Floating Sandbox 1.12 – aka The Fire and Heat update or Trial by Fire – is being released today on GameJolt.com. This new version of the physics simulator introduces thermodynamics, giving players the ability to heat or cool parts of the ships until materials reach their burning and melting points. Particles transfer heat between each other and […]
Read More Controlling Heat and Fire in Floating Sandbox 1.12The upcoming 1.11 release of Floating Sandbox sports a completely redesigned wave sub-system. The previous wave simulation was a simple superimposition of two sine waves, for which the user could control height and speed. The visual results were not that bad with default settings: When increasing wave height, though, the “fake” nature of the waves […]
Read More 1D Simulation of Ocean WavesWhile working on Floating Sandbox 1.10.0 I stumbled upon an issue that I totally didn’t see coming. A user (Dkuz The Fox, thank you) reported that when placing an anti-matter bomb on the tail of the Submarine 3000, the submarine would at times disappear. And even more intriguing was the fact that this would only […]
Read More Euler Fights with Square DragWhile working on Floating Sandbox 1.8 I realized I’d gone through 8 versions without noticing a subtle bug in the buoyancy simulation. Fixing the bug challenged my common sense on how things really sink underwater, and after bringing up the discussion at lunch with some of my colleagues, I realized it was not only my […]
Read More A Physics PuzzleFor the 1.5.0 release of Floating Sandbox I had decided to work on rethinking the simulation of water entering physical bodies through a hole in the hull. The 1.4.0 simulation was based on simple Newtonian-like mechanics and consisted of 3 steps: Water Intake: each point adjacent to a hole in the hull would take a quantity […]
Read More Momentum-Based Simulation of Water Flooding 2D SpacesToday was my last day of work at my current company, and I paid a visit to the company’s offices to return company property and cleanup my drawer. On my way out, I had a last glance at the patch panel of the office – it took me a few days in February 2010 to […]
Read More Proud of My Patch PanelRadi brought to my attention this post from Veracode’s Chris Eng on How to Become an Information Security Thought Leader. This video reminds me of so many thought leaders I’ve met. If only I could get them to watch it now 🙂
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