Raphael Mun's Website of Stuff

sin(Surfing) Complete!

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:14:18 -0700

Update: sin(Surfing) is on MobyGames and PG Wiki now as well! Now on BigDownload too!
And apparently it invoked the Rule of Cool =) and was on distractionware!

Our osciallator surfing game was released yesterday and so I've put up a video of the gameplay! Check out the video and download below

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sin(Surfing)

Tue, 27 May 2008 05:35:48 -0700

For the TIGSource Procedural Generation Competition due next week, my friend Greg and I have been working on a game where you surf on sine waves in an oscillator. More to come as we get nearer to the deadline but just posting a screenshot!

Spring 2008 Research Posted!

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:28:15 -0700

So as promised earlier during the week, I've put up the most interesting of my research papers for this semester. Go and take a look in the Articles section! My interests really do lie everywhere though, just as a warning. Hopefully some of the research might help someone else in the future as well.
Quick links to the articles:

'Modding' of Video Game Consoles

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:23:31 -0700

My friends and I were interested in video game console security so for Information Warfare in Spring 2008, we decided to research into hacking consoles. It was a fun project and learning about Xbox hacking from Bunnie's book was cool along with the work I'd done before on emulating gameboys. Hopefully you'll find it interesting too.
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Graph Isomorphism

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:19:27 -0700

Another research I did in Spring 2008, this time on the graph isomorphism problem. It is an interesting problem that is yet unknown to be whether in P or NP-Complete so I worked on trying to come up with a polynomial time solution and tried various different approaches that other people seemed to not have tried yet like reducing an n-complete graph into the two input graphs and wasn't completely successful but I came up with a method that seemed to show some success in a subset of graphs using sorting algorithms.
Hopefully this paper will get other people interested and maybe someone might find a polynomial time solution to the GI problem from an idea derived from here.
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