Notes for Mat10
I’ve placed my notes for the forthcoming exam in Mat10 (linear algebra) on the web. You’ll find them here. (The notes are in Danish)
Archive for January 2002
Happy New Year to everyone!
We had a good New Years Eve yesterday — the weather was a bit foggy at first, but it cleared up just around midnight, so that we could see all the beautiful fireworks. We have a really nice view of the city from the first floor — it was spectacular!
The Party was really cool!
thoooms gave me a crash-course in
OpenGL programming — I have now made a program
that builds and illuminates a nice cube with rounded corners — take a
look at the picture at the right. The idea is that this cube should one of
27 cubes that would make a Rubik’s Cube. I think
it would be really cool to have a real three-dimensional Rubik’s
Cube — one that you can rotate and solve using
your mouse…
When I told thoooms about my plans, he looked a little uneasy. He showed me a huge book, that he had got this Christmas, and turned to a chapter about something called picking. It turned out, that it was far from simple to figure out which object the user actually points at in the 3D world — the book had a whole chapter devoted to that subject alone! So it’ll probably take a while before my program will be able to do that :-)
But that doesn’t matter, as it’s really fun to play with OpenGL. I’ve also gained a better understanding of all the hard work that lies in the fancy games we see today — there’s a really long way from my simple cube to that! :-)