Today...

[RpgGamer]

That's a hell of a goal! What are you planning on being a doctor of?

[Bonez899]

Emergency Doctor is what I'm thinking for now at least, little bit more variety in what you see/do and need the broad base of knowledge vs being a specialist.

[RpgGamer]

Talking like emergency surgeon or more like first response ER?

[Bonez899]

Like an ER doctor, so handling all the emergencies and walk-ins before handing off to a more specialized doctor like the surgeon or whatever.

[RpgGamer]

That's really cool man, I wish you luck

[Randox]

Had a cool nature encounter while walking the dog. Heard some rustling in the bushes ahead, and then caught a pair of eyes with my light. At first I thought I was looking at someones unreasonably large dog running down the road towards me, so that's fun. Suddenly, it gets a whole lot taller and I realised it was a doe (I think; could have been a young deer) that had been standing in the ditch.

 

It ran down the road towards me a short ways before cutting across the road and scrambling through the ditch and into the trees away from me. Not sure if it was me who startled it, or if a coyote wandered into the area. Anyway, I've never had an encounter like that, and likely never will again.

[Estonian dude]

Damn, if that's a once in a lifetime experience, then I feel bad for you. About a monthly occurrence here. Saw 3 separate herds of elk just last week when driving to Stockholm. Does and foxes are so numerous that counting encounters would be pointless...

 

We also have freerunning lemmings and wolverines and everything.

[MuffinMaddy]

I guess the anticipation is finally getting to me ... in just about 5 days, I will be receiving my final undergraduate degree classification.

I'm pretty sure I've achieved one of the highest grades, and I felt comfortable with all of my exams but sometimes it gets a bit eerie being too calm.

All of my friends from other universities have their results, and results days are different depending on department at my university so I've seen some of my friends get their results and I'm super proud of them. I've bought my dress for graduation, my tickets and gown too so I'm pretty excited - just got to find out what grade I have finally.

 

I'm feeling the pressure as it's 4 years of hard work and even though I'm pretty much almost definitely going to do my masters (Their grade requirement was lower than any grades I've gotten before) - it would be really nice to have a comfortably nice undergraduate degree that I can just look back on and smile thinking of all the challenges I went through to get it

[RpgGamer]

And it's all come full circle (to RSC)

[Veiva]

Looks awesome, Ring_World! Making a software renderer is a bunch of fun.

 

Translation is easy. You simply use a four-dimensional vector (x, y, z, 1.0) for a vertex position and multiple it by the 4x4 transformation matrix with the last row/column (depending on row column-major or row-major matrices) being the translation vector.

 

Projection transformations require dividing the xyz components by w after the transformation.

[Hedgehog]

I think people use quaternions instead of matrices these days right? That's all I really know about 3D stuff. Sounds like a really fun and challenging project so keep up the good work. You've already gotten further than I probably could have

[Boris5000]

I guess the anticipation is finally getting to me ... in just about 5 days, I will be receiving my final undergraduate degree classification.

I'm pretty sure I've achieved one of the highest grades, and I felt comfortable with all of my exams but sometimes it gets a bit eerie being too calm.

All of my friends from other universities have their results, and results days are different depending on department at my university so I've seen some of my friends get their results and I'm super proud of them. I've bought my dress for graduation, my tickets and gown too so I'm pretty excited - just got to find out what grade I have finally.

 

I'm feeling the pressure as it's 4 years of hard work and even though I'm pretty much almost definitely going to do my masters (Their grade requirement was lower than any grades I've gotten before) - it would be really nice to have a comfortably nice undergraduate degree that I can just look back on and smile thinking of all the challenges I went through to get it

Congrats Maddy (whatever the classification). Gl with your masters! 

[Veiva]

I think people use quaternions instead of matrices these days right? That's all I really know about 3D stuff. Sounds like a really fun and challenging project so keep up the good work. You've already gotten further than I probably could have

Quaternions are used to represent rotations. They are generally converted into matrices before being used for rendering. For example, a Transform object may be composed of a scale vector, translation vector, and rotation quaternion, which are all combined into a matrix when concatenating transforms or transforming vertices.

