Alex Holkner

Email: aholkner@cs.rmit.edu.au

Teaching

pyglet: A Python package for games and graphics programming, under heavy development.
delta-v: A first-person shooter written for PyWeek in April 2007.
ctypes. ctypes run!: A short presentation presented at OSDC 2006 describing new ways to interface C and Python 2.5.
euclid: A Python module for vector, matrix, quaternion and geometry calculations.
Globally optimised document layout: My Honours research topic. See the final paper and final presentation slides.
SDL-ctypes bindings for Python: Project for Google Summer of Code 2006. See the development website.
Nelly's Rooftop Garden: A physics-based puzzle game written in Python in a week, and winner of PyWeek in April 2006.
User-mode gettimeofday implementation: fasttime library and daemon, completed for Internet2 project and sponsored by Google Summer of Code.
Hardware-based terrain clipmapping: Describes an algorthim implemented as vertex shader to render large terrains in real-time. See the paper and some screenshots.
Acceleration techniques for Busy Beaver Turing Machines: This paper was presented at the 2004 AUSCC and was awarded 3rd best paper. See also the source code and development log.
Alice and the Locked Box: A narrative essay written in 2004 for a Computing Theory subject.

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