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Chapman World

@chapmanworld.com

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Mostly writing software... mostly. chapmanworld.com

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 28/02/2026

Real life is a fun game, immersive audio and graphics and stuff, but for several seasons now its had low poly cars, and I still can't get used to seeing them...

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 13/04/2025

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 07/02/2025

Doge grabbed the money, under it goes, where it ends up... Lets see what the current administration does with all the savings, I'm sure they'll be transparent about it.

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 12/01/2025

The matrix

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 10/01/2025

You've been writing some deeply technical or low level code, focusing hard, and finally it comes together. The output of your program isn't particularly interesting or impressive, but you know the work that went into it and it feels amazing. Only another coder could understand. Sharing my latest...

Output from a windows executable generated by an experimental linker, which displays "ChapmanWorld Rocks!" in ASCII art.

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 29/11/2024

More thread balancing, but figured I'd put this to the test with some load. 50,006 tiny cube meshes, simulated once and rendered twice per frame. Not sure the render FPS, I'm not measuring it yet, but the engine is holding up reasonably well under load, given that it's OpenGL! Bed time, good night!

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanks Giving! With the holiday and having a family, I have very little programing time today. Another hour invested, and not much visual change, but I tuned the threading model to ensure no CPU cycles are burned by either the render or simulation threads...

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 27/11/2024

I know that it's very unproductive, but as I make each tiny little incremental change to this rendering engine, I can't help but to stop and play with it.

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 24/11/2024

Posting a reply to this today, inspired me to get out the screw driver. And now, SHE LIVES! This one is mint, not even missing one of the crumby plastic PCB clips. It does need a new keyboars membrane, but otherwise in perfect condition. The new crown jewel in my retro collection.

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 24/11/2024

Almost. (This one has 'the fault' though. Still working to repair)

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 23/11/2024

Not a whole lot of free time to work on it this week, so it doesn't look like much progress. That said, being able to render different views of the same object in separate windows is a key feature of my platform abstraction layer, so it's worth the time I have spent!

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 20/11/2024

My early path to dev

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Chapman World @chapmanworld.com · 17/11/2024

My latest project, 1 of 2. I'm going to build a small game, and maybe this prototype will become an "engine" of sorts. This is the beginnings of the renderer, window and scene managers, with mouse, keyb, partial game-pad support. I give you, the rainbow cube.

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