical in the first place)   Dredd________________________________________"To die with your sword still in its sheath is most regrettable" -- Miyomoto Musashi ;  I solve problems best in dreams.   - It''s a life''s work40% Off ALL Hosting Plans Until March!!!-ryan@lecherousjester.com 