We’ve seen our fair share of AVR projects, but this one’s pretty cool. AVGA is a color video game development platform based on the Atmel AVR family of microcontrollers. As seen in the picture above, one of the AVRs that the project uses is the popular ATMega168. There were several technical hurdles to using the AVRs to run color video games; one of the most difficult problems was figuring out a way to display detailed graphics from AVRs limited onboard RAM. Eventually, the developers figured out a way to display detailed graphics using a TILE-based driver. The TILE driver…

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You like the rough? Rather than redundant, take advantage of the results are scrawled into a slick graphic design. Can be used for web, mobile phone wallpaper, or even a T-shirt design. Sablon digital services are now a mushroom. Imagine if you wear a T-shirt design is your own, is not proud?Why not make it difficult. You transfer the results of spike-spike to your PC, and made the design-based vectors with the help of CorelDraw x4. Why should vectors? Because the image quality, especially cartoons, will become slick with this format.Once finished, you can bring them to sablon fitter. If…

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A couple of days ago i found a great framework called AForge.NET.
AForge.NET is a C# framework designed for developers and researchers in the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence – image processing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, robotics, etc.

The framework is published under LGPL v3 license and comprised by the set of libraries and sample applications, which demonstrate their features:

AForge.Imaging – library with image processing routines and filters
AForge.Vision – computer vision library
AForge.Neuro – neural networks computation library
AForge.Genetic – evolution programming library
AForge.MachineLearning – machine learning library
AForge.Robotics – library providing support of…

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Sometimes, you’re faced with the problem to cramp as many smaller textures as possible onto a larger texture. Typical cases are lightmaps, which are very small textures with dimensions that usually are not powers of two, or bitmap fonts where you want to try and fit the entire ascii character set onto a texture without wasting much space.
What you need then, is a rectangle packer, an algorithm that arranges as many smaller rectangles on a larger rectangle as can possibly fit.

The Nuclex.Support assembly contains several rectangle packing algorithms in the Nuclex.Support.Packing namespace offering various levels of compromises between…

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