OT: Some links based on stuff I mentioned at tonights meeting
Reece Arnott <[email protected]>
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Skate 3 glitches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfl33Tn0pYc The first of 3 compilation youtube videos (the others linked from this one) showing an impressive amount of weird things happening in a game when you fall in the cracks between the triangles making up the surface meshes of the objects in the game (possibly due to floating point rounding errors in the points of the triangles - bad game engine design - or maybe just due to bad scene design). Non-fiction H.G. Wells - Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought (I got both the author and title wrong tonight, sorry): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19229 George Chetwynd Griffith 19th century author: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8557 Considered to be the 'forgotten father of science fiction' by many (he also circumnavigated the world in 65 days). From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Griffith: "Although overshadowed by H. G. Wells in the United States, Griffith's epic fantasies of romantic communists in a future world of war, dominated by airship battle fleets, and grandiose engineering provided a template for steampunk novels a century before the term was coined." Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury (a book I'll be lending to Monica) review: http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/psychris.html - I was wrong, its *unauthorised* building on the Foundation series. -- Reece Arnott Dunedin New Zealand _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/