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<h1>Akamaru</h1>
<p>Akamaru is a simple, but fun, physics engine prototype. It's named
after the super awesome ninja dog,
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuzuka_Kiba#Akamaru">Akamaru</a>,
from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto">Naruto</a>
anime and based on the article
<a href="http://www.teknikus.dk/tj/gdc2001.htm">Advanced Character Physics</a>
by Thomas Jakobsen on
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_integration">Verlet integration</a>.</p>
<p>It's not really clear if Akamaru is useful at all, but it's
definitely fun. Screenshots really don't do it justice, it's all
about the animation; here's a couple anyway:</p>
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<a href="akamaru-1.png"><img src="akamaru-1-small.png"></a>
<a href="akamaru-2.png"><img src="akamaru-2-small.png"></a>
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<p>Akamaru now also has a silly dock demo, which looks like this:
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<img src="kiba.png"></a>
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<p>but again, a static screenshot doesn't really demonstrate the fun,
time-sink-y aspect of the dock. I guess you just have to try it out.</p>
<p>I'm developing the dock on Fedora Core, but any other Linux
distribution with a recent GNOME installation should work. The dock
can be configured by dragging launchers from the GNOME menu or panel
on it. To populate the dock with a bunch of GNOME applications, run
the <code>populate-dock.sh</code> script. For now, the only way to
remove icons from the dock is to run something like:</p>
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$ gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/kiba/launchers/2
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<p>Here's a few videos of the dock in action: <a
href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8958142237254601573">google
video</a>, a DIV/X video from <a
href="http://youmortals.com/suse/compiz-quinn/vids/akamaru-dock.mpeg">youmortals.com</a> and a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/rcrmy">Quicktime version</a>. The videos was created using <a href="http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/">xvidcap</a> but I didn't do them myself, so I'm not sure how that tool works.</p>
<h1>Latest changes</h1>
@LATEST_CHANGES@
<h1>Download</h1>
<p>Either check out the git repository if you have git on your system:
<pre>
$ git clone http://people.freedesktop.org/~krh/akamaru.git
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<p>you can then later update to a newer versions using:</p>
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$ git pull
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<p>If you make changes and want to create a patch use <code>git
diff</code>. See <a href="http://git.or.cz/">this page</a> for more
info on git. Alternatively, download the latest version as a tarball:
<a href="http://people.freedesktop.org/~krh/akamaru.tar.gz">akamaru.tar.gz</a>.
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<p>In case you were wondering, yes, this web page is an
<code>index.html</code> file inside a git http
repository. Mind-boggling.</p>
<p class="footer">Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net></p>
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