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20. - 28.9.2005
Spent a fortune, seen a lot of happy people.
The problem is that they have no access to any information in this world.
They live, and believe that someday will be better !
And it will be, it will be.

Heard a lot of The Beatles and even more salsa.
Need some noise now, to clear my mind !

Motorcycles

Keep the Pace, drive safe and always wave to bikers !

Any how, i have been rather busy working on some very interesting stuff i can not talk about.
There are plenty of shaders, HDR, some behavioral and dynamic animation, and a lot of AI.

Coding

I have re-written a sound capture plugin - that can capture from 4 stereo lines (8 channels max) and rewrote all blend shape calculation functions.
I have tried to do it in a simple way and do things realy fast.

Ah yes, multichannel sound comes from USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/s) device capable of delivering 96kHz, but i am taking 44.1 only. Not that i would need this much for what i do with streams (8000 Hz would suffice)

When app was up and running, after all the characters were properly set, a sudden frame rate drop occured. Why ?

It seems that audio device completly slows down the computer.

Ah yes, did the proper material library for shaders. PS2.0
Diffuse,Phong,Blinn,Minnaert,Oren-Nayar, Ward,Schlick,Cook-Torrance.
Versions are: noTex,Tex,Bump,Environment+Bump

So shaders anyone ?

Books

I got new credit card and guess what: i went spending right away - i wanted Books - not one, but a whole shelf of them; and i bought them all, the ones that were on my list for some time, the recommended ones, the ones that others also bought when they bought the recommended one. shit. i spent a small fortune for the books in a matter of minutes.
ok, at least i didn't bought a car. But i might get a motorcycle. After i'll read all the books, of course.

And I got a Laptop

Nice piece and i sure as hell don't understand why they put home edition xp on hardware like this.
Disks are kinda slow, but display is superb and battery life is quite good. I like it. I like that it has Radeon 9600/9700, so i can run all PS2.0 on it, but once it comes to floating point textures, 64MB vram is just not enough.
One more thing i don't understand with notebook manufacturers is, why do they have to put so many different progies with it. Do i realy need a touch pad icon, a touch and launch, a zoom an X icon and 30 other small never gona-to-be used programs loaded, expanding over half of the task bar? come on. I disabled most of them, and still there is like 17 icons. Hey! Don't waste my desk space, I need it for other things (icons probably).