The goal of this project was to implement marching cubes, GLUI and output the extracted surface as a mesh file. This was accomplished using OpenGL, the Marching Cubes Algorithm, GLUT and GLUI. Currently, the user is able to create Metaballs (spheres) and then using the GLUI – change the voxelization density, light color, scale, rotate and translate the spheres.
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Request an Android Tutorial by leaving me a comment on this post and I will create one!
–Eric
Filed under Android
Allowing your users to “Like” your wordpress posts on Facebook is just a few clicks away. This tutorial shows you how to add this functionality by installing a new plugin. Continue reading
Filed under Facebook, Technology
After doing some SEO Work for a friend, I came across a great PHP framework for rapid dynamic website dev: codeIgniter. What’s great about it is that not only does it have a great framework but there is a complete tutorial on creating a CMS from scratch using codeIngiter. If you have some spare time over the weekend and are interested in learning how to do PHP web dev, check out this tutorial: CodeIgniter Tutorial
Filed under Technology
Tired of having your fan page’s url set to facebook.com/pages/fan-page-name/39012903290? Or having your facebook page’s url be facebook.com/12302390?
Filed under Facebook, Technology
This tutorial assumes you have done some preliminary setup:
Filed under Android, Facebook, Programming
This problem probably cost me about 2hrs. There is a bug in version <9.0 of the Android SDK that will cause Eclipse to give the dreaded NullPointerException for Android Application and Android Unit Tests </lame>.
However, there is a simple solution to this problem:
Help->check for updates.
It will tell you that you can update to SDK v9.0: do it, and you are good to go! You can edit your Run Configs and Test Configs without getting cryptic error messages anymore.
Filed under Android
For one of my current projects, bpstats.com, I needed to learn how to interface with a REST webservice from an Android application.
Here is a tutorial for creating a generic REST webservice client for the Android SDK. Continue reading
Filed under Android, Programming
Calibri sucks. Open Office default fonts are bad on a good day. Adding support for the core MS Fonts is really easy and definitely worth the two minute effort.
Simply open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
This will install all of the MS fonts that are available in Microsoft Word for you to use in Open Office!
If you are using OpenOffice, restart it and you can finally use Arial instead of Calibri (Thank God!).
Filed under Linux