Blog/Exams-are-strange-things

Exam is coming soon (this friday), and the strange thing (i'm inclined to call it funny, but then again, it is exam) is that you always think that you won't have anything to say for the presentaion. And it always turns out when you start working on it, that there are plenty of stuff to talk about: additions/improvements, further explanations, etc.

After having a nice time in Copenhagen this past weekend (although spending 5 hours in a train each way wears you out), i'm eager to get the exam over-with. Not that it's that horrible (well comparing it to non-group exams), but because you always find plenty of other fun things to do instead. A mystery of the human mind i guess.

The pathfinder library is especially interesting at the moment, i found a really bad bug the other day that led to much better results than before. Still lots of things to work out though, such as whether it is a good idea to use a map for keeping track of the g(x,y) and h(x,y) values rather than just go graph nodes all the way. Amit J. Patel (http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html) has pointed out that using a map to represent this has the down-side that you need one (or maybe two) maps the same size as the map you are searching to do it. I might add that using a graph approacing for representing the coordinates might also make the code applicable to the quadtree as well. Just a bit more template mayhem for the code to endure.

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