Still tinkering away at the noise library, squashing a last few bugs and cleaning stuff up. The idea to allow a fractal to have any basis function for any layer was a good one, but it did add some complexity. It makes it harder to just get a quick fractal up and going. So I added functionality to b…

I've been revamping the noise library (again). Initially, it was modelled after libnoise, as a chained module system. It is still a chained module system, but I have redone things a bit differently. Before, the fractal-type modules (fBm, billow, ridged, etc...) were hard-set to be of a specified ba…

Just got back from the honeymoon and assorted business. Good times were had by all. Got home yesterday and we settled down to the business of starting the new life together. This is the first time in over two weeks I've even been able to turn the computer on.

And, of course, my computer died. My des…

Finally got off my lazy butt and implemented a hackish sort of terrain erosion in Accidental. Been playing with various somewhat-realistic hydrology-based models, but most either netted poor performance or poor results (due to ambiguous specifications in the tech papers, and/or my poor efforts at i…

Over the weekend I spent some time surfing through Googles of the usual set of topics, wrapping my head around the whole world of random generation again, and I stumbled upon Wireworld. I remember playing with Conway's Game of Life in college, and since then I've dabbled a tiny bit in cellular auto…

So, I'm getting married in a couple weeks.

Oh, wait, forgot to say hi. Hi. Been a long time, I know.

Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah. Marriage...

Kind of excited for it, actually. 33 years seems to me about the right length of time to be single, and since I turned 33 just a few days ago... well, here I …

Since recaps of 2007 seem to be in vogue, I figure I should jump on the bandwagon. This'll be short.

In 2007, I did...








Not a danged thing worth mentioning. Seriously, it was a pretty wasted year. Woot! for laziness. Thank you, and here's to hoping 2008 is just as good. Cheers.

My hat is quite appropriate for the season now. Pblttt! to all those who told me I need to take it off. Pblttt, I say.

No, really, it does....

Also, there is some weirdness afoot on gamedev.net. For awhile now, occasionally when I am trying to load the site on my lappy, I get the message in the status bar about waiting for e.nvero.net, and Firefox hard-hangs and I have to kill and restart. It's happened about 8 time…