Author Archives: Owen

Seen while washing dishes

September 11, 2005 – 9:34 pm

Ice on a puddle? No, it’s salt crystals I found this morning in the bottom of my sphaghetti pot. A little bit of salty water had dried up leaving these crystals behind. There’s several interesting things about the image to me: it demonstrates very well the idea of domains – crystals started at various nucleation […]

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GUADEC registration fee

April 29, 2005 – 10:07 am

First let me say that I don’t think anyone is entirely happy with the registration fee situation. Obviously the fact that payment is only by paypal is far from ideal. I’m not completely in agreement with where the registration levels were set. The website is confusing. But it’s not an attempt to rip people off […]

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Cooking

April 7, 2005 – 11:42 pm

My cousin Alice from Germany has been staying me this week and exploring Boston, and we’ve done quite a bit of cooking in the evenings. On Saturday we cooked Indian: a dish of tomatoes and masoor daal (based on a recipe titled rasam, but it didn’t come out remotely like that, though it was tasty […]

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Pagers in Luminocity

December 3, 2004 – 2:37 pm

I’ve been spending some time again this week on Luminocity; mostly redoing the texture handling code. With the rewrite, it can break windows larger than the max allowed texture size into multiple tiles, and I’ve also added mipmap support. After getting the mipmaps working, I quickly hacked up live thumbnailing pagers: From a code perspective, […]

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Rotated text in GTK+ and GDK

November 20, 2004 – 5:50 pm

Many years ago, when Microsoft first added TrueType support to Windows, I remember being very impressed by a demo where a text string was rotated and drawn in different colors. Simple stuff, really, but something that we’ve never been able to do in GTK+ because of the limitations of the ancient X drawing API. (Crude […]

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