Sunday, January 31, 2010

Minesweeper Solved

Back in 2006, summer, Lebanon faced a nationwide attack on infrastructure. Life as we knew it was crippled.
We were mostly away from direct fire, but still went away from our house to our aunt's. We played minesweeper to keep entertained. The game became competitive until my finger started exhibiting pain due to the extremely fast clicking. An algorithm was needed.
Over the course of the week, I continuously thought about solving the game automatically and be crowned king of the hill.

The algorithm was a success: it worked and it was such a pleasant experience to create.
I've uploaded a presentation and the project source files up so that you can check it out.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Introduction and Kick Start

Hello there. Thanks for dropping by my new conceived blog.
I am known in the forums as arithma, my real name is Mohammad Skafi.

I have a Mechatronics engineering BSc degree under my belt. After being an employee for a little bit more than a year I decided it was not worth it, and went on to found xentrics.net.

My first official product is Jizi Interiors. Things of note about this website is the optimized swf file size (76KB at time of writing). There are many loading issues and file management details pertaining to Actionscript and Flash that we will be sure to share.