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| Inspire08 demo log, day 117 07.08.2008 |
Status:While people that haven't released anything in years were trying to find the meaning of life and also were creating a rather depressing image for the newcomers to the site partly ruining our promotion job two weeks ago at Euskal, I was fighting once again with Java... er... and having a misery time playing at Mario Kart too (just for 1 hour tho). I keep having problems with the audio player :(... glitching just at the beginning of the music and creating random delays. It doesn't happen all the time tho. I'll leave the glitch there for now, and concentrate on adding synchronize more stuff here and there (production). Which is what I'm doing, just after cleaning all the code. There were still some Timer.getTime() around... Things are looking good, I just need to find a effect for the texts. But seems like finally I'm starting to get used to Java and I'm starting to optimise things. People may say that Java sucks and all that, well, based on my experience so far, it's great, it just needs more people working with it and sharing sources. |
| posted by trace at 03:53 |
| Inspire08 demo log, day 116 06.08.2008 |
Status:You may already know that the demo was released already two weeks ago at Euskal. Yes, this is how usually goes, you work for a demo for X party, you don't finish it in time and release it on Y party. In the end it was actually a invitation for D///FEST 2008 as originally intended. Since the last post I didn't do much work on it to be honest, I did most of the part on the hotel while at Bilbao. I still wasn't able to forward/backward the tune so I still had the same problem of having to sync the something in the end of the demo and had to watch the whole demo. Some day... some day... But, tired of having to get the sync times by hand I added a Timer.getBeat() method. On init I sent the length of the beat (which is my tune is about 856ms) and then Timer.getBeat() will just give me back System.currentTimeMilliS() / beat_length. Once I found out the exact length of the beat the rest of the synchronization was much faster to produce. Instead of if (Timer.getTime() > 109568), now I had if (Timer.getBeat() > 128). Much easier to read for sure. Then added the texts on top of everything, because, after all I had to talk about the event. Unfortunately I had to make the texts by myself too and that took some brain time. Which is something you don't have few hours before the deadline. Last but not least, managed to do the greetings part/code in about 30min. All thanks to the Timer.getBeat() idea o/. But this is not the end of the story. After releasing it some people were having problems playing it. I was finishing the demo at the party with WindowsXP at the party because Ubuntu doesn't work well in the macbook pro yet, and I added the fullscreen code in the very last minute, and seemed like on Ubuntu that wasn't working very well. So, some days after the release I updated the .zip which a new version that has a nice Resolution selector window before the demo, powered by java.awt. No, there is still more. There were other people complaining about audio playback issues on Athlon64. Now, I don't know if this is related to the OGG player I was using or Java itself? Anyway I've switched to a MP3 player because it seems to have more options, easier getPosition and easier to implement the seek feature (backward/forward). I don't know if this will fix the Athlon64 thing in the end tho. Related to this, I've also implemented a nice beat visualizer which lets me easily control if the visuals are losing synchronization. After some hours on it, seems like the problem was that I was initializing everything way too fast. I was starting the tune even before the video mode had change, that made the music stop for a couple of milliseconds, and everything got unsynced from there. So, that should be fixed now, everything seems to be working fine now, I should synchronize some more things on the visuals and I should be able to call it final version :D Which is funny, I think I've never done a final version before, usually you don't want to do it after the party, but somehow, in this case I'm really enjoying it :? Anyway, that's all for now. Final version in a few days, and that will be the end of these series, oh, and yeah, I'll release all the sources so anyone can laugh, learn or fix the mess. Oh yes, you have the current version (v1.1) here: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=51075 |
| posted by trace at 07:38 |
| Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Account Services. Part 2 01.08.2008 |
