Command & Conquer coded in HTML5
January 24, 2012 – 9:57 pm | No Comment

Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.” As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, …

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Spray-on Liquid Glass could change our world

Submitted by admin on February 3, 2010 – 4:19 pmNo Comment

1eb61f942e33261.jpg Spray on Liquid Glass could change our world

Liquid Glass could change our world more than Teflon and GoreTex did. The flexible and breathable material coats any surface with a 1000th-of-an-inch-thick layer of pure silicon dioxide, otherwise known as glass. What’s the big deal about that? Such a fine, smooth film can protect whatever is underneath from bacteria and dirt, and it’s even waterproof and resists UV rays.

When you coat a surface with Liquid Glass, it’s a whole lot easier to clean. Its creator, German company Nanopool, says anything sprayed with this stuff can be completely cleaned with a quick rinse of hot water, and it will be disinfected as much as bleach could do on any other surface. This could be a big hit with germaphobes.

Best of all, the company says it’s completely safe for the environment, so maybe we can just go ahead and coat the whole world with it. Let’s just hope they’re right about that harmlessness, lest we paint everything with some kind of all-consuming grey goo.

Via Telegraph

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