Maths

Looking around the Internet, I was a little disappointed to find that blogger doesn't natively support Latex. Fortunately there's a nifty program that you can run on a web server that will output latex code as a png.

Let and . Then either or .

The two dimentional gradient vector for a function u(x, y) is, .

All made possible thanks to http://www.forkosh.com/mathtex.html - cheers!

Plans

This journal (I hate the word blog) is going to be a place for me to organise my thoughts. I intend to list projects I'd like to do and follow them through development with regular posts showing the problems I encounter. I hope maybe it can be of use to others as well, but that is not my primary motive. Anyway, if you're actually reading this I must have done something right.

The list of projects I'd like to complete:

• Collada loader
• Decent text rendering
• Screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO)
• A simple memory allocation tracker
• Light perspective shadow maps
• Self-shadowed normal mapping
• Rain on glass shader
• Efficient perlin noise generated terrain with dynamic LOD
• Sky dome with vertex shader to interpolate given colours
  • Real time modification of shader inputs

Also my loan came through last night so I went on a shopping spree. I ended up buying:

• TH Cormen, Introduction to Algorithms (Paperback)
• John B. Fraleigh, A First Course in Abstract Algebra (International Edition) (Paperback)
• Ian Stewart, David Tall, Complex Analysis: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Plane (Paperback)

I'll try and do a brief review of them when I'm done reading.