Monthly Archives: April 2008

Lucasfilm releases details of new advanced CGI techniques

Well in those days computers were apparently 1-4Mhz on the server end of things. Doing wireframe perspective matrix transformations quick enough to rotate things in real time was a big deal. I mean… I wasn’t born yet – but the literature clearly indicates there were parties in the streets. LOL Is this kind-of like a …

April 21st, 2008 – 12:48 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings, Geeky Technical Stuff, Space, Video of the Day | Tagged | Comments (0)

Edward Lorenz dead at 90

Who is Edward Lorenz? Well he’s known in scientific circles as the father of chaos theory. Chaos theory explores the relatioships between tiny changes in a dynamic system and the vast impacts these changes can have. For me this is a somber day as I fondly remember reading about chaos theory in my school library …

April 17th, 2008 – 9:33 am | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings, Death, Geeky Technical Stuff, Notable Days, Space | Tagged | Comments (0)

PHP toalpha and toalphanum

These aren’t default functions but I thought I’d post them: <?php function toalphanum( $string ) { $newstring = “”; for( $i = 0; $i < strlen( $string ); $i++ ) { if( ( ( $string[$i] >= “A” ) && ( $string[$i] < = "z" ) ) || ( ( $string[$i] >= “0″ ) && ( …

April 11th, 2008 – 2:01 pm | By Ean | Posted in Geeky Technical Stuff | Comments (0)

I can’t be bothered lately…

I’ve put my efforts into too many other things lately and I’ve severely neglected this blog. I apologize to all two of my readers. Sorry. :3

April 3rd, 2008 – 11:42 am | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Comments (0)