Category: Geeky Technical Stuff

Any time I go off on a rant about geeky, technical subjects I’ll try and warn you by labelling it appropriately.

Gyration GYM1100NA – The Best thing ever to happen to FPS Gaming, Seriously

What is it? Well it’s an “air mouse” or “space mouse” or one of the many other monikers this new class of devices goes by. What it boils down to is that this mouse uses accelerometers instead of a mouse ball, CCDs or lasers. I bet you can think of another device that works this… Continue reading Gyration GYM1100NA – The Best thing ever to happen to FPS Gaming, Seriously

Anime North 2008

Anime North was even bigger this year than last if you can believe it. There were people from all over there and because I wore a Trent U t-shirt I met a few fellow Trent students there as well. I was also able to run into a few of the artists I’d seen on deviantArt… Continue reading Anime North 2008

Lucasfilm releases details of new advanced CGI techniques

Well in those days computers were apparently 1-4Mhz on the server end of things. Doing wireframe perspective matrix transformations quick enough to rotate things in real time was a big deal. I mean… I wasn’t born yet – but the literature clearly indicates there were parties in the streets. LOL Is this kind-of like a… Continue reading Lucasfilm releases details of new advanced CGI techniques