Last yasers hack, titled PredatorPrey, was a VR game like, flight simulator like, ap.
It suffered, however, in that it was more like a camera moving in VR space than a flight vehicle, in that it moved from side to side and rotated in the VR space.
This years hack is an attempt to implement forward motion, and succeeds, somewhat, in that forward motion is perceived. The hack is quite buggy and does not update well, and requires clicking the aileron motion buttons to get the forward motion, causing other frames to appear in the view window. Only every third frame are part of the forward motion, with the two intermediary frames showing a discontinuity. Sorry, failure diagram.
The HP15C solve output was the result of successful implementation of the 'solve' function of the programmable HP15C emulator that I have used for a hack in 92, 93, 94 and 96.
This is titled Solving Chemical Physics problems with a shareware calculator.
The chemical physics problem was the one I solved for my masters degree, and have solved it several times since then, including this time. The algorithm I used was Bremmermann's optimizer, which uses a Monte Carlo method in conjunction with a LaGrangian interpolation, which I converted from Fortran to C and stuffed into the calculator. After setting the sleep time to zero I fed my research data in and collected output in a format usable by another shareware program called RotatePPC, which displays the results in VR space.
