Category archives: Snaking

Wrapped up the GLU quadrics code, and the selection-set processing code (along with some other bits and pieces) so that the OpenGL-ctypes code can run PyGame-hosted versions of a number of the OpenGLContext demos. Most notably the selection demos (which use lots of spheres :) ).

Next step is probably to work on the image-handling ...

The steps at night
Quiet even in the daylight
Ask me to sit with them
Gaze down that longest avenue
Where perfect pretty people preen
Upon each other
Shopping for flesh dressed up
To kill
They don't ask me
They want to look beyond
To stars hanging above them
With cool breezes to refresh
And ...

Eventual goal:

• Provide a democratised narrowcast-capable media marketplace
• Content producers must be paid (likely in proportion to the popularity of their work, though a patronage system or the like may also be present to encourage unpopular expression)
• As much as possible, no choke points should be built in to allow control over the forms of ...

Long day today. It is officially the weekend, but I was too tired to go out or do anything this evening. Decided to spend some time on OpenGL-ctypes. Basically just made the GLUT callback code a little more generalised, but in doing so I seem to have tripped up somewhere, as I'm now getting weird ...

Today was spent getting the feature-display and selection mechanisms written. The annoying part is that it's all been done so many times before it's depressing to think that I'm writing it myself. Oh well.

Not much else going on, got up, worked, took a short nap, worked more, now need to get to sleep. As ...

Today was spent on database design for the sip front-end project. All in all fairly productive, we've got the whole thing nicely isolated so that it only needs two references to outside schema. It's fairly straightforward as a design, and shouldn't cause any problems (so expect to hear about lots of frustration and heartache ;) ...

Couldn't sleep, so decided to enhance a demo I wrote a few days ago when someone asked about how to do observable fields/properties in Python. OpenGLContext's VRML97 scenegraph is built out of observable fields, and we have a number of observable BasicProperty sub-classes in Cinemon, but BasicProperty itself hasn't had a "standard" observability story.

Backing ...

Couldn't get much of Tim or D'Arcy's time today, so much of my time was spent in frustration. I've noticed as I get older that I scream more at the computer.

Eventually I had to admit defeat and decide to wait until someone who knows the system explains what the freakin heck I need to ...

I go farther
Knowing nothing
Can bring me back

Finally got the glutInit function working (and, in fact, enough of GLUT to do a "hello world" with it). I even went to the extreme of adding a test case to ctypes that deals with a similarly structured argument set. The problem, it turned out, was that I was using the auto-generated wrapper, which had ...