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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>The dock can be configured by dragging launchers from the GNOME
menu or panel on it. At this point you need to restart the dock to
see the new icons. 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>Jigish Gohil posted a video of the dock in action: <a href="http://youmortals.com/suse/compiz-quinn/vids/akamaru-dock.mpeg">video</a>.</p>
<h1>Latest changes</h1>
@LATEST_CHANGES@
<h1>Download</h1>
<p>Either check out the git repository if you have git on your system:
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$ 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>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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