Matthieu Laban - White-Clouds.Org

V-Tail Support (sort of)

Matthieu Laban — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:32:00 GMT

For the longest time, simulating the rudder in Infinite Runway has been a big problem. I remember in the early days of the simulator how much I struggled with matrix transformations to compute the right forces... During turns, the airplane would slip o...Click here for the rest of the story

Update on Infinite Runway

Matthieu Laban — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:05:00 GMT

I'm in the middle of a move to a new apartment, so I haven't had time to code much on the sim, however, some progress has been made since last update. I've mostly been working on the database for the world data. What I'm trying to achieve is to simp...Click here for the rest of the story

Infinite Runway Status

Matthieu Laban — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:09:00 GMT

I haven't written about Infinite Runway in a while, but development still has been progressing... Here's a quick status update: - Flight Dynamics Lots of progress here, I finished the separation of the flight model with the flight simulator e...Click here for the rest of the story

New Flight Model

Matthieu Laban — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:27:00 GMT

For the past couple of months, I've been working on a new flight model for Infinite Runway. It's much more complex than the previous implementation. The old system was very basic, a wing was represented as a single point of lift/drag which was compu...Click here for the rest of the story

Some thoughts about X-Plane

Matthieu Laban — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:41:00 GMT

I've had some more time to play with X-Plane in the past week... And I have to say, I'm mostly disagree about what X-Plane fans are saying about it... Here are some things that come to mind about X-Plane... Flight ...Click here for the rest of the story

What's new with Infinite Runway?

Matthieu Laban — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:46:00 GMT

It's been a while... I haven't posted about Infinite Runway for about a year... After some side work on other things, I realized that I continually wanted to go back to the coding on Infinite Runway. It's not making any money... but it's what I like...Click here for the rest of the story

Youlii

Matthieu Laban — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:49:00 GMT

For the past few months, I've been working with a friend on a website offering simple online multiplayer games. We've got 3 games so far, but many more are coming soon! Action happens here: http://www.youlii.com The entire site ...Click here for the rest of the story

Flight Simulator Grounded :-/

Matthieu Laban — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:48:00 GMT

This is a really sad day... http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21981 It appears that the entire team of developers at ACES in charge of Flight Simulator has been let go... What are we going to do now? Use X-Plane? No t...Click here for the rest of the story

Acer Aspire One - Replacing Wireless Card

Matthieu Laban — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:56:00 GMT

I've been using my Aspire One for a few months now, and I'm still happy with it... I've always had one issue with it. Wireless kept dropping, the connection would sometimes get slow, or worse, the Atheros card would just simply disappear from the Device ...Click here for the rest of the story

Aircraft Pictures Compilation

Matthieu Laban — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:31:00 GMT

This summer, I've spent a fair amount of time sitting on a bench in Palo Alto Airport, just looking at airplanes take off and landing... I took a ton of pictures... most of which would probably be denied from entering the Airliners.net database... ...Click here for the rest of the story

Obama Won...

Matthieu Laban — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:28:00 GMT

... and I'm happy! Thank you America! ...Click here for the rest of the story

3D Graphics With Silverlight

Matthieu Laban — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:50:00 GMT

I've been playing with Silverlight lately, and there was one thing I wanted to try for a long time... Displaying my flight tracks in real time 3D with Silverlight. There is a pretty advanced 3D engine on Codeplex called Kit3D that does ...Click here for the rest of the story

Comcast's Shady Business Practices...

Matthieu Laban — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:40:00 GMT

So i've been in my apartment for 6 months now... And I was expecting Comcast to end their "6 months promo" price for my internet access... They didn't forget to update the rate... However, they did forget to tell me when I subscribed how much I'd be payi...Click here for the rest of the story

So, am I still happy with the Aspire One?

Matthieu Laban — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:16:00 GMT

Hell yeah! It's a great machine! The fan problem I had at the begining is now gone. I found a little utility on AspireOneUser.com that slows the fan a bit. It's still running but barely audible, which is exactly what I wanted :) The only remain...Click here for the rest of the story

Happiness is Delano

Matthieu Laban — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT

At the end of last August, I drove all the way to Delano California to attend the "Happiness is Delano" Aerobatic competition. A bunch of people from all over CA came over with their airplanes to compete. My friend Bruno was there try to get to the ...Click here for the rest of the story

Live Twitter Updates with Silverlight!

Matthieu Laban — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:32:00 GMT

I've had this idea in my mind for the past few months. Showing my most recent tweets on this website in a small silverlight widget. ( More info about Twitter here ) This is now done :-) (check on the left column) I ran into some issues coding t...Click here for the rest of the story

Ultra Mobile PC: EeePC 900 or Acer Aspire One?

Matthieu Laban — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:33:00 GMT

... the Aspire One, no question about it! Let me explain why... The ultra mobile PC market has widely changed in a few months since Asus came out with the Eee PC. Other manufacturers have come up with their own versions. Last week, I stumbled upon t...Click here for the rest of the story

Oakland, Tracy and Palo Alto

Matthieu Laban — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:16:00 GMT

I accidentally smashed my camera when I was in Quebec last week... so I had to get a replacement. I chose a Panasonic DMC-TZ5. It's a pretty good camera, so far, the only negative points I have against it are the lack of an optical view finder which makes...Click here for the rest of the story

Propellers in Infinite Runway

Matthieu Laban — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:10:00 GMT

I'm glad to say that aircrafts in Infinite Runway are finally being propelled by actual computation of lift coming from rotating airfoils :) In my last post, I wrote that I needed the following to properly simulate the propeller: propeller...Click here for the rest of the story

Propeller Simulation

Matthieu Laban — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:17:00 GMT

The more I read about it, the more I feel like propulsion theory, although very similar to regular airfoil theory, is much more complicated... There are lots of variables that come into play when trying to simulate this. I'm currently trying to gather so...Click here for the rest of the story