So, I wanted to experiment with actionscript, flex and iPhone, but I do not have a mac and I am not really keen to pay 99$ just to make some plain experiments; besides I have not intention to make a living out of it, so I do not think it was really a good investment […]
Please note, this article refers to an old version of the TaskRunner which is not supported anymore. The latest version is here. Every now and then it is necessary to run a series of tasks in a given order, for example to guarantee that some data has been downloaded before to continue the execution of the application. […]
knowing how short my memory is, I saved all my professional life memories in a folder on my HD. Some of those memories are meaningful only to me, but why not sharing my first, completed game (yeahh it was 1997…I think) ? The version I am linking is actually the second version of the really […]
Some time ago I collected some notes about Perlin Noise all over the web (sorry I don’t remember the original articles). These notes were finalized to implement a GPU coherent noise based smoke effect. I reckon these notes could be useful for somebody else as well.
This short, not mathematical, introduction written in 2005, explains why I worked on a Global Illumination System and what it is. This article is not part of the objectives of this blog, but I anyway liked the idea to add it.