The Hacks of Life

Just a science experiment from the weekend.  LDraw parts have been scaled to get them to all fit on screen together.

I was flipping through MOC-train pictures and was struck by this image.  What got my attention is not only that it is a very well done m...

I spent about three hours yesterday tracking down a weird bug in CGAL - I have code that builds a general polygon set out of an arrangeme...

BrickSmith is a FOSS 3-d LDraw -compatible editor for Mac; basically it lets you model legos on your computer. BrickSmith is a wonderful...

Years after the X-Plane plugin SDK was ported to operating systems that support Unix .a (archive) static libraries, I have finally come to ...

X-Plane supports a plugin SDK; plugins are dynamic libraries loaded by the sim into it's process address space.  X-Plane plugins link ...

To paraphrase the famous Nike Tiger Woods ad, "...and, did you learn anything?" X-Plane is more of a platform than a game - we...