| Dear Ricky, Have you read what I wrote on the "Additional Information" field? I don't know the birthday I submitted. Why can't Yahoo be like any other services and just send a new password or link to the associated email? If that's not possible I no longer have any reason to bother about Yahoo services anymore. Answer. Hello Ricardo, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Account Services. We have reviewed the verification information that you have provided. However, we were unable to match the zip code that you provided with the information that was entered during registration or when this account was last updated. To protect the security and privacy of all accounts, we are unable to provide login or other account assistance without completely verifying the account. Please resubmit your request, and remember to match the information as it was entered when you originally established your account, or when you most recently updated your information. We look forward to assisting you with this account once the appropriate verification information has been received. Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Account Services. Regards, Keith Yahoo! Account Services Customer Care What have I learn from this? Try to avoid robot answers in your web-services, otherwise you may sound like a COMPLETELY RETARD. Specially when the robot need to answer user questions. I don't mind having to wait 1 week for a personal answer, better than being answered in 4 hours with stuff like this. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 07:46 |
| Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Account Services. 01.08.2008 |
| What happens if you're one of those people that don't like to submit the right birth date to internet services and you forgot your password? In 99% of the internet services out there that won't be a problem as long as you have access to the associated email address. But the clever guys at Yahoo! needed to be the 1%. On the appropriated form I wrote this to them: I can't use the "Forgot your Password" feature on the site because I don't remember birthdate/country/postcode. It's very possible that I didn't submitted the real ones. Would it be possible to just get sent the password or a new password to whichever email address is associated with the ****** account. I'm sure I got access to whichever email account it's. And this is their answer: Hello Ricardo, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Account Services. I understand that you would like to reset the password of your Yahoo! account. I'll certainly help you with that. We have reviewed the verification information that you have provided. However, we were unable to match the date of birth that you provided with the information that was entered during registration or when this account was last updated. To protect the security and privacy of all accounts, we are unable to provide login or other account assistance without completely verifying the account. Please resubmit your request, and remember to match the information as it was entered when you originally established your account, or when you most recently updated your information. We look forward to assisting you with this account once the appropriate verification information has been received. Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Account Services. Regards, Ricky Yahoo! Account Services Customer Care Which makes me wonder if Ricky is a robot or they just don't know how to read yet. Otherwise, if internet stuff was unnecessary complex already (captchas and co.), they even needed to make it more complex, oh no.. I mean, more secure xD. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 02:53 |
| Definition of FAIL 31.07.2008 |
 If you don't get it... smile, you're not an addict :D |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 05:54 |
| Ronny Pries live @ Alpha Box Jan'08 23.07.2008 |
| Part 1, Part 2 Pt.1 01 Jichael Mackson - The Grass Is Always Greener 02 Skoozbot - A Fistful Of Duckets 03 XDB - Descap Live 04 Tadeo - Reflection Nebula 056n 05 Dimi Angélis & Jeroen - Lunar 06 Mark Broom - Taken 07 rktic - Orbicle 08 Ben Klock - Similarity 09 Minilogue - Star Command 10 Echospace - Obmx (cv313 Reduction) 11 CV313 - Galaxy313 12 Wishmountain - Radio 13 Andy Stott - Hostile 14 Johannes Heil - 20.000 Leagues Under The Skin Pt. 12 15 Duoteque - Logo 16 Slam - Azure (Radio Slave Remix) 17 Kevin Saunderson - Bassline (Joris Voorn Mix #07) 18 Billy Dalessandro - Blackjack 19 Ronny Pries - Surpries 20 Stereo Jack - Different Aproach 21 Jackmate - Jackmoves 22 Näköradiomies - Viritys 23 Stefan Tretau - Leere Welten 24 Christian Smith and John Selway - Silver Bullet 25 Marco Carola - Dancing Days Pt.2 25 Marco Carola - Dancing Days 26 Savas & Remute - Lies (Luke Slater RMX) 27 Stereo Jack - Shortly Before 28 cv313 - Saraya 29 Tony Rohr & Dietrich Schoenemann - Repeat 30 Brian Aneurysm - The End Of Logic (Kai Randy Michel Remix) 31 Hiroshi Oki - Amaterasu 32 Hertz - Destined 33 Plan Tec - Espias Psiquicios (Jonas Kopp Remix) 34 Nicole - A Small Entrance to a large Spectrum 35 Tapwatr - Dirty Things 36 October Rust - Breitseite 37 Tony Rohr - Kaiserpower 38 Sutekh - Unstern 39 Cirez D - Tigerstyle 40 Losoul - Brain Of Glass (Alter Ego Remix) 41 Cari Lekebush - Freak the funk 42 Einmusik - Jittery Heritage 43 Swayzak - By the rub of Love 44 Alic - Icedive 45 Rok - Cycle sluts 46 Adam Beyer - Swedish Silver (Joey Beltram Remix) 47 Quenum - Secret Soul (Tractile Remix) 48 Jussi Pekka - Federal Escape 49 Nick Zero - Venus 50 Minilogue - Inca source |
