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Amazing Games

February 27th, 2006 Posted in Game Development
Feb, 27 2006
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Just try out these flash games… The games are simply brilliant, and really demonstrate the genius of their creator! The Grow type games give you a number of icons to click and add objects to the world, these objects evolve over time and your purpose is to get them to fully grow! You can’t imagine what he put it this simple concept! Read the rest of this entry »

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The 24/7 Internet experience

February 26th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized
Feb, 26 2006
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My ADSL line got activated yesterday! Until now I used to go online with a 56K modem over a phone line.. The experience of not having to connect to open a web page is awesome. It’s not that it is brand new to me. Since I’m used to it from the office at the university. But having this at home, is nice!!!

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Multithreading Game Engines for Multicore Machines

February 16th, 2006 Posted in Game Development, Programming
Feb, 16 2006
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With all the latest developments in the game console systems and the endorsement of multicore processors, I really got into the path of investigating what will it take to make an existing game engine that was written to run on one CPU, to run on a multicore-multicpu system. Read the rest of this entry »

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Status update

February 14th, 2006 Posted in Personal
Feb, 14 2006
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Ok… the party is over. The last few days was full! First of all I spend the weekend at Kastoria. It was perfect. After that the hard work of moving from Ioannina to Larissa was waiting for me. Read the rest of this entry »

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Got it!!!

February 8th, 2006 Posted in Master Thesis, Programming
Feb, 08 2006
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The race is over! The exams (oups.. presentation) started at 13:30!! It was over at 15:00… This is one hour and a half! The outcome: Success!!!

Finally my headaches are over. Now I have nothing to do, and I have to get used to it ;)

The image in the post is from the reconstructed bust of the famous Charioteer statue, that I used as an example that my reconstuction system works

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Waiting for the presentation

February 8th, 2006 Posted in Master Thesis, Personal
Feb, 08 2006
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Here I am, waiting for my master’s public presentation (which here are Ioannina means examination in public)… It was supposed to start at 12:00 but it will be delayed…

Time goes by so slowly… (Maybe I’m listening to much of mainstream radio stations lately!)

Wish me luck!!!

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Game development in Greece

February 7th, 2006 Posted in Game Development
Feb, 07 2006
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In the past I remember my self crying out all the time about the lack of game development in Greece. If you choose to be a programmer in Greece, you will be programming database applications… That was true until recently! Yesterday a friend (and respected graphics coder) decided to drop the bomb on my IM client. The bomb was of many megatons and its contained these two links: Read the rest of this entry »

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Creating a benchmark script for Sylphis3D

February 3rd, 2006 Posted in Sylphis
Feb, 03 2006
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Suppose that you want to benchmark a 3D game engine. What do you do? The common solution is:

  • Have a demo file to play
  • Play it on the benchmark machine
  • Count the time elapsed

Next is a script to do this in Sylphis3D: Read the rest of this entry »

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The Lake of Ioannina

February 3rd, 2006 Posted in Personal
Feb, 03 2006
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The city I am about leave behind is the city of Ioannina. I’ve been living here for two and a half years now and I must say I quite enjoyed it. The setting is magnificent, a vivid scenery. It has it all, mountains, lakes, forests… it even has an island in the lake!

The photograph in the post is from the Lake Pamvotis. The city lies at the western side of the lake. I don’t think that the photograph can really describe the real scenery, but you can extrapolate :) . Read the rest of this entry »

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I’m going to miss coffee

February 2nd, 2006 Posted in Personal
Feb, 02 2006
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Now that I’m going to the army, I’m really going to miss moments with friends at cafes. Here in Greece this must be the national sport for college students (and many others). I can’t count how many hours where burned talking about any matter around a table, drinking hot or ice coffee. Especially while I was in Athens, where meeting with friends indoors was hard. Most great ideas (that probably never came to life) where brought up at such places… For example Sylphis3D was designed mostly right there! But is was more than that… we used to talk about open source, politics, women, life, science… or nothing at all… there was no specific goal. Things were coming along… and that is nice.

Cheers my friends!!! Read the rest of this entry »

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