The Labyrinth is reborn
I'm having a nice weekend. I'm feeling a little stress because there aren't enough hours in the day to get a few things done that I need to complete. I'm just about done with Beta2 of GAI.NET. I expect to complete it tonight, but don't hold me to that. The article is basically done. The scaling problem is fixed, the GA Engine is fully separated (decoupled) from the UI, etc.
But I'm writing tonight because the lower cased one has a new application, Labyrinth. After watching him struggle with a number of parts to make this application work, he has finally delivered. It is pretty. Pretty awesome that is.
If you remember the old wooden Labyrinth game where you put a metal ball on a wooden maze and by tilting the top of the board, the ball would move through the maze, the lower cased one has duplicated it for the TabletPC.
Now here's the coolness. He uses camera flow, i.e. a camera mounted on the TabletPC controls the angle that is fed to the table. NO MOUSE REQUIRED. As you tilt your TabletPC, the game responds and the table top of the Labyrinth board is rendered with the changes. He refers to a few people that helped him with the physics, including me, but the effort was all his. The binaries are available now, with the source coming at a later date.
Way to go man.