Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Primer

Primer (2004) offers additional insight into time-travel, capitalism and schizophrenia. Mathematician and engineer Shane Carruth wrote, shot, directed, produced, edited, composed sound and starred in the film on a shoe-string budget of $7000. The film received critical acclaim and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Utilizing an extremely technical vocabulary and complex plot structure, the film requires multiple viewings to get a handle on. Stick it on your ipodio using this link.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Virtual Physics

For the past few weeks we have been building physical simulations. They have all been based on the double integrator structure. In the first wave development of Max Colony we elaborate particle simulation in one, two and three dimensions using the scalar, vector and matrix implementations respectively.

We have also been working with real forces measured by accelerometer based game controllers. Here is some homework to keep your mind tight over break. Enjoy.

Podio.