Next meeting, December 3rd

Bob Cober plug-devel@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sun Dec 2 20:56:02 2001


Sure....
See below


----- Original Message -----
From: Victor Odhner <vodhner@home.com>
To: <plug-devel@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: Next meeting, December 3rd


> Bob, in prep for the meeting, please give me some pointers
> so I could absorb more of what you'll have to say.
>
> Bob Cober wrote:
> > The code also illustrates the use of some of the
> > patterns out of Design Patterns - the singleton and facade.
>
> Do you have a URL that would soften up this subject for me?
>
http://hillside.net/patterns/DPBook/DPBook.html
> > The graphics are all done with OpenGL - a large topic in itself
>
> Likewies for OpenGL.  Links?
>
http://www.opengl.org/
> And SDL?
>
http://www.libsdl.org/
> And what is a particle system?
>
A particle system is simply a collection of particles that have velocity -
typically used for explosions and other special effects.
http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=Particle_System


> Gee I feel dumb.  But I'd like to pick up a little vocabulary
> before tomorrow evening.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vic
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