Damn CAD module...

Yeah... It's project time again... A lot happened lately that makes me moody in doing my master project, but no matter what, I need to continue on (maybe the progress will be slow, as now).

Anyway, I'm still working on the CAD module for my project. Export my medical model doesn't seems to got problem, although got some slight slowness due to one of the process during export. Anyhow, I'm having problem to import CAD files into my application, or to be exact, I can't get the CAD files to show in my Qt Widget GUI.

Well, I'm using Trolltech's QT (http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt) GUI library to handle my GUI components. To be honest, at first I was quite scare in using Qt (Afterall, it's not quite widely used for windows applications) Anyway, after reading tutorials, documentation (yeah, their documentation is good) and example, I found myself working comfortably with Qt. In fact, my DICOM module was build entirely atop qt framework (but it's not Qt's plugin). On the other hand, since CAD module will be difficult, I had to join Open Design Alliance (http://www.opendesign.com/) in order to use their CAD library. Their modules (DirectDWG) are good, providing some simplicity for applications to read/write CAD files. However, since DirectDWG does not natively support Qt in vectorization process (process of showing CAD files graphically), I'm on my own to write custome modules.

So far, I manage to do some extra work to somehow use OpenGL to draw the CAD objects on QtGLWidget. Well, although the end result seems nice, but it doesn't fully ultilise the DirectDWG vectorization framework. Hmm... I manage to think some new ideas to try out, and if those can't work, then I think I'll had to stick with the useful ones.

Human species going to be split into two?

This morning I read a shocking news. Human species is going to be split into two sub species? A what?

Yeah, according to the research (and prediction), human species will be splitting out in the next 100,000 years. It is said that human beings are getting choosy on their mates, and causing this phenomenon. In short, there'll be two type of human then, one is "upper class", while the other one is "lower class". I guess we don't need to wait so long, since the phenomena is already well seen in the society nowadays.

For more information, read the news from BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stm).

红楼梦

Recently reading some post over at HF forum, I found a very special post about 红楼梦, which is consider to be one of the chinese's literature treasure. Well, a japanese company is using 红楼梦 and it's characters in making a hgame... Yeah, although the game is not sold over at China or Taiwan, the chinese are furious about this. I have neither read the book before, or the game itself, since I'm not really interest anyway.

More information can be found here.
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20060924_1.htm

Additional notable new series

With the new season coming, there's some additional notable anime series that caught up my eye.

009-1
A spy theme anime. Sort of like Charlie's Angel, with pretty spies and high tech gadgets.

Death Note
From the famous Sunday Shounen manga, here comes the anime. I didn't read the manga, but the anime looks promising. The story is about a notebook that was dropped to our world from the death world. Anyone with his name that was written in the notebook will be death (in 40 seconds time I think). Seems interesting though.

Jigoku Shoujo 2
The second season of Jigoku Shoujo. It's almost like Death Note, but just that instead of a notebook, anyone who write their enemies name on the website will be sent to hell...

Megadere

I dun really know the full name of this series (it's sort of long~) but it looks promising. A young boy who just exchanged to a new school, found himself watching a pretty girl in front of a sakura tree (although sakura shouldn't be blossom at that season) But what surprised him the most is that the girl ask to be his boyfriend :p? Hmm...

Pumpkin Scissors
A big war broke out some years ago, and when it ends, it's already near the end of the world. After the big war a special unit was formed to handle problems aroused from the war... The hero here, is one of the members of former anti tank group during wartime, and was invited to join the unit.

Yamanade

Another long title~ (I dun remember the actual name~) At first, I thought this will be another bishoujo love story with handsome guys and girls fallen for them... Haha... The theme is almost like so, except that 4 handsome guys was asked to change a girl (who seems more like a ghost than a girl) to a pretty girl.

Yoakena

Ya~ Another long title~ (So many this time...) A princess from the moon has come to earth and was living together with the main character? Hmm... I'm not sure how far the story might go, but it might be interesting.

Animax

To all anime fans... Animax is finally here! Yeah, this news is sortof old, and I've been watching Animax channel for more than a month now.

It was actually a nice move that Astro take to include Animax into it's package. Now there're more and more people watching anime (including me). However, I found out that the subtitles are sometimes, well, sort of funny. I do not know about the english voice act (since I'm listening to the original japanese voice act), but the malay subtitle is sometimes wrong, and the meanings are misleading... Although it won't effect the storyline much, yet it's sort of annoying sometimes.

