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Journal Journal: My blog's at http://www.DonHopkins.com

Journal by SimHacker on Monday February 23, 2004 @09:48AM

My blog's at http://www.DonHopkins.com. Please go there instead of here!

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http://www.donhopkins.com/
Hacking TomTom, OLPC, SimCity, OpenLaszlo. Developed pie menus (http://www.PieMenu.com) for many platforms. Worked with Will Wright at Maxis on The Sims, designed and implemented the 3D character animation system, graphics and user interface stuff (pie menus, house editing tools, censorship), object editing and programming tools (Edith, SimShow, SimTransmogrifier). Developed tools and content for The Sims, ported The Sims Online server to Linux, developed multi player SimCity Classic on Linux. Programmed Will Wright's robot brain. Hacking cellular automata, real time video, image processing, audio, speech synthesis and recognition, programming languages and tools. Favorites: OpenLaszlo, Python, TurboGears, SQLObject, Kid, SWIG, Lua, Lisp.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of space and time. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge