It took me a while to get around to making a video. I’ll have a finished build and sources posted eventually, I hope.
Downloadable version
Demo video – mobile (480×360, 12.2MB): [link]
Demo video – large (720×540, 24.5MB): [link]
Download PDF
Heres the notes from the demo on Thursday.
Notes: Open Office Impress | Microsoft Powerpoint | Handout PDF
Also here’s the binaries. I’ve only built them on my laptop and haven’t tested them on other computers.
Note: the shaders still don’t work on ATI graphics cards.
Use at your own risk.
Demo build: Mac x86_64 | Win32 | Linux x86_64
I was watching some “research” during the last break. It looks like there are some new video games featuring sand.
Source Code
I’ve set up the source code using an Assembla git repository, which lets me add unlimited users. If you’re interested in checking out a copy, send me an email with the account that you want to login with and I’ll add you to the project. I added some instructions to the README for how to build it.
Reference Library
There’s a list of all the papers I’ve collected on Zotero Groups, open to anyone to join/view/edit.
Download PDF
Download Open Office Impress | Microsoft Powerpoint | Handout PDF
Links and notes (work in progress).
Inspirational paper
Zhu, Yongning, Animating Sand as a Fluid (Master’s thesis), The University of British Columbia, 2005
Zhu, Y. and Bridson, R. Animating sand as a fluid (article), In ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Papers, 2005.
Re: Design Idea Wk 6: Hardware driven game
A pair of sensor gloves would provide a lot of control about how you could use objects in the game compared to conventional input devices. For example, in real life you can aim and throw things in lots of different ways (overarm, underarm, adding spin etc), but in a game you can generally only grab, drop, push and pull. For example in Portal/Half Life 2 you can only lift a cube or drop it and it is difficult to place it precisely.
To take advantage of this I think it would be neat to make a superhero game. One where your character has super strength and can pick up huge things like cars and trucks using the gloves. Read the rest of this entry »
