Planned Projects

Not in any particular order

• Write my Graphics program for CS433. I think that initially, I will do the modeling program (modeler, wireframe viewer, quick surface viewer, raytracer, texture mapper/editor, etc.), but may switch over and work also on the 3-D BSP based (Wolfenstein type) maze game (possibly in a group, but I would like to do the project this quarter by myself).
  
  This project will be written in C++ and Java. I will be using the JNI to do some of the important calculations in C++, which will be much faster than doing them in straight Java.
  
  Another option that I might be able to pull off, but would require a learning a bunch of API, would be to write this to use OGL or some other type of graphics library. As I have (or will have) 20 credit hours spring quarter 98, I don't think that I will have the time to learn the API, so I will probably end up using Java, and the JNI.
• Write 'The Game' in Java (to put on a web page here)


• Write 'The Game' for Fargo and/or TIC (TI92)


• Update 'The Game'. The version that I have here (which has not been updated in a long time). I have noticed that it has actually been downloaded twice (WOW!). I suppose that the guy from France who downloaded it, will want a version that is more functional, and has much more flexibility.
  
  Future versions will probably require a complete rewrite of the base gameboard stuff (the existing representation that I used is great for saving memory, but is murder for trying to write an 'intelligent' computer player that will be able to make it's turn within 1/2 hour (as a player that I attempted to write).
  
  Since I have to rewrite the base representation of the game board, I figured that I might as well improve the game board, and allow 'user defined shapes' as game board squares.
  When I do write a new format for the game boards, I will provide a game board converter to aide the people who have actually created game boards (there are 3 of them that I know of, not counting myself).
  
  I also need to write the rest of the GUI for The Game. Some people that I have shown it to find it hard to follow from one screen to another, when there is very little consistancy between any of the screens.


• Write a 'Hello, World!' program in every language that I know, or that I learn.


• Complete my interpreter 'Zheme' (a Scheme interpreter done in Java).
  Note: I know that other people have done this before, but I need to do it for myself to get the experience.


• Write some networking based programs (possibly some distributed raytracing stuff {for the experience, not the speed}). These programs will be in both Java and C/C++.


• Work on all of the web pages that I have started here.


• Tons of other crap.

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