Hello All! I hope everyone has had a great and prosperous start to their new year! I actually recently got a new job out in Los Angeles, working at a Trader Joe’s. A great company to work for and honestly a great place to shop as well! If you haven’t yet, do yourself a favor and try our Mac N’ Cheese. I promise you that this shameless plug will lead those who listen to momentary bliss. Emphasis on momentary. This new job is relevant because it’s allowed me to upgrade from my old iPhone 6 to a nice and new iPhone Xs 64GB. I know you’ve seen it, but for those who haven’t, this phone flaunts some mightily impressive specs.
The new phone has opened up a world which I knew existed, but quite honestly wasn’t aware of how shockingly developed it has become. Specifically I have been impressed by Bellus3D. This facial scanning tech utilizes the infrared facial scanning components built into the iPhone Xs, and creates a photo realistic “3D Selfie”, to use the description from their site, within a few seconds. Yes, literally a few seconds. The days of slowly turning your head for 15 minutes to get a sub par scan are behind us! I have been really enjoying playing around with this tool, and the built in lighting tools on the app. It’s something I highly recommend to any users who are even slightly intrigued by the idea. Below is a screen cap of the appearance on my mobile app.
First off, how crazy is that. But secondly, look at this next screen cap. Look at how detailed this facial scan really is. Look at my ear. You can clearly see where my ear was pierced back in 3rd grade. If that isn’t detail, then I am not sure what is. AND YES, MY EAR WAS PIERCED FOR A FEW MONTHS IN 3RD GRADE. IT WASN’T A PHASE, MOM.
All in all, extremely impressed with what I saw from this really cool app. Have enjoyed playing with, and will continue to enjoy. It’s for sure something I’ll be pulling out at the next social gathering I attend. Time to blow some minds. Here is the online link to my scan. The online quality is far inferior to that of the app itself, but you can get a hang of the tools offered, and how the app works. I hope you enjoy!
Hello all! I just wanted to post an updated version of my game Simpossible on my site. This is the progress I have made as of 6PM January 23rd 2019! I put a fair amount of effort into commenting on pretty much most operations within to code to make it easily browsed by all, so I hope you all are able to enjoy!
Hello all! So as you can read in some previous posts I have been working on a roman numeral ID method for my Simpossible game. The code is now finished! Previous posts were only inclusive up to the roman numeral for 20 but now it is complete, including numerals all the way up to 100! It took a while to perfect the method, but ALAS it is complete! I had lots of fun with this specific method as it posed some very interesting challenges utilizing the modulus operation. Ill paste the code and some output below! Enjoy!
// Difficulty above 6
else if(difficulty > 6){
// Seeds and initializes random number
srand(time(0));
int randomNum = rand() % 100 + 10;
// Checks for base 50
if((randomNum % 50) == 0){
// Creates string for as many times as 50 goes into the number
for(int rep = 0; rep < (randomNum/50); rep++){
// Adds L to the string
number += "L";
// If the repetition is 1, the string will be cleared and "C" will be put instead
if(rep == 1){
number.clear();
number += "C";
}
}
// Outputs the number and takes in user's answer
cout << number << endl;
int temp;
cin >> temp;
// Correct Answer
if(temp == randomNum){
cout << endl;
}
// Wrong answer
else{
lives --;
cout << incorrectAnswer() << " You have " << lives << " lives left! " << endl << endl;
//returns false
return false;
}
}
// Checks to see if random number is less than 40
else if(randomNum < 40){
// Creates loop to iterate as many times as 10 goes into the random number
for(int rep = 0; rep < randomNum/10; rep++){
// adds an X to the string for each iteration
number += "X";
}
// If the number is 1 unit away from a base (aka 19, 29, 39)
if(((randomNum + 1) % 10) == 0){
number += "IX";
}
// If the number ends in a 5
else if((randomNum % 5) == 0){
number += "V";
}
// If the number ends in 6, 7, or 8
else if(((randomNum % 5) < 4) && ((randomNum % 10) > 5)){
number += "V";
// A loop that iterates for each remaining value when random is divided by 5
for(int rep = 0; rep < (randomNum % 5); rep++){
// Appends an I for each iteration
number += "I";
}
}
// If the number ends in a 4
else if(((randomNum + 1) % 5) == 0){
number += "IV";
}
// Oterwise, just adds Is for each unit random is above a base 10
else {
// Loop that iterates for each value that random number is above 10
for(int rep = 0; rep < (randomNum % 10); rep++){
// Appends an I to the string
number += "I";
}
}
// Outputs numeral and takes user's input
cout << number << endl;
int temp;
cin >> temp;
// Correct Answer
if(temp == randomNum){
cout << endl;
}
// Wrong Answer
else{
lives --;
cout << incorrectAnswer() << " You have " << lives << " lives left! " << endl << endl;
//returns false
return false;
}
}
// If random is greater than 40 & less than 50
else if(randomNum >= 40 && randomNum < 50){
// Creates 49 in numerals if number is 49.. How whack is it that that's 49..!
