the corner office

Finally. I am again the pumping lemma zen master and all non-context-free grammars tremble before me. Or something.

Next: Graphics Programming. I've been looking forward to this assignment all week but given how late I am, there's not much time to really savour it. Mad rush to figure things out, sling together something half-decent looking and hand it in.

As for my Gentoo box... drat. It has a GeForce4 MX onboard GPU, and my efforts to get the nVidia drivers to work with 3D rendering have been resoundingly unsuccessful. There's a Linux app called glxgears which is supposed to give one an indication of the performance of one's graphics card. I can't even run it without freezing up the machine completely. When the study dust settles, I'll see if I can move across my XP box's Radeon.

Right now though, it's needed for my attempts at building an all-singing, all-dancing 3D African Village. I could cry. Last year we had the option of taking one of two tracks for our graphics assignments: the 'scientific' track, doing visualisations of things like Brownian motion blahdy blah, or the 'cultural' track, building a 3D African village. This year they've scrapped the scientific track, and everyone has to do the African village. Fat lot of good it does me; guess which track yours truly decided to follow last year.