Charilaos Kalogirou

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Master Thesis

3D reconstruction from photographs

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on December 28, 2005December 28, 2005

I just realised that all this time I talk about my thesis, while I never took the time to describe what I am doing! So in my masters thesis I try to do three-dimensional reconstruction. Actually I was trying, because now it works.

Personal

Shopping for man and woman

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on December 27, 2005December 28, 2005

First of all… Merry Christmas to you all. I know it is a bit late but better now than never. I was unable to post the last days, since I was on vacation. I was shopping with a friend of mine on Christmas eve and while we where on the men’s department of a clothing […]

Personal

I hate compiler/grammar/language theory

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on December 13, 2005December 13, 2005

Lately I was forced to study some papers on compiler theory. You know: context-free, context-sensitive, boolean grammars etc. God! I forgot how much I despise all that.

Uncategorized

No alarms and no pretty garden

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on November 18, 2005November 18, 2005

Cracked eggs, dead birds… I can’t help the feeling, I could break through the ceiling blame it on the satellite that beams me home

Programming

Exceptions and execution speed

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on November 12, 2005November 12, 2005

This post was triggered by a comment by Alex Hunsley on the Multithreaded Game Scripting post. Alex correctly points out that while setting up a “try” for an exception costs nothing, raing an exception does! The question however is whether using exceptions is a speed overkill in the altar of code readability

Personal Uncategorized

SouthPark

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 18, 2005October 18, 2005

Found this very entertaining site today : South Park Studio. This is a flash application that allows you make South Park characters! The image is me, South Park style! You can waste many happy hours trying to create your friends!

Personal

Zagorohoria

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 12, 2005October 12, 2005

Living in Ioannina has many privileges. One of them is that the city is actually build in nature. The city is surrounded by forests and it also has a beautiful lake. A lot of magical locations are also within reach. One of these places is Zagorohoria. Zagorohoria is a network of 46 villages in the […]

OpenGL Personal

The plague of PBuffer is lifted

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 6, 2005December 7, 2005

I finally got the time to remove the PBuffer support from Sylphis! Since I simply hate BPuffer, I’ve been planning this for some time now, but I never got the courage to go through it since I don’t have much time lately.

Programming

GCC vs MSVC the Rematch

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 3, 2005October 3, 2005

If you remember from the GCC vs MSVC post, I had a problem with templates and GCC. I looked further in to the problem and I found this on some GCC release notes :

Open Source Programming

ELKS : Baby Linux refusing to grow up

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 1, 2005October 1, 2005

Recently there was a spike in the ELKS mailing list. For those that don’t know what ELKS is, let me tell you that is is basically Linux-86; the port of Linux for the 8086 and 80286 processors. An email with subject “HELP WANTED” caused a thread of responses. The mail came from Miguel Bolanos with […]