As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been working on my mosaic program again, and in trying to implement a feature that I was really excited about, I’ve discovered it to be lacking in one primary element – speed. I’m going to describe the issue here, in the hopes that I may be able to tease out a new mechanism that might be at least fast enough.
Strategize All The Things
Some time ago, I wrote a program to generate image mosaics from Magic: The Gathering cards. I eventually got it to a point where I could generate reasonably nice mosaics, but there were a number of places in the code where it became impossible for me to do more interesting things with my solvers. So I recently set out to do a complete code cleanup, to make it easier to do some of those things.
Excited About Role Playing Again
While I was listening to Gamerstable this week, they mentioned the Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition kickstarter. This really got me excited about role-playing again, as I remember “the good old days” of the World of Darkness, and having time to get together with friends and play a good, solid, storytelling game.
Pet Rocks
Since I had the day off today, I took the chance to do some painting. Specifically, I wanted to take a stab painting my shifting stones and sentry stone (since it looks fairly similar). Pictures after the jump.
Reaper – Not What I Expected
While Jessa was away in New Zealand, I decided to watch Reaper. When I initially watched the pilot episode, the show came off as “So dumb it’s funny, with SciFi elements”. While that is certainly part of the fun of the show, I found that I kept watching it due to rather clever writing and interesting plot elements. It was clear to me fairly early on, that this show actually had decent writers.
Not sure that I have a whole lot more to say, except that it was fun.
Guild Wars – Skill Combinations
One of the first things that I noticed while playing Guild Wars 2 was the significantly smaller number of possible skill combinations available as a character. To get an idea of the order of mangitude in the differences, I fired up excel and put together some simple equations:
Guild Wars 2 – Now that it’s live
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been playing quite a bit of Guild Wars 2. I’m still pretty early in the game at this point, but I wanted to put together a post about some of the things that I’ve liked, and some of the things that seem a bit off, from the content that I’ve experienced.
Back to Blogging
I’ve taken a hiatus on my blog for the past few weeks, so that I could get moved in to the new house, and get settled in (unpacking some things). To be honest, I haven’t really made the time as much as I could have, but I’m ready to get back into it.
House Update #17
Last Tuesday Jessa and I had the final walkthrough on our house where we got to go through everything and check to make sure it was up to spec. I took pictures but couldn’t travel back in time to post them on Monday, so you get your house pictures today!
House Update #15
So I missed the house update yesterday, but that doesn’t mean that pictures weren’t taken, it just means that I was asleep and didn’t post them. Today, however, is another day, and pictures demand to be posted!