| posted by r08028 at 04:09 |
| WALL·E 23.07.2008 |
| So, I was really looking forward to watch this movie, saw very good reviews in all the media. So we went yesterday evening and well, I personally was a bit disappointed. Having to watch all the silly bbc advertising for kids before the movie had to be a punishment for something I must have done wrong, not sure what, but it sure felt like. Which, it's not like we went at the 11am session, that was 8pm already. But you know, that was a movie for kids, so ADs for kids, that's how advanced the technology is on that field :) After all the rubbish we finally saw the traditional before-the-movie short, this time Presto, which was nice, but too childish I think. I guess i was pretty influenced by being around a lot of kids laughing about things that weren't that funny, and the worst thing is that there were some adult laughing harder at those things. And then, the movie, which I think had a very fast rhythm, and the actions were happening in a weird way. If you have seen Idiocracy, you're going to see basically the same story again, but I think Idiocracy was funnier and better story. Having Apple "jokes" was kind of annoying too. Well, 8.8/10 say in imdb. I don't think I'll watch the movie again so, 5/10 for me. I hope The Dark Night is really as good as they say, otherwise I'll stop listening ;D Oh, before I forget, on the credits they have a pixelated animation which also felt very cheap, not cute at all, I guess I've been playing too much to Cave Story ;) |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 02:55 |
| Where do we get the time from? 22.07.2008 |
Found an interesting video ob Bit-101 blog. As I also get that question many times. Well... as Keith said, here's the answer :) |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 08:19 |
| And now... can flash render a 320k+ voxels head? 21.07.2008 |
Again, it can, and damn fast. Well, if it runs fast is all thanks to Román Cortés. which has done a magnificent job optimising the experiment. If you want to know a little bit more about the details check Román's post. Seems like using voxels is the best way to have highly detail 3D meshes rendered with Flash these days, although it also has it's limitations... Ah!! Sources are available this time. (This time it's quite hard to understand tho ;P). |
| posted by mr.doob at 15:32 |
| Pixel Attack 08 - 3D Slides 21.07.2008 |
 So, as posted, I was invited to do a speech at this year's pixel attack. As the topic of my speech was mainly 3D works (with some exceptions) I've been working on during this year I though would be a good idea to do the slides in 3D and get some anaglyphic glasses for the audience. I found a shop with very good prices and in a week that problem was sorted. This year's presentation system was a was a bit more complex than the one used at LFPUG :) HOW TO USE: Keyboard left-right: Prev / Next slide Mouse left-right: Move camera left-right. Mouse up-down: Move camera up-down. Mouse wheel: Move camera forward-backwards.  So, the thing seemed to work pretty well, and the organisers did a great job making sure everyone could enjoy the effect moving tv signals around and giving glasses to everyone.  Some more (clickable) screengrabs :D   Unfortunately I ran out of time (better to run out of time than out of content tho) and I wasn't able to show the last slide. So here are some links to some of the experiments I wasn't able to show: First a performance test of a 3D engine I was working on. In this test there are about 1000 balls with the depth of field effect. When I did the effect with Papervision3D long time ago I was able to put 200, although I'm sure it can be pretty much optimised too.  And then, something I wanted to try for a while. Andre Stubbe used to have a background on his site which looked similar to this. I though it was a render, but apparently was also real time (with Java). However, he sent me the sprite so I could try to achieve the same effect with flash.  And that's about it, many thanks to the organisers once again for doing a great job and keeping everyone happy, and hope they keep the vibe one more year! Which by the way, extra kudos for them as they probed that you don't need £500 tickets for doing these kind of events (the entrance was free).  On the pic (in a random order :D): Maria, Dave, Javier, Sole, Yingshun and myself |
| posted by mr.doob at 06:16 |
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