..just a light thought..

..the only reason love exists for is better orgasms..

What is Ethereal?

I have to admit something - I'm a person who always has to do something with his free time. I find it impossible to sit in one place for a longer time without doing anything constructive; sooner or later I get these terrible pangs of conscience and simply have to find something to do. Probably owing to this, I've made an animation in cooperation with a friend of mine, which was shown on one of the Polish demoscene parties this year and turned out to be ranked as first in the wild compo entry competition. You can watch the whole thing below - but keep in mind it's Polish. Oh, and it does contain f-words as well :)



The whole thing devoured quite a lot of time to be finished - I was out of touch for around 2 months. What's really important is that during the production we came to conclusion that nobody has written a satisfying freeware video editor for Windows. Okay, to be honest: there's no free video editor for Windows at all - excluding Microsoft's Windows Movie Maker, but it was way too much simple for us and it didn't fulfill our requirements.

Being a programmer is a Chuck Norris piece of shit. It usually means that if you ever lack software of whatever kind, you desperately start thinking about writing a piece of it on your own. That really sucks, especially if you step on something as huge and complex as editor of any kind. It's even worse than falling into a dog crap.

You can usually forget about the latter in a day or two.

The worse thing is yet to come though. I'm also a member of the demoscene - in just a few words, it's a society of artists who use their computers to create real-time multimedia presentations. Meaning that some of them are graphicians, some are musicians, designers , and so on. Due to that, I decided to make my task a little bit more tougher and started to code an engine which would later on serve as a basis for both video editing purposes and real-time presentations.

It could be a really useful piece of software. You could get rid of Powerpoint and use Ethereal [because that's how I called the project] in order to prepare some presentation with animated 2D/3D parts and music playing in the background. You could create an animated valentine card and claim it's of your own. You could cut all of your videos, arrange them in some order, prepare a montage of them and render them to an avi file, which you'd be able to post on youtube later on. The possibilities are actually endless.

Still, this is really a huge thing, and as you might have already guessed, I have nothing to show you at the moment. There are some basic things working, like mesh instancing, depth texture rendering, render-to-texture feature or shaders support, but these are so low-level features, that they'll probably be invisible to an end-user. Nevertheless, I hope I'll manage to finish this project some day. It's going to kick some major butts, and you're probably going to hear about it some time in the future.. assuming I'm not going to commit a suicide because of the Ethereal complexity.

..some notes from the scrapbook..

Not so long ago I was sitting on the window sill, looking out the windows of the department I currently study at. Nothing worth mentioning, you might say, and that would so goddamn true ..but the first thing you perceive the moment you start staring are the high-rises, actually quite a lot of them. Full of people, I suppose.. or maybe they're just ghosts?


Math department is not the best place for looking out for life-time friends, maybe due to the fact people here tend to be quite unsocial and unfriendly, or they usually stick together in small groups. Anyway, the world suddenly changes, as if you'd have done a couple of swings with your magical wand, if you leave the building and head over to the dormitory. Out of the blue there emerges a new dimension, lavishing with friendship, fun and love flowing around in the air. Whenever you leave your room, be it 2AM, 2PM, or whatever, you can hear some people chattering, laughing, you always have this odd feeling, that there's someone you can talk to if you feel low. Or is it just my imagination speaking? That could be the case, as I've never had the chance to live in a dormitory - it so happened, that I was born in the city and didn't have to move to another town.

Furthermore, let's assume you live in a high-rise. Well, theoretically it's like there are people surrounding you as well, you're just separated from them by walls. If you stick your ears onto those, you could even hear someone snoring.

Why is it so different then? Do people get more and more untrusting with each passing year?


Oh well, I think it's just my loneliness [or envy?] speaking. Sometimes you feel so lonely, even though you're surrounded by other people.

Someone here needs a hug ?


I promised to post some details on what I've been working on lately, but I'm not really in the mood. Please, don't kill me ;-)

..slowly..

..immersing myself into development work again. I'm planning to post some details on what I'm currently digging into on weekend, so stay tuned.

Well, whatever. :)

..burnt out..

An old photo I took a long, long time ago.

Turns out to be quite up-to-date, actually.

Ever felt the same way?

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