Planet Chili

I believe what you're looking for is the tick event of the timer. Each time it ticks you can update the position of the cards, then stop the timer after a certain number of ticks or after all cards have reached their final position.

I would suggest using a timer to move the cards, you start the timer when the cards should begin moving and at every tick of the timer you adjust their position slightly, then stop the timer after a certain number of adjustments. I recently discovered that it's also possible to create Windows UI app...

Yeah our line of thinking is very similar. A perceptron is really quite simplistic, it just takes the sum of the inputs and runs the result through an activation function, typically a sigmoid function (which is why one of the node types in EvoSim uses the tanh function). ANN's can be very good for d...

Yeah I've seen that NEAT stuff before, definitely one of the more interesting approaches to evolving ANN's because the human brain has very regular and symmetrical network patterns. Quite some time ago I actually wrote a genetic algorithm to evolve ANN's but it was no where near as complex as the Ev...

I did quite a bit of work on updating my ray tracing engine to use the GPU instead of the CPU. As a result I totally recoded the Chili Framework to work with OpenCL and OpenGL instead of DirectX. OpenCL is used to compute the frame rendering which is then displayed in an OpenGL window. Interoperabil...

Hello again guys, been working on a rather interesting project lately and decided to make it open source. I don't really post on any other programming forums so decided to post it here even though it's not really related to game programming. It was a very good learning experience because I made use ...

Yeah array indexing is a good example. In my ray tracing engine I used unsigned integers for quite a few things. One thing I used them for was to count the number of vertices in a mesh. There's no need for a negative range in that case and I can index twice as many vertices by using an unsigned inte...

The only real advantage to using an unsigned int is probably in situations where you only need to store positive numbers but an unsigned int doesn't go high enough for what you need, or you're not sure how high it might need to go so you need as much room as possible. For example a 32bit integer goe...

There's one other important optimization method I forgot to mention in my last post but I did briefly mention it in the paper. A traditional 3D acceleration structure can be precomputed for each object and used to sort the triangles in the mesh so that when it comes time to test a ray against that o...

///////////// Solid and Transparent surfaces ///////////// I've been losing sleep over this, lol. I know I've been pushing hard to get away from linked lists, but man figuring out how much ram to allocate ahead of time is pretty difficult. Read an article that really explains why linked lists are a...