Anyway, I found out a few worth noteable anime that's currently airing on Animax:~

The Law Of Ueki

Huh? The power to change trash into trees? What's that?
The story evolve around Ueki, who took part in a competition to get the title 'God'. At first, the series pretty much reminds me of Shaman King, which offers almost the same feeling. However, this is the only anime so far, that I found myself like the support character (Mori Ai, a busybody girl) more than the main hero.

Kyou Kara Maou

A boy was flushed into the toilet? That's what the advertisement said...
I didn't manage to catch the first few episodes... and I believe Animax is airing the last 10+ episodes right now... But it was fun to see the boy that was flushed to another world, and become the king.

Honey & Clover

Basically, I don't really like purely love story anime, but this anime is funny enough to drag me in. I personally like the chibi effect. The story is about the love and life of a group of art students.

Flame of Recca

I've read the manga, and I love the story! It was quite a long time ago, as the artist or Flame of Recca is now drawing MAR, which I believe is almost at it's end now. Anyway, the story evolve around Recca, a ninja from a mysterious family background. I do not know how far the anime will go, so I'll stop here (and let everyone guessing...)

For more information, logon over to Animax (http://www.animax-asia.com/)

Haze!!!

Haze!!! Haze!!! Haze is back at KL again!!!

 

Ah, I really hate the smoke smell, making myself really hard to breathe. And it was pretty much difficult to drive if the condition is getting worst. Check out the photo I shot in the afternoon when the haze is at its worst. Photo was taken using my phone's camera.

 

October ~ Anime Feast!!!

Time pass so fast, and now it's October! And guess what? Another good anime feast!

A quick check over at AniDB and found that there's quite a number of interesting anime going on air in this month. Checked the whole list out and some caught up my interest.

Galaxy Angel II

Being a good old Galaxy Angel fan, I surely can't miss out the new Galaxy Angel II. I believe the original Galaxy Angel I is going away anytime soon, but anyway, GAII does seems to drag me in as well. It's just too bad that the new GAII games are just for PS2 only... sob...

D Gray Man


Yupe, it's finally here. I've been it's manga fan ever since the beginning, and it's a must see if you like demon hunters story.

Negima

Well, to be honest, I didn't know that the second season of Negima Sensei will be airing this October, although I know that the Negima Haru OVA will be out in the corner. But hey, this is a nice story of a 11 years old teacher, with his 31 students, which at the same time was dragged by situation becoming his magical companions. A must see for its fun storyline.

Happiness!

Another anime from a famous AVG game. I've only played the fandisk Happiness Relucks!, and it's character design is pretty much better than most of other AVG games I played. There's 7 main girls, each with different background and storyline with the theme magical school.

Kanon

After finishing the game Kanon by Key not long ago, I found Key's games' storyline is mostly on the same track, sad and touching. The Kanon anime TV series is one of the long awaited titles. Hope that it'll be as good as the game.

There you go, some of the new TV series that caught my eyes. Of course there's other new series that I might be interest of (I need to preview them first). See the whole latest anime series over at AniDB.

Not for good boys... (Sexy Beach 3)

Yes, if you think yourself is a good boy (or good girl) you shouldn't be reading this.


And yes, the long awaited game is finally out. Illusion, one of my favourite Japanese game company finally release the newest game ~ Sexy Beach 3. I've never play the series before, but as with other games by Illusion, this should be a high quality one. The last game by Illusion, Rapelay is pretty much better than any other previous illusion games, and yet the newest Sexy Beach 3 will be using a new engine, so I can't wait to test it out. The only thing that excite me the most will be the characters, Esk especially, will be back in the game (Esk is from a previous Illusion game ~ Dessblood 4)


I just hope that Streamyx's service will be better by the time I'm ready to fetch the game. Nope, this won't be available in Low Yatt or online store (since as with most Japanese games, it's only available in Japan only!)


For more information check out Sexy Beach 3

Sick...

After being sick (headache, migraine) for almost 2 days, I finally decided to see the doctor.

To my surprise, the clinic that I used to go had lost my records. What? I've been going to the same clinic ever since I was a small kid and now all my previous medical records are lost? Hmmm... Yes, it's been quite some time since I go see the doctor (the last time I believe would be the medical checkup for my master intake, which is around a year ago) Haih... what la...

