Why the world needs non-experts

Marlow on 2006/09/09 15:34 of Sleight of Python

Yesterday lunchtime an old, non-programmer friend walked by my desk. I mentioned PyWeek and told him about a specific problem that I was having with collision detection, due to the way that I've been drawing the paths, and how I was writing a fancy algorithm to get around it.

"Call me simplistic," he said, "but why don't you just read the pixels from the screen at the points where you've detected the collisions?"

Check between 4-8 pixels, or write a fancy algorithm which may not work? Hmmm... time is short! I feel a stencil-buffer coming on.