Hey all!
I thought I might as well prove I’m still alive here. I bet wordpress is getting an itchy trigger finger for deleting me from inactivity, right?
Well, here’s somewhat of a plan I have for getting things done.
I’m rewriting my brush code for my paint program… it’s pretty hilarious to think this way, but I thought I’ll turn my stroke buffer into a parallel datastructure using TBB (threading building blocks). It’s ridiculously easy to do with that library, and you can’t argue with the license. Free is free is free.
I’ll do what I can to give up details on that without giving out too much particular intellectual info. That is, I want to help others start using this library. I might even make an expansion on a structure and post it here.
Also, I’m still in the process of adding adobe’s GIL to the project. Who knows, maybe they’ll like my project enough to give me a few features I might ask of them (More details on that later)
All in all, someone at the arts department at USF seems interested in the project enough that I’ve got a tremendous amount of steam pumped back into the whole thing. I might publish an svn view here if anyone wants to get an idea of how much work I have ahead of me… and lordy, if anyone wants to help me with windows coding, that’d be great. I have OSX leopard and XP, but no vista. And I’m not about to try to install that monster on any of our home computers.
Also, I’m investigating the possibilities of making my first networking module based on SCTP… and later doing a UDP version. TCP is going to be a little… too wonky in some circumstances, so I need to reengineer the brush stroke adapter classes so that I can more easily send a ’stream’ of stroke data. The format right now is very much chunk oriented, and using TCP will put a lot of zaniness on the client (the server always has it easy with just memcpy and wot-not).
Hoody hoo! back to work! I’m learning more about SQL and I might also be learning flash very soon. Again. *sigh*
