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Compiling Ivy Generator for Ubuntu 8.10 64bit

I stumbled upon this site:
http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/

And thought it warranted a closer look. Downloaded it and tried running the binary only to find that it couldn’t find some of my libs, so I decided to compile it instead - because it looks like that might have been compiled for 32 bit.

Here’s the steps on how to do it:

Download and extract the files somewhere you like to work, I usually just do it on ~/Desktop but you can mkdir your own tmp in $HOME.

To start, make sure you’ve got the right qtlibs, I had to run this (intrepid ibex):
sudo apt-get install libqt4-opengl-dev libqt4-dev
This installs some development files needed for compiling qt4 programs.

Next, we need to make sure that the project file is modified so it can actually use OpenGL, edit src/src.pro, adding this line:

QT += opengl

I put it after the INCLUDEPATH directive if you have troubles placing it elsewhere, kudos to “jacek” at the qtcentre.org forums for having the answer to that (I googled and found this: http://www.qtcentre.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-7914.html )
Next, make sure you remake your make file with qmake-qt4 (the project is qt4)
Then type make. This will make an application in the src directory called src
mv src ../bin/IvyGenerator if you want, then go to the bin directory and run it!
Here’s a picture of it running on my 64 bit Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex:

UPDATE: Here’s a shot of it with some vines on some terrain I found online:

Tags: compiling, development, IvyGenerator, libqt4, linux, ubuntu

Subaru WRX Sti on a SKI HILL.

Holy crap.

Just.. wow…

Then I found this:

and I cringed. Poor subie

Tags: ski, snow, snowboard, subaru

Good Music Recommendations

As always, check riaaradar before you buy any music online.
RIAAradar says these are not safe:

• TeddyBears - Soft Machine (thepiratebay.org)
• Mark Ronson - Version (thepiratebay.org)

RIAARadar says these are safe:

• Justice - Cross
• The Dudes - Brain Heart Guitar

Tags: good music, music, recommendations

Colours and transparencies

You may have noticed a redesign of the upper bar up top there and, if you’re using Firefox, like all people should be, then you’ll notice rounded borders and a transparent background - this is intentional and I’ve made it so that the color of the title bar is the same color as it was before, but it has an opacity of about 70% (PNG property) and a bit of alpha transparency to boot (had to do this to match the colours)… Basically I’ve had to change the color of the image slightly in order to compensate for the white background melding in with it through the transparency.

To show what I mean, look at this image:

HSLA:151,69,115,255

and this image:

HSLA: 151,255,46,244

Can you see a difference? You shouldn’t be able to, I’ve crafted the second image with the idea that I have a white background, and it’s going to be 70% opacity. Unless of course you’re using a crippled browser like IE - in which case you need to get your head checked bubba - IE is the bane of sane web developers everywhere!

Tags: colours, design, inkscape, opacity

C’mon mother nature, bring it!!!

Go on! This car can take it!!

Tags: canada, car, handling, honda, prelude, snow, winter

How to start a specific virtual Machine using VirtualBox in ubuntu

I use VirtualBox in Ubuntu (8.10) regularly, mainly because I can now pass my iPod through to a virtualized Windows XP, and I found a neat little way to automatically start windows XP instead of having to go through VirtualBox’s main window.

If you run VirtualBox --help, you’ll get some friendly advice on how to do this, which is like so:

VirtualBox -startvm <vmname|UUID>

If you’re adventurous, you can find the UUID of your virtual machine but I’m lazy so all I do is this:

VirtualBox -startvm "Windows XP"

“Windows XP” is the virtual machine name that I run the most. I’ve made a link on the desktop for my Fiancée so it starts automatically. I love computing.

Tags: ubuntu, virtual machine, virtualbox, windows xp