Wish granted!Originally Posted by Epy
Please discuss any projects you want to share with the friendly people at Cboard. I wish I were doing something right now, but I'm not, but I should.
Wish granted!
Please discuss any projects you want to share with the friendly people at Cboard. I wish I were doing something right now, but I'm not, but I should.
Guess I'll start then. As I mentioned in the thread where I said the above quote, I'm working on a program to help automate the 3D modelling of piping systems. I started to go into detail on the Tech Board here: Thoughts on automated 3D modelling of piping systems
One of the many things I do at my job is 2D/3D CAD drawings, and every time I have to make proposal drawings it takes 1-2 days of solid, uninterrupted work; it's a monumental pain. The 3D model needed to produce the end drawings is based on a set of standards governed by our company and also ASME/ANSI standards. So, I can take advantage of that and automate the making of each piece given basic information (e.g. to make a tee, I only need to know the pipe size and schedule).
After months of off and on thinking, I finally whipped something out. What I have now allows me to write small/quick script files that produce a model that's 95% complete.
Here's an example segment from my script:
which corresponds to the bottom horizontal pipe run in the produced model below:Code:6 6,1,3,YP tee,r,YP rfwn chv,w rfwn 2 rfwn fp,36.6875 rfwn * rfwn bv rfwn tee,r,YP
The above model would take me only a few hours since I already have a library of many of those components (valves, tees, elbows), but in comparison it'd take 5-10 minutes to write the script instead. Huge time savings.
Last edited by Epy; 12-13-2014 at 04:54 PM.
I'm going to either do some meshing in CUDA or I'm going to learn sockets with Java.
I've been working on a "profile creator/selector" for this maze game that I've been adding on to for a while now. After that I need to make transparency bitmasks for the player characters bitmaps, so that I can add some of the backgrounds I've made in (below I'm playing/lost as Bob the Tomato from Veggie-Tales, it's a version to give to my niece).
The main mechanic of the game is that you choose a difficulty (after you create a profile), and you have a certain number of off-steps you can make before you die, based on that difficulty. Each level you solve starts a new maze (generated by algorithm). The challenge is how many levels you complete before you die.
On the version below, my Brother in Law wants me to add a winning condition, and use that to unlock the other characters (and harder difficulties). I was thinking that the 3rd or 4rth level would add a timer, and if you beat that it shows a "you've won" screen with the character you've unlocked, which is why I need a profile to save to.
Last edited by Alpo; 12-13-2014 at 06:12 PM.
WndProc = (2[b] || !(2[b])) ? SufferNobly : TakeArms;
I use spreadsheets to track financial information and bill payment details. The data I log is thorough, which leads to some redundancy between spreadsheets, and some information has to be manually entered in several places.
So I'm writing a program with GTK to enter and keep track of this information much more easily. If all goes well, I plan on adding additional features, such as data plotting.
I spent the past two weeks planning this program, and started coding today. I have a feeling this one might take a while.
I don't know Veggie-Tales, but it kind of reminds me of Meatwad
Oh wow, I never noticed it before, but you are right. Bob is like a less cool version of Meatwad. Because Meatwad makes the money see, and Meatwad get's the honey's G :P.I don't know Veggie-Tales, but it kind of reminds me of Meatwad
WndProc = (2[b] || !(2[b])) ? SufferNobly : TakeArms;
Well, I've been working on some projects for some time, though I'm not working on them today. Not right now.
Anyway...
One project is to take recorded gameplay, slice & dice it, append intro & outro, effects, upload to youtube and add description, add it to a youtube playlist and make them public/private with a single click of a button. You have no idea how much time this has saved. The manual process was just ridiculous. Find proper times, slice, append, write scripts, encode, mux audio, upload, add description and tags, add to playlist, and so on. Not to mention the mistakes that are done in the process!
Then there's my utility to grab all new streaming titles @ crunchyroll.com and add them to my google calendar for reminders when they stream.
As a consequence of those two, I've had to implement oauth authentication, networking and talking to google. Add the ability to cancel these operations at any time and you've got a pretty complex design which I'm constantly trying to make better, get rid of complexity and simplify into a useful bunch of utility classes. Among them, especially a class that abstracts an asynchronous result has made me lose many nights of sleep because it's just so difficult to implement and the choices of doing things and which ones are good and not and whatnot and making a decision what to support and what not... I still haven't been able to figure that out, so I just took exactly what I needed and made as simple implementation I could as possible.
Finally I've been tinkering with a distributed system for sending notifications and messages to other people over the internet for those people who hide from skype. Mostly just for the networking experience.
Oh and yesterday, I wrote a statistics class to help out making benchmarks. Sampling, calculate mean, median, standard deviation, confidence intervals, etc.
I've been programming in LaTeX today. Implementing some enhanced functionality for a friend that standard class files do not offer.
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I love pixel art. I haven't found a single editor for "Android" that even half of the features I want, and I surely don't want to switch between five or six different applications to edit one spite.
I am working on a sprite editor for "Android".
Soma
“Salem Was Wrong!” -- Pedant Necromancer
“Four isn't random!” -- Gibbering Mouther
I tend to give up on a project if I work solely on it. So I'm involved in a few personal projects. Some of which have a few years on them. I'm not listing those currently on hold.
1. Map Editor for strategy games development (C# and C++) (image: http://i.imgur.com/JgpgH.jpg)
A visual map editor capable of exporting to a SQLite database or my own binary format (with accompanying C++ DLL for read/write access to the file) for anyone wishing to develop hex-based or square-based strategy games. It's a lot more advanced than in that screenshot, but that's what I have on imgur. I didn't actually work on it today. But this week I made a few fixes to the random map generator. Coastlines were too jagged and disconnected.
2. A math teaching tool for kids up to the 9th grade (C#, Lua) (No image. See below)
A classroom aiding tool teachers can use that explores some methods for math teaching up to and including basic algebra. Making it small enough to fit a raspberry pi and use it here in Angola as a cheap teaching aid that teachers or schools can use without getting on a computer-class budget. I'm currently working on the application engine and as such there's nothing to show as an image.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
Adding EMV support to our products. (US products of course.)
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This is shaping up to be a great thread. Seeing what others are doing gets my brain going and thinking about stuff I can program, as it's just a hobby for me.
Next step for my 3D piping program is to spit out a bill of material with total lengths of pipe, valves, fittings, etc. to assist fabricators in the estimating process. I also want to add in the weld gaps and pipe gaskets into the 3d model, maybe even the nuts and bolts for the flanges. Also working on the branch piping (small stuff that comes off the main piping, like drain valves).
So much practicality in this thread. It's almost a little scary.
Great discussion, I would like to share that currently i am developing an android application which will work as like what's app.
