December 2008 - Posts

Getting my location
29 December 08 12:47 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Acoustic shows off a quick easy way to get “good enough” GPS coordinates from your Windows Mobile phone .  Did I say “Good enough”?  I did and am referring to Assisted GPS triangulation.  It won’t give you a precise location lock, however, Read More...

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8-ball, corner pocket, off side wall
18 December 08 02:57 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

No matter how much I study physics or play pool, I still am horrible.  Some clever students at Georgia Tech University helped solve my inability to play pool with a projector, mirrors, e-Box 2300 and Visual Studio! They used a key-stoning algorithm Read More...

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Coding Unreal Tournament3 Bots
16 December 08 12:32 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Have you ever played a first person shooter? Then you've probably played against computer controlled players known as "bots" which are computer programs designed with artificial intelligence. Up until now the only way to do create your own bot Read More...

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My, my, the mona lisa, looking good
09 December 08 09:49 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Roger Alsing saw a challenge and it was to recreate the Mona Lisa in only 50 semi-transparent polygons .  Prior to the challenge, he created a small program before to help do some genetic programming and adapted it to the challenge.  The image Read More...

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Coding4Fun Holiday Gift Guide 2008
06 December 08 12:31 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

With every year, the Coding4Fun team has come up with a small army of gift ideas. Here's our list of gift ideas sorted by price, starting from the freebies (things you should just have installed on your PC) all the way to up to gifts that are $500.  Read More...