Re: OT: Some links based on stuff I mentioned at tonights meeting

Thanks Reece :)


On 27 February 2013 22:00, Reece Arnott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Skate 3 glitches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=vfl33Tn0pYc<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<http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19229>
>
> George Chetwynd Griffith 19th century author: http://www.gutenberg.org/**
> ebooks/author/8557 <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<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<http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/psychris.html>- I was wrong, its *unauthorised* building on the Foundation series.
>
>
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> Reece Arnott
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
>
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