What’s New
No new work on LxEngine in the last couple weeks, unfortunately. Aggravating not being able to finish off that last chunk of work on normal mapping!
I’ve been busy consulting on a web project. I do have to say that taking up a totally different kind of programming (say, small website programming versus the lower-level desktop graphics) really does work well to break the tendency towards tunnel-vision in solving problems. For example, I still think JQuery is a fantastic example of an API that violates many of the “rules” about a good API that I previously held; yet, the API is great in many regards, so that’s a clear sign that those rules – like all rules – have exceptions. A change in perspective is almost always helpful.
Also, have been reading Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications: A Programmer’s Guide at Christophe Riccio’s recommendation. So far it’s been an excellent book reminding me of the pure math behind all those math classes I use. I have to say the Google e-book version could have used a little more editing though…definitely numerous typographical errors in there that could / should be fixed.