Beautiful board Thomas! Bravo!!! I have a question: I have noticed that there is confusion as to whether the King can return to the center square (the Throne) during game play. I have seen two conflicting answers for this. Can you give clarity? Thanks!
Ok, the board is great. But your video went way to fast. And the lack of talking made moves very hard to understand. You need to talk and explain what you are doing and why. YOU NEED TO EXPLAIN IT.... You did moves I never saw done before. Yes I am new to the game and want to learn more. Just pushing your cool looking pieces around a cool board is not teaching! TEACH US THE GAME and the game will live forever!!!!!
I have a question if the king(near the throne) can be attacked using 3 pieces( at 1:06) how about if the king is near by the corner it can be attacked by 2 pieces? K-king A-attacker C-corner X-Empty space C X X K A X A X X
I like your board. I think you should consider however playing edge escape rules which are for more strategic. For those interested, I have just release my App version for iPad and iPhone (The Viking Game) which can play many different variants of these Tafl Games, and different rules version. It features the strongest A.I. Player yet developed to play these games. It also features board sizes from 9 x 9, up to the 15 x 15 board found at Coppergate in York.
Looks great! I just put together all sky camera with asi120mc. Your frames look super clean - I cant get rid of severe noise with long exposure. Are your frames calibrated? Thanks and best regards!
Thanks, How long of an exposure are you talking about? I use 5 to 10 seconds in general. Also, most of the nights are below 0C so it helps keeping the noise down. Make sure the gain setting isn't too high.
I go up to 10s max too. Also i use minimum possible gain (I do autoexposure via histogram analysis in python). Maybe it has to do with dark current,, because currently we have temperatures around 26C during night, hot summer. Maybe I will try to substract preshot darks. Which software do you use for capture? Thanks!
I wrote my own since I use a Raspberry Pi: github.com/thomasjacquin/allsky There is a dark subtraction function in the ZWO SDK that you can use. Otherwise, you could do the subtraction after capture using image magick or similar software.
Wow that is awesome! I use the camera via indiserver which does not seem to offer direct access to ZWO SDK since its an interface... what did you write it in, c?
I just made the one you see in the video, but if you're handy, you can make one too by following this instructable www.instructables.com/id/Magnetic-Hnefatafl-Board-Game/
+Thomas Jacquin My word that's utterly marvellous... I did review the process but quite quickly I can see that I don't have the tools nor the skill to repeat the process! It's utterly fantastic though and I'll simply have to remain jealous.
