OpenGL

GL3D Engine is a game engine created in C++ using OpenGL API. You can create a entire scene in a program such as 3DSMax, save it as a ASE file and port it into the 3D engine. (work in progress)

Using a neural network for the brain, we want a vehicle to drive by itself avoiding obstacles. We accomplish that by choosing the appropriate inputs/outputs and by carefully training the neural net. We feed the network with distances of the closest obstacles around the vehicle to imitate what a human driver would see. The output is the acceleration and steering of the vehicle. We also need to train the network with a set of strategic input-output. The result is impressive, for a couple of neurons! The vehicle drives around avoiding obstacles, but some improvement or modification can be done to make this software work for a specific purpose. (July 2002)

For this project, I am improving the GL3DEngine in order to support Life... This project is done with Dimitri Marinakis. He is doing the artificial life side of the program while I am making the graphic design and 3D graphic adaptation. The executable will be available summer 2004 at www.evolutionz.ca.

I wanted to play around with Cg (C for graphics by Nvidia). So why not setup a small game while I am at it... I had this idea of a boat simulator for a while and never got around doing it. For now, I the waves shapes done in Cg (vertex programming), I have a boat floating and moving depending on the wind (very basic physic). I will now be able to try to make realistic looking water with pixel programming.

This is my master's thesis. Building topological map from range data using neural networks.