if(randomNum == 49){
number += "XLIX";
}
// Creates 40 in numerals
else{
number += "XL";
// Appends a V if the number requires
if((randomNum - 40) >= 5){
number += "V";
}
// Adds Is for amount or remainder when divided by 5
for(int rep = 0; rep < (randomNum % 5); rep++){
number += "I";
}
}
// Outputs numeral and recieves users input
cout << number << endl;
int temp;
cin >> temp;
// Correct Answer
if(temp == randomNum){
cout << endl;
}
// Wrong Answer
else {
lives --;
cout << incorrectAnswer() << " You have " << lives << " lives left! " << endl << endl;
//returns false
return false;
}
}
// Checks to see if random number is greater than 50
else if(randomNum > 50 && randomNum < 90){
number += "L";
// Creates loop to iterate as many times as 10 goes into the random number
for(int rep = 0; rep < randomNum/10; rep++){
// adds an X to the string for each iteration
number += "X";
}
// If the number is 1 unti away from a base (aka 19, 29, 39)
if(((randomNum + 1) % 10) == 0){
number += "IX";
}
// If the number ends in a 5
else if((randomNum % 5) == 0){
number += "V";
}
// If the number ends in 6, 7, or 8
else if((randomNum % 5) < 4){
number += "V";
// A loop that iterates for each remaining value when random is divided by 5
for(int rep = 0; rep < (randomNum % 5); rep++){
// Appends an I for each iteration
number += "I";
}
}
// If the number ends in a 4
else if(((randomNum + 1) % 5) == 0){
number += "IV";
}
// Otherwise, just adds Is for each unit random is above a base 10
else {
// Loop that iterates for each value that random number is above 10
for(int rep = 0; rep < (randomNum % 10); rep++){
// Appends an I to the string
number += "I";
}
}
// Outputs numeral and takes user's input
cout << number << endl;
int temp;
cin >> temp;
// Correct Answer
if(temp == randomNum){
cout << endl;
}
// Wrong Answer
else{
lives --;
cout << incorrectAnswer() << " You have " << lives << " lives left! " << endl << endl;
//returns false
return false;
}
}
// If number is between 90 and 100
else{
// Creates 99 in numerals if number is 99.. How whack is it that that's 99..!
if(randomNum == 99){
number += "XCIX";
}
// Creates 90 in numerals
else{
number += "XC";
// Appends a V if the number requires
if((randomNum - 90) >= 5){
number += "V";
}
// Adds Is for amount or remainder when divided by 5
for(int rep = 0; rep < (randomNum % 5); rep++){
number += "I";
}
}
// Outputs numeral and recieves users input
cout << number << endl;
int temp;
cin >> temp;
// Correct Answer
if(temp == randomNum){
cout << endl;
}
// Wrong Answer
else {
lives --;
cout << incorrectAnswer() << " You have " << lives << " lives left! " << endl << endl;
//returns false
return false;
}
}
}
return true;
}
Happy New Year all! I hope everyone had a prosperous year, and plans to have an even better one in 2019! I’ve been hard at work on some code for you guys, but I wanted to share a trip video I made a couple months ago after a dream trip to Japan with my girlfriend. I hope you guys enjoy!
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