Four comments added today, so that’s five comments so far. Interesting eh.

Anyway, I haven’t posted for a while either, so I will now.

I’ve been unemployed for about three weeks now. I quit Soup because I had been there for a year and it was starting to be a pain getting up and going in every morning. Annoyingly I am now sleeping too long, but getting out of bed is still too much hassle. Half an hour later it’s fine. Ah well.

So I’m now freelance again, with the emphasis definitely on free. Offers of work are coming in (thank you Robert). So in the mean time I’m catching up on all the stuff that I never have time to do. So far this has included:

1. Working on a C++ version of Hype
2. Programming a line drawing algorithm in Flash
3. Programming basic animation in Java (I made a rotating square, it took two days).
4. Programming a bouncing ball in Flash
5. A bit of basic OpenGL coding on my Mac
6. Photoshopping! Yay, haven’t done any rasterbating for ages.
7. Attempting to code the Boid flocking algorithm in Flash

All of these have required an amount of revision of various mathematical and programming topics, I’ve had to relearn Newtonian physics, vector math and matrix math pretty much from the ground, that’s because I never paid any attention in lectures. My C++ and Java were pretty rusty as well.

The flocking looks like it really doesn’t want to be coded in Flash, but there you go. I had a look and I could only find one other implementation and it wasn’t complete. Then again my version probably won’t be either…