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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 […]

Quake III source to be released under the GPL

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

John Carmack noted at his QuakeCon speech that the source code of Quake III will be released next week! Gamespy coverage Even though Quake III is old technology (it is 5 years old) this is big news. A lot of hobby programmers will take it and push it to the limits, which is always fun […]

Programming Sylphis

Multithreaded Game Scripting with Stackless Python

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 10, 2005May 22, 2020

The very basic problem that a creator of a game engine faces when it comes to scripting the game engine is: what will be the language that will be used. Of cource there is the option of creating a custom language for the purpose, but today with the plethora of scripting languages available it doesn’t […]

Personal

River Party

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 8, 2005August 28, 2005

Yesterday I got back from the river party at Nestorio/Kastoria. It is a 4 day party at the banks of the river Aliakmonas. It is a beautiful place, not the best that I have seen but quite nice. The whole event was a big adventure with a lot of rain on Friday and specially on […]

Personal

Everything that has a beginning has an end

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on July 31, 2005October 2, 2005

You probably remember that quote from “The Matrix”. It is a fact that I hate endings and that quote makes sure you don’t forget that whatever begins now, will end some day. I believe that this is one of the most important things you learn growing up. And most of the times you learn it […]

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The beach

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on July 28, 2005August 29, 2018

I extended my last weekend till Tuesday since there was a festival at my village. Every village in Greece has a special celebration day. My village celebrates on S. Friday, which is on 26 of the July. It was fun and relaxing. It is always good to see old friends and enjoy nature at its […]

Master Thesis Open Source

An other contribution to OpenSource

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on July 22, 2005October 14, 2005

Ok… after a lot of hard work, I managed to implement RQ decomposition in SciPy. It was a rather bad experience. I hate Fortran and I had to mess with it. Patch is send to the scipy-dev mailing list and I’m ready to continue my work. But wait… it is Friday!!! I’m off!!!

Master Thesis

RQ Decomposition

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on July 21, 2005October 14, 2005

My master thesis requires a lot of maths and linear algebra. For the purpose I use SciPy. It is a very good library and the fact that it is in python makes it very flexible. The problem is that it is (most of the times) just a wrapper around other older libraries like the famous […]

Debian

Migration from XFree86 to Xorg

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on July 20, 2005October 14, 2005

Migration from xfree86 to Xorg I don’t know why but, I always wanted to get rid of xfree. It must be the traumatic childhood with it. As the biggest bug stumbler that I am, xfree never worked for me the way it was supposed to. Having to mess with all the 3D acceleration stuff, just […]