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My name is Clodéric Mars, I'm a sofware engineer specialized in AI for simulations and games. I previously worked at Golaem and joined Masa in 2012. This is a place where I irregularely post vaguely interesting stuffs about my professional interests.
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AI Summit 2013
This long overdue post is about my takeaway from this year’s GDC AI Summit, I tried to organize that in rough categories.Spatially located dataOne key part of an AI system is to have meaningful data as input to the decision-making. In most of the games genres, it is very important to have spatially located data and to be able to extract from these meaningful data.Several talks focused on this area: “AI Postmortems - Warframe” by [...]
LIFE with Recast/Detour
I sent this mail earlier today to the Recast/Detour mailing list. Hello, I’m working on LIFE, the new AI middleware MASA is showcasing at the GDC next week. I am sending you this email to announce that LIFE uses Recast/Detour as its built-in navigation solution. I’d also like to explain how and what we will contribute to this great project. We are committed to open source our development on Recast/Detour for the benefit of the [...]
Boudica's last stand
A few weeks ago, I received a mail from a reader of this blog: an ancient history enthusiast. I use novel techniques to try and identify the UK battlefield where the Romans defeated Boudica in 60/61AD. Boudica isn’t just a Civilization IV leader, she is a British ancient heroin who led an uprising against the Romans conqueror and was severely defeated at a not yet identified location (interseting how this story is closed from French’s [...]
Yet another migration
The first post of 2012 (in May… shame on me) is about yet another migration of the site!As you may know Posterous, that I previously used, was bought by twitter. It is pretty sure they will close or at least let die their current service. So I moved everything to GitHub Pages! You can browse and even fork this site’s repository. The setup was a little longer than expected (basically you have to write html [...]
Formation Sketching
I have updated the Group navigation state-of-the-art report with an interesting article I read a few weeks ago: * Qin Gu and Zhigang Deng. Formation Sketching: An Approach to Stylize Groups in Crowd Simulation. In Graphics Interface. University Houston, Delmar Thomson Learning, 2011I’ve also set up a static page for the report. [...]