Monthly Archives: March 2008

Issues in Writing a VM – Part 2

Posted on 2008-03-28 by lorg

Writing a VM capable of executing expression trees is different from writing a VM for executing assembly instructions. Here I’ll cover several issues stemming from this difference. The first group of issues involve generality. Supporting a specific instruction set is … Continue reading →

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Back From the Dead

Posted on 2008-03-28 by lorg

As you can see, the website is back online, and I hope it stays that way. Cheers go to Randy and James, for fixing the server. I’ve been doing various things lately, including work on Vial and various university tests. … Continue reading →

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Issues in writing a VM – Part 1

Posted on 2008-03-18 by lorg

Arkon and I decided to write a VM for vial. First though, a short explanation on what is vial: vial is a project aimed at writing a general disassembler that outputs expression trees instead of text. On top of vial, … Continue reading →

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Origami Rhino Instructions

Posted on 2008-03-15 by lorg

Finally, here are the instructions for the rhino. I found out it is not a clean fold – the ending does not fold neatly. It is also not an easy fold, and it takes some work to get done. That … Continue reading →

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The Case Against Floating Point ==

Posted on 2008-03-12 by lorg

While working on the clipping bug, I had to do some floating point comparisons. To handle this virtual mine-field, I used simple precision comparisons. Not surprisingly, I wanted to know what’s ‘the right way’ to do this in Python. When … Continue reading →

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Various Small Python Helpers

Posted on 2008-03-09 by lorg

I’ve been working lately with arkon on various projects related to diStorm. One of these projects involved writing a solid Python API around an existing C API. This C API uses a lot of flags as arguments and return values … Continue reading →

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Two Mathematical Bugs

Posted on 2008-03-08 by lorg

A few days ago, I discovered I had at least one, maybe two mathematical bugs. The first bug is in the line clipping algorithm. Here’s a quick reminder of what’s going on there: There are six points of interest: the … Continue reading →

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More Origami

Posted on 2008-03-07 by lorg

After working on it, I managed to reverse engineer my origami rhino fold. Here’s how it’s going to look: To reverse engineer it, I had to open my original fold, and try to reproduce the fold, a bit like working … Continue reading →

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