 

Usually, you have the world matrix, which represents the objects transformation from model-space to world-space; the view matrix, which represents the transformation into camera-space from world-space; and the projection matrix, which transforms a point into normalized device coordinates (e.g., 0 to 1) after dividing by w.

[Randox]

Damn, if that's a once in a lifetime experience, then I feel bad for you. About a monthly occurrence here. Saw 3 separate herds of elk just last week when driving to Stockholm. Does and foxes are so numerous that counting encounters would be pointless...

 

We also have freerunning lemmings and wolverines and everything.

No no, I've seen Deer before, and I'm sure I'll see them again (they're getting more and more common). I've just never had one run at me before.

 

It was a good three days actually. The day before I spotted a trio of bunnies that seemed to be playing tag in the street. When the game was up one of them came up the driveway and apparently didn't see me until he was like 6 ft away. Think he heard me move my foot while turing to watch him go by, and boy did he jump (dashed a metre, then decided it would be better to stay still). A day or two after the deer I was running alongside some bushes and almost ran over either ducklings or pheasantlings. The all started chirping in alarm and some of them nearly wandered into my path. Luckily, whichever type of bird they were momma must not have been nearby. I don't particularly relish the thought of an angry duck in my face, let alone a pheasant.

 

The only wildlife my dog cares about though are the squirrels. I caught one several mornings in a row eating on his kennel fence. I think it finally got the point, but several mornings in a row it would be there, the dog would spot it, then run over to it and start barking, then the squirrel would sequel and flee into the trees and spend 2 minutes chattering angrily at us. It's been a great summer for wildlife spotting. That said, I'm glad we didn't have pheasants when I was growing up. I think back to all hours spent crashing through the woods as a child, and if you did that here and now you'd probably have a heart attack at some point (where I grew up, there was a lot between me and my friend that while still forested, had been cleared of undergrowth, so it was easy to move around in. Doing that also meant no pheasants, since they would have had precious few places for cover.

[Tesset]

On the minecraft server I play on, I tore up an old unfinished public project that no one had worked on for 2 months, only to find out today that someone else had been working on it in some minor way. When they asked about it on the discord, someone else (not me) was like "It's Tyler redoing it, and I think everyone was getting fed up with how shitty it looked."

I think I'm about to be at the center of some nice, juicy minecraft drama.  -_-

[RpgGamer]

I drank nearly 2 bottles of vodka last night and now I feel like death would be cool. Had a good time though from what I remember

[Randox]

Went to see the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo yesterday. I've not been to it in several years, but it's still a fantastic show. I looked it up afterwards, and I think it's the only (consistent) Tattoo in in Canada, and apparently is rather unique for the inclusion of of civilians and a focus on theatrics. Aside from the dancing, gymnastics, and motorcycles, you also get stuff like this (from 2010. The Land Force Atlantic Area Band, RCMP Ceremonial Troop, and Ceremonial Guard Band).

 

The fog cleared just enough during the show to see the Mighty Ike carrier afterwards as well. They've got her moored out near the mouth of the harbour. None of our military piers are made for a ship quite that large  :?

 

'Twas a good Canada Day!

[Bonez899]

Wish I could have made it to the Tattoo this year, sadly not. I did make it to Ottawa instead though, so that was kind of awesome.

 

I then proceeded to go out and spend way to much money, but it was a good night overall

[RpgGamer]

I mean we're all friends here, why did a download link need to be censored out?

[Melos]

Today I started watching Seraph of the End. The first episode was amazing, so I'm going to keep watching lol.

[RpgGamer]

Anyone else playing Fire Emblem Heroes?

[Randox]

I mean we're all friends here, why did a download link need to be censored out?

To be clear, my objection is specifically to direct download links. Please describe what is being downloaded, and link to the download/landing page, not directly to the file.

 

 

Started building a boat house for my Aunt today. Joint effort between a few members of the extended family, and a fair bit of fun too.

[MuffinMaddy]

It's results day and I'm pretty sure I'm about to shit myself

 

I've had overwhelmingly good reports from my friends who have their results that it's scaring me

[RpgGamer]

Government shut down meant I had no work today so played PUBG with my brother for something like 5 hours. Won twice. Felt nice to be able to just play games again for a bit.

[Veiva]

Doot doot.

 

 

Pretty cool!

 

 

Spooky...