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August 14, 2008

Of Interest 14/08/2008

• Gorgeous pictures of Afghanistan, taken in the 1970s and 2000-2003.
• I found this article on path finding in games interesting. I was amazed to see how broken path finding using way-points is, yet in my (quite limited) experience playing many of the games featured I can't recall running into any problems. It really does show that bar for good enough is quite low, at least for the casual gamer. I was also surprised that the better technique, a navigation mesh, isn't used more frequently. It is so simple.
• How much would you pay for an Olympic medal? For the Australian sports program, a bronze costs $15 million and silver or gold cost a cool $40 million. The (very limited) data suggests medals scale linearly with investment.

Posted by Noel at 10:53 AM | Comments (1)