I've trying to work on an algorithmic solver for dodecahellspawn, instead of the current roll-back-the-moves method, and boy has it been a mess. I think my group theory lessons were much too long ago for this.

Unlike the Honeycomb puzzle, the moves on the dodecahellspawn forms a non-abelian group, w…

I finished writing a simple SDL program to test the theory and implementation on my math for Honeycomb, and it all checks out - at least for maps as high as level 85, the max level in Honeycomb. Of course doing it by hand is a pain, and having a computer automate it is no fun, so I'm closing the bo…

The matrix is invertible.

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(For a left multiply by a column vector where the upper left honey cell corresponds to the 0 element, upper right cell is the 15th and the lower right is 255.)

edit:Well, I had posted the inverse here, but the code tag breaks the forums cell and the source tag tries …

I've been playing a lot of Honeycomb, one of TANSTAAFL's flash games. Of course, at the higher levels, pretty much anything past 40, it's incredibly hard, especially with the move limitation that got added in the last version.

It occurred to me that there's got to be an easier way to solve a given…

Ignore this.

If no one hears from me in the near future it's because I died of tryptophan poisoining. But what a way to go.

Yay, turkey day!

I've complained about this before, but if you're ever tempted to write a C or C++ library, avoid including cassert or assert.h in the library headers. It's just rude.

I was trying out Alias Sketchbook Pro again. The first time I tried it was just when I was inspecting all the software that came with the Tablet PC, but now that I've sat down and really played with it, it seems like a really nice package. I'm not sure how much of this is just being able to use the…

Well, I didn't get much BREW work done today. Just the basic installation, compiled and ran a App Wizard applcation. Most of the rest of my time I devoted to trying to get my hardware to work properly.

I picked up a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo: the Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite for Bluetooth pa…

Well today I spent too much time not getting Painter 8 to work with my Tablet PC. I know the tablet has pressure sensitive input on the stylus since the trial version of Alias Sketchbook worked fine.

Painter 9 recently came out, so maybe I'll grab that and see if it will support my tablet better. Ju…