http://www.jevinskie.com Tech oriented commentary and personal projects Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:04:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I finally broke down and bought the student version of MATLAB. Even though I feel that Mathematica is superior to MATLAB, especially when it comes to data visualization and symbolic math, the fact that my linear circuit analysis class requires that you use MATLAB was enough to push me to the dark side. I've made a ... http://www.jevinskie.com/archives/14 I've rested on my laurels for long enough. OK, so I actually didn't do much resting. Computer Engineering pretty much made sure I didn't. I got my best grades yet last semester and that was reflected in the free time that I had to play around with other stuff. One ... http://www.jevinskie.com/archives/13 Ever have those demons inside your computer that you swear are messing with your bits and producing random errors? Me too. During one of these bug chasing marathons, I wrote a FPU dumper that prints out the state of the x87 FPU whenever it is called. The program that ... http://www.jevinskie.com/archives/11 About half an hour after my last post, I realized that I was exporting the triangles as vertex1, vertex2, vertex2 instead of vertex1, vertex2, vertex3. Amazing what a one character typo can do... I feel awesome. Edit: Looks like the I got the texture coordinates right - I was able to ... http://www.jevinskie.com/archives/8 Last night I took a big step in my reversing of the Guitar Hero mesh format. For a while now I have been trying to decode the meshes so that I can import them into StepMania for a Guitar Hero-ized version. I have all the vertices, their normals, their colors ... http://www.jevinskie.com/archives/6 Sufjan Stevens, I like his music but I'm not so peachy about the titles that he picks for his songs. Come on, is "The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but ... http://www.jevinskie.com/archives/4 Ágætis byrjun is Icelandic for "an alright start". It is also an album by Sigur Rós, an Icelandic band and one of my favorite bands. I'd call this posting an alright start, if I say so myself. This blog will be place for my random ramblings, usually about ideas and ... http://www.jevinskie.com/archives/1