Links #2

Some time ago, John Carmack, the 3d graphics guru and one of my heroes, released the source code for the Quake3 and Quake2 engines. The following links demonstrate some of the consequences of this noble action:

1. Haskell Quake: The Quake 3 Engine using the Haskell functional programming language.
2. Quake 3 Raytraced : Quake 3 rendered using real time ray tracing (powered by OpenRT). While you are at it, also check out Quake4 Raytraced.
3. Quake on the Grid: In conjunction with IBM, a group of college students from the University of Wisconsin developed GameGrid to run a distributed version of Quake2.

And of course we got some great open source games like Tremulus. If you know of more examples of putting the Quake 3 engine to great use in pushing the State of the Art, please let me know by commenting to this article.

Links #1

This is the first in a (hopefully) long series of 'Links' articles. Each Friday I will be presenting the 3 best links I visited over the week for your to enjoy over the weekend. Be assured that only the most interesting links will make it to this list. So let's kick start our series with the first installment:

1. The world needs only five computers, utility computing seems to be the way of the future. It is interesting to note that this really closes the circle that started in the 60's (mainframes/high level languages -> pc's/C -> grid/high level languages)
2. 50 Beautiful CSS-Based web designs in 2006, I am sure you will find some ideas to 'borrow' here
3. Little known ways to brand on the cheap, If you need to promote your Blog you will find intelligent and practical advices here

Check back again next week for another selection of interesting links!

Selected by Gmosx

Amazon recently added a nice feature to its Associates Program: Astore. In essence, this allows you to build a customized store and sell items from Amazon's vast product catalog. As I plan to review or reference a lot of books and other products in this Blog, I thought it was a good idea to prepare a nice little collection of carefully selected books, DVD's, Music, Games, etc.

Well, welcome to 'Selected by Gmosx' then! If you are interested in programming, business, design, computers, games, music, movies, science and more you will find something you like here. Only the absolutely best products will be featured in this shop. Check back often to view the latest additions. And remember, when ordering from my store you are supporting my continuous work on numerous free projects.