Alejandro Erickson

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Proset MMO Perpetual Card Game

 

This is Proset.  I don't know who invented it, but I made it into a massively multiplayer perpetual card game.

Instructions (in MathSpeak): Each card is a binary vector.  Select a set of cards by clicking on them.  If the set adds to the "zero" card, press spacebar to get a point.  You can give yourself a name in the bottom right.

Instructions (in English): Select some cards by clicking on them.  If the number of dots in each position is even, press spacebar to get a point.  Another way of seeing it, is imagine that you pile the cards you selected.  Each time two dots pile up, they cancel out.  You can give yourself a name in the bottom right.

Instructions (in Simple English):  Mash keyboard.  Hope for points.

Example of a good set:

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New features and polish are coming!  Please add feature requests in the comments.  I expect to have time to add things in October.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 September 2010 08:59
 

Slidecast presentation: Negative correlation properties for graphs

My Master's thesis was called Negative Correlation Properties for Matroids and I have made the more accessible part into a talk.  I posted a practice run as a slidecast on slideshare.net.  Attached are the slides themselves and when the paper is finished I will link to a preprint.

 

Attachments:
Download this file (presentation-slides.pdf)erickson-negative-correlation[ ]1298 Kb
Last Updated on Sunday, 11 April 2010 18:08
 

An Expository Paper on “A Theorem on Paths in Planar Graphs” by Carsten Thomassen

This was one of my first course projects of notable size which I did at SFU during my undergrad.

Attachments:
Download this file (carsten-thomassen.pdf)carsten-thomassen.pdf[An ExpositoryPaper on “A Theorem on Paths in Planar Graphs” by Carsten Thomassen]665 Kb
 

Tape tracking NXT Lego Mindstorms Robot

The code is in NXC and I used the NXT Camera.  To follow the line, the robot uses a simple PID. The robot uses the sonar to find objects by the road. It uses the light sensor to detect whether it found the right object.

Source code:
http://webhome.csc.uvic.ca/~ate/pid-l...
http://webhome.csc.uvic.ca/~ate/altca...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 06 April 2010 22:49