Girl Shooting

10 min graffiti

Claytronics Mentioned on Engadget

This Claytronics demo was a Carnegie Mellon / Entertainment Technology Center project that I was a member of. We produced a video to explore what could be done with this technology.

From Engadget.com:

Research is still in the early stages, but the concept renders are straight out of science fiction. Some friendly folks at Carnegie Mellon University are working towards electromagnetic microscopic bots that cling together and can assume virtually any shape...

more...

Masami Nagasawa : actress

Japanese actress Masami Nagasawa

Claytronics Car Design

Claytronics demo made for Intel Lab:

Graffiti on Facebook

I always want to draw something in spare time. And now I found that Facebook is the perfect place. Its Graffiti application enable me to draw on any computer. Even the functionality is very primitive, but that's all I need to do some simple sketching.

Re-open

Updated to new blogger system...

Fast square root tricks:

2D:
If dy > dx, approximated distance is
0.41 dx + 0.941246 dy
(If dy < dx, swap these values.) The difference from the exact distance is between -6% and +3%; more than 85% of all possible differences are between −3% to +3%.

3D:
in decreasing length dx, dy, dz
0.9398 dx + 0.3893 dy + 0.2987 dz
This has a max error of 6.0%, quite accurate, and can
be computed quickly with only shifts and adds (no
multiplies).

Portable Applications

aka green softwares...
here is a web site collect and host some green applications
most of them are well maintained:

PortableApps.com

enjoy it...

Ragdoll physics

Here are some resources about ragdoll physics:
I'll keep updating this list when I find anything new.

Paper:
Thomas Jakobsen
Advanced Character Physics

Forum:
Angular constraints

Maya plugin:
Nima

Some simple water simulation

http://homepage1.nifty.com/kaneko/water3.htm
http://www.codecolony.de/opengl.htm
Here are some water simulation demos and source code.
Should be easy to implement.