I would wonder if next time I sick and goto the same clinic, will my record still exist there?

Site's Name...

With my new site is coming up, a new name is needed.

Last time, I just *tembak* a name and named it Memorial's World. Now thinking back, it's not quite a good name after all.

Since it got something to do with Life, Photo's, etc, I was thinking of just naming it
"Journey of Life".

But yet... perhaps someone got much better ideas

Memorial's World

Yes! Finally, after some days of hard work, I've finally finish setting up the new site for Memorial's World.
It's been several months since the old gallery sites down, and I'm actually kinda lost the spirits to remake everything again.
Fortunately, I sort of got the spirit back when I found a pretty nice free webhosting, and decide to make a shot.

And whola! Here you go, the new Memorial's World.

Go register yourself at http://pchan.110mb.com

Streamyx...

Yeah, it's Streamyx problem again, making some web pages unaccessible again.
For a whole month I was happy for it's good and smooth performance, but now the problem exists again.

I check a local forum, and seems that there's so many people scolding Streamyx as well.
But I'm blaming it for poor performance in accessing sites (since I'm making my new site now, I can't seems to access it and the dateline is drawing near.) The other guys are blaming Streamyx for slow performance in BT.

Yeah, people are paying for their bandwidth. They expect to use at least 80% of their top speed, including me. But to be honest, BT is something that's really bad to ISP. It draws a lot of unecessary bandwidth, which is bad for normal user. Yeah (again) I'm also a BT user, but I've been switching over to ED2K network (another P2P) where it won't eat so many connection and bandwidth as BT.

But, what I'm really impress by these people is that they still bragging about their BT speed, as they are downloading drama or warez most of the time. Do they really notice that it's actually illegal to download these at first? Although, some torrents contains legal stuff, for example, in a recent game I played Summerdays, it contains some patch that is so huge (>1.5gb) that it's almost impossible to supply direct download. So, the company supply torrents instead.

Rrr... I just hope that Streamyx will fix the problem soon (Streamyx guys, you can keeps on capping P2P, but don't cap my normal surfing speed please...)

Utawarerumono

It's been quite some while since I touch some actual games, and I've finally have some mood for some AVG games again.

 

Or, to be exact, with no mood and idea to continue my project, I took some time off to rest my old brain a bit.

 

Anyway, Utawarerumono is the second AVG games that I played because of anime. Yupe, I play the game because I liked the anime pretty much. The first game that I played because of anime would be Key's Air, one of Key's superd AVG game. Some might ask, AVG? Is that suppose to be a game? For most time, AVG is normally refer as visual novel. Yes, for most time you just keep reading the story text again and again, and perhaps until some part you got some choice of the path you choose. It sounds boring, but what keeps player to go on is the sory itself (at least its the story that keeps me playing).

 

I won't be talking about the story here, if anyone interest, go grab a copy of the anime. The anime TV series is almost in it's end by the time I writing this, so the DVD version shouldn't be far from launch. Anyway, apart of the story, I like it's battle system (I believe it's call SVG, or something like that) Nowadays not much company create this kind of games anymore, except Japanese companies, and ocassionally some Chinese companies. Hmm... the western big games' company pay too much attention to the graphic than the real gameplay...

 

Anyway, I've attach the CGs in my photo album. Unfortunately, some cgs are 18sx so I'll have to exclude them. Both the design in game and anime is almost the same, unlike some where anime and game differs.

Health

Going over to hospital for the second time, makes me rethink a lot of things that never thought of before. Sometimes it does feels like human life is as fragile as glass. It is pretty, but at the same time easy to be broken.

 

I used to think why human beings can live so long. Comparing to other life forms, human beings does indeed live quite long enough. I remember I read a story before about how human beings are greedy, and took other animal's life to live longer... Greedy... Hmm... The nature of human...

 

Anyway, just to remind everyone to take good care of your health. It's the only thing that's hard to get even with money.

Project Status

Hmm... after working so hard for the few previous week, I decided to unroll more about my project.

Yupe, it's nothing much since it's not a new method or new ideas, just a couple of old technologies combine together.

Yupe, it's just a dicom file viewer, packed with simple 3d surface reconstruction, and *perhaps* some CAD operations as well.

