Generated Landsapes

Polynomial Surfaces

• 5/19/03 - For those of you who are Scrabble fans, now you can use this page to find out whether a word is in the scrabble dictionary. If you happen to have some sort of mobile device that lets you run Java CLDC/MIDP software, then you can use this software to access a stripped down version of the dictionary checker with your mobile phone, PDA, or blackberry pager.
• 5/13/03 - I have just completed a very rudimentary real time chat engine. The client is written in Java, so if you have the Java Virtual Machine from Sun, you can test it out here. If you are behind a firewall, you'll have to open port 12345. It functions by simply sending whatever you type to everyone who is currently looking at the page. To really test it out, you should open up two browser windows, or get a friend to look at the page at the same time you are. I have yet to add individual handles and pass notifications saying who is logged on, but that will come in the future.
• 5/7/03 - I posted just last night a demonstration of the de Casteljau algorithm for drawing and manipulating polynomial surfaces.
• 5/4/03 - This is the first news bulliten for my web site. I have put up a demonstration of an interesting landscape generation algorithm. This has obvious uses as a landscape generator, but may also be used to randomly generate anything that comes in clusters such as clouds, tree density, etc.