Charilaos Kalogirou

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Game Engine Network Architecture

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 5, 2005September 5, 2005

Lately I’m thinking a lot of implementing the networking part of Sylphis3D. I must say it can be a brain melting procedure. There are so many things to take into account, that you can easily find yourself in deadend paths.

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Statistics

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 4, 2005September 4, 2005

This blog is alive for something more that a month now. So I thought is was a good time to run some statistics on the webserver logs -yes, I’m a statistics junkie-. I must say I was impressed by the amount of traffic, as we are talking about an infant blog. Anyway let see some […]

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All Tears are Bitter

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 3, 2005September 3, 2005

I must say I’m devastated by the tragedy taking place in the southern east U.S.A. As I don’t watch much TV lately, no images from the destruction had reached me. Yet yesterday I watched the news and the images shocked me.

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Alexa.com

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 28, 2005August 28, 2005

I don’t know if you are familiar with www.alexa.com. I didn’t until yesterday. I don’t recall how I got there, but the site looks like a search engine like Google, until you notice that you can enter URLs of websites and Alexa gives you a ranking of the site. I thought it was something like […]

Master Thesis

Maple

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 26, 2005August 26, 2005

Thank god there is Maple… I was trying to calculate the analytical derivatives of a big function today. My brain almost melted, so I found out we have Maple! It is excelent! It can calculate the analytical derivatives for any function… I had to calculate the Jacobian of derivatives for this function : (a*A + […]

Open Source Sylphis

Blender, beast under 5MB

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 24, 2005August 24, 2005

I’ve been watching closely Blender since it became open source. It was when I was looking for a modeler to be used with Sylphis3D. I must say it is a modeler that catches the eye. You see very impressive renderings, stunning videos and when you try to download the program you realize that we are […]

Personal

Speed limits – Don’t need them…

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 22, 2005August 23, 2005

Ok the driving speed limit problem is solved in Greece. The solution? Gas costing 1 euro per litre! It is almost unbeliavable but everyone is driving at 80-100km/h on national roads. I was returning from vacation and as I was having a headache I thought of going with 80km/h so that I don’t get tired. […]

Open Source Programming

Quake III Engine Source Released

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 20, 2005August 20, 2005

id did it! The source to the famous Quake III engine is out. The ftp site at id software is full of downloaders… get it while its hot!

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The trip to Ithaka

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 17, 2005August 17, 2005

I our lives we learn to set goals. Set up bright beacons ahead of us so that we can follow in the dark sea. I wish it wasn’t so easy to be blinded by that beacons and consider that they are all we have. One must remember that the beacon is only there to make […]

Sylphis

Project Offset

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 14, 2005August 15, 2005

Yesterday, I stumbled on Project Offset. It is about a 3D game engine. The released videos and screenshots are very impressive! No engine released until now can create such visuals as the visuals are comparable only to Unreal 3. The project reminded me of the old days back in 2002 when I released Sylphis to […]