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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Super-Clean Space Rock Puzzles Astronomers [Space]

Submitted by admin on June 18, 2010 – 2:28 amNo Comment

dafcf6a2920x kbo.jpg Super Clean Space Rock Puzzles Astronomers [Space]More used to seeing rocks covered in grime after billions of years of floating around space, a team of astronomers at MIT are scratching their heads over a surprisingly pristine rock in Kuiper Belt, near Neptune.

After first spotting the rock several years ago, MIT astronomer James Elliot finally found out the true nature of the 89-miles-wide KBO 55636 rock using “stellar occultation,” discovering it was extremely hygienic in comparison to every other object he’d seen out there. Stellar occultation is when the rock obscures the light of a star once it passes in front.

Elliot said that the reflectivity is “very high, almost 90 per cent…that’s consistent with it having a very highly reflective surface like water ice.” Has an alien life-form taken to the rock with a large toothbrush and some bleach? [BBC via Discover via Ebert]

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