By the time of writing, I'm almost 50% into the whole project, with each module's progress as following~
DICOM 100%
3D 50%
CAD 0%

There's still a lot more to deal with, since I've change some basic structure of my application (just to overcome some stupid bug) But so far, most of the important features are covered, and hopefully, I can complete it by end of this year.

Breakthrough!

Hahaha! Finally, I've make a new record!

 

What breakthrough? New medicine? New games? Nolah...

 

Just that my song collections finally reach 20k! Hohoho, think of the number!

 

Of course, 90% of them are anime and japanese songs, ost. It's been quite a while since I actually hear Chinese and English songs.

 

Hmm... I wonder how long will it take me to reach 30k of songs...

Carrefour

Hohohoho... hohohoho...

Yupe, it's here, finally here...

Carrefour is finally here...

 

Today I finally got the time to go there, or to be exact, wait for the shop to open.

You can see the number of people waiting for the shop to open... It's pretty rediculous to think of it...

Hmmm... how to say...

It doesn't seem that everyone comes to shop, but more like *jalan jalan* or window shopping...

Hai...

 

I didn't manage to get any special prizc item of the day, only the grape which my parents were lucky enough to get when they just put it out. I was thinking of getting the car oil which was almost 30% cheaper than standard price. Unfortunately, it's all gone (or to be exact, the items are not yet available) Well, perhaps if I keeps waiting there for a few hours, maybe they'll put them out...

 

To anyone who wish to try out the new Carrefour outlet, one and only advice... GO EARLY. If not, you won't be able to get in.

Frustrated...

Ah... who can help me... Frustrated to see that damn problem in my project...

The dicom module, which was suppose to read dicom images, was acting kinda strangely enough.

 

Since my actual data taken from hospital was slightly large (>10mb per image), I usually use dummy data fetch from the internet for testing and debug purpose. The test data seems fine enough, and I've manage to display the image (including a *sort of* 3D reconstruction object)

 

The odd thing is, of 2 sets of real data that I obtained, 1 of them is unabled to show up perfectly. Checking here and there confirms that the I've extract the image data perfectly from dicom, and I even found someway to improve the performance as well. But just for some reason it just dun wanna display correctly on screen (showing up jagged image)

 

So, I turn to check the display functions. Changing from OpenGL functions back to GDI functions (since it's 2D), I check, try to manipulate the data a bit here and there, but yet the result is the same... Haii... for a week, I've keep seeing the same coding again and again.... all with no vain...

 

Untill...

 

I was playing around the variables around my display functions. I exchanged the image's witdh and image height. Binbong! It display nicely! Omg... A quick check shows that I've mistakenly decode the image's width and height wrongly.... What about the test data that seems ok? It's because for those data, their image width and height is the same (which makes no difference if they're swapped)

 

Dunno what to say... Just wanna hang myself for frustrated because of just 2 variables...

School Days

Well, I don't usually play AVG games too much... except if the game was very famous or the storyline is superb.

Since it was pretty much hard to understand written Japanese (my level is still far from recognizing most of the characters) I usually wait for translation groups to translate the storyline (This goes to KFC's great translation, tq)

 

Anyway, it was not long ago I found out this game School Days, which I believe is quite famous by the time it's out (around a year ago). Actually I've played it's sequence SummerDays, but School Days is much much better than the sequence (odd...)

 

The main guy, Makoto, is trapped between 2 girls' love (actually 4, but 2 of them hide it very well). And so the battle begins between them...

Some of the stories are very very funny, such as Sekai wanna *battle* with Kotonoha with breast  (which apparently fails...) Also to note is that so far, this is the only game that provides so many endings (30++) and it really took a lot of time and patience to find them all. Well, although I manage to see most of the endings, some story are yet unexplored...

 

The endings, ranging from Makoto choosing either one of the girls, to having killed by Sekai, or Sekai killed by Kotonoha (gross) It was pretty good of how the guys from 0verflow (the company that produce School Days) can manage to link all of them together. This is surely a nice game to play (for the storyline, that is).

 

Check out the few girls' banner I made in my album.

 

Too bad is that the image file is in my burned hard drive... Rrrrr.... Reget it...

Sad sad sad

It's been some times since I wrote blog... and now when I plans to write one, my dear pc begins to falls on me... sob sob... My 160 gb hard disk got burn somehow, and it's impossible to use it now. Too shocking is that it was somehow short circuit... no kidding, since the IC is burned to a hole... and I could still remember seeing sparks when I just start my pc... sob sob... RIP...