Well, I’m knackered. To get to University each day by 9 I need to be up at 7, for which my tender body is taking its toll mightily. Still, soldier on!
I’ve just about hit the limits for my Java app. I’ve got my omnidirectional (and ambient) lighting working with intensities, drop-off values and colours - I can even make multiple lights and move them around in the simple 3D world. Still, Java is monsterously slow at rendering each triangle, which means I’m about at the point of diminishing returns - any enhancements now will slow down the system to far below acceptable levels (and I’m only getting about 10FPS with a 7,000 polygon model as it is).
I’d rather have a go at the thing in C, which I can optimize quite well, but I can’t get the darn GTK windowing library to work with my C code on the server. I think I’ll benchmark of all things VB.NET next and see how it does in rendering large amounts of triangle primatives.
I’ve started to get quite annoyed at Unix - so complex and so prone to blowing up in your face. It’s darn powerful, but the fact that I spent a very long time debugging my logon scripts after a minute change (which caused a cascade of unrelated errors) today makes me a little less fond of it. It’s nice to be able to pipe the output of a ls command into grep, sort and mail in sequence as one command, but when each command takes 90 pages of manual reading to get to work it seems a little less worthwhile.
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