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Thursday, May 04, 2006

 

Polymorphism and POV-Ray

Have been super busy making new virtual characters, both at Pandorabots and with Java. There's an IRC bot written in Java on the IBM Web site, BasicIRCBot/Testbot. I got it to run at freenode using Eclipse and ChatZilla. Trouble was, every time the bot sent me a message, the library computer beeped at the system level. Not a good configuration for library use!

My Java tutor told me yesterday that the concept of polymorphism (think "many changing shapes") is key in Java. This is good, because it turns out that it's the concept of a taxonomy, a hierarchy with the most general at the top branching down to the most specific at the bottom. Have already been doing that for a long time with Pbots.

We also downloaded POV-Ray, a persistence-of-vision raytracing program in which one can make 3D images. It has its own proprietary source code. Luckily I'm already familiar with XYZ axes and RGB values.

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