CodeWarrior's Cruft

Yes, I've called it Frisk! Version 0.0.1 is ready, no public release yet, but I'm started to feel fairly happy with the solid foundations Frisk is being built on top. As it stands, there are 3 libraries (aside the other libraries from the EFL) that are being built: fkinetic, fthumbnailer, and fmultiscale. The first being a generic kinetic movement area, the second being a distributed thumbnailer and caching engine, and the third being the code display widget that lays out images and decides how to move them around and manipulate them.

I'm coming up with TODO lists for each of the sub-projects, so far, I have one for fmultiscale. I'm going to add more info to a page dedicated to this project.

I added some of my configuration files here. You can take a look at them in the configs page accessible through the menu.

I've been working on a new concept for an image viewing / searching application. For lack of a better name, it's called Finder for now. The idea is the following. Say you want to find an image on your system; you know its mainly blue (of some sky), but you don't remember its name, size, location, or when you got it. How can you go about looking for it? You fire up Finder, let it loose on your system, and ask it to cluster images by color. The end result is a big map of all your images, zoomed out, such that every corner of the image represents a color, and the closer you move from one corner to another, you see the colors converging into a gradient. So, naturally, you'd go to the blue area, use your mouse wheel to start zooming in and out, and "throw" the images around (using a kinetic energy panning approach) until you start finding something that resembles the image you're looking for. You can then zoom in and out, and pan around, until you find your target image, at which point you can pick it up and use it. Right now, I've implemented the kinetic panning area, an LRU multi-layered cache system for the images, and the (*huge*) image grid widget that will hold those thousands and thousands of images. Some of the major challenges at this point are being able to handle the vast amount of data thrown at the application, scrolling it around, loading / unloading images, etc. The next major hurdle to jump over is going to be zooming in and out pretty fast (a problem that might be solved using mipmaps, but might require OpenGL, something I'm trying to avoid).
UPDATE: Video here.

Off to the track! Soon! I was at qualifying yesterday, and seeing those F1 cars zoom, turn, and accelerate in front of me was awesome! I cant wait for the big race today (=

I added a small widget to the right sidebar that shows what music I'm currently listening to by pulling stuff from Last.fm. So far looking good, lets see what happens when I leave the music turned off at home and I listen to other stuff at the office (=

The last 2 weeks went by way faster than I wanted them to. I had my family over and it was just great. We had a wonderful time, got my place fixed up with all sorts of funky things, and over all spent quality time together. Nothing much to say, just thought I'd go for a small post to let everyone know where I've been lately (=