Jonathan Dickinson

Johannesburg, South Africa

jonathan.dickinsons.co.za/blog

Age: 26

Senior software engineer that works at K2 (SourceCode).

Enjoys eking out as much performance as possible in a system; with the least amount of wasteage in terms of CPU, memory and disk.

Hobbyist game developer.

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Ideas for 2D Water Simulation

2d-physics simulations water asked Oct 10 '11 at 17:53

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What are some current techniques for rendering deformable landscapes?

terrain-rendering terrain asked Oct 5 '11 at 14:28

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7 votes

If Statement True Block Executed When Condition is False

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5 votes

One Step-Ahead A-Star

path-finding asked Jun 13 '11 at 11:49

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5 votes

C# fastest union of 2 sets of sorted values

c# .net union sortedset asked Aug 23 '11 at 17:32

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5 votes

CreateProcessAsUser Creating Window in Active Session

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