Today we were tasked with presenting our research topic to our lecturers and classmates. As you can see from the slides above, we were given only a short period of time, 3 minutes at most, to cover background information, our own solutions, and the significance of our work. Continue reading »
I’ve made some progress in the past week with my honours projects, creating small experimental programs to familiarise myself with multi-threading in .NET. Thankfully so far I’ve found the syntax clear and consistent with the terms normally involved in parallel processing. Although this doesn’t simplify the task of designing the program it certainly avoids the implementation overhead which has been inherent in my attempts with multi-threading in C++.
The programs I’ve been working on are in C#, though I’d be interested to try other .NET languages. In each, I processed thousands of entities allowing each to rotate and bounce around a window. Different methods of splitting up and dealing with this work in parallel were experimented with. Continue reading »
After writing my proposal first draft I received feedback from Steven, a member of my class. Although I hope to address the issues he brought up in the next version of my proposal, I wanted to answer them here for the time being.
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Having spoken to Henry Fortuna yesterday about my new project topic, I’m feeling more confident about its suitability. It was established both that the particular problem I attempt to tackle will have a huge attempt on the project overall, and also that a simulation of characters moving in a virtual world should be a feasible situation.
Although I haven’t had as much time as I would have hoped for to construct another research question and I realise my ideas still require a lot of refinement, I have a (very) rough first draft of my proposal below. Hopefully I can re-write and revise this based on any feedback I receive. It’s all text from here on in because this is serious business – photo thanks to Daniel Conway..
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As you may have gathered from my previous post I’ve been having some doubts and concerns about my honours project topic for some time, and have continued to consider possible alternatives throughout the start of term.
Having completed further research, I strongly feel that one of these alternative topics in particular would be better suited both as an honours project and as something I personally would like to investigate. Although this decision is not yet final and requires much further refinement, I hope that completing the original worksheets and (potentially) receiving some feedback will aid me in reaching a hasty yet prudent decision.