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> What Carmack had was the ability to read research papers And he had to read actual papers, too. I could see him making copies at the library. No Google or St
by bluedino 4y ago
> What Carmack had was the ability to read research papers
And he had to read actual papers, too. I could see him making copies at the library. No Google or StackOverflow back then.
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoNot quite when Doom came out, but within a few years you could find a surprising amount about graphics on grad students' homepages. I remember learning about PVS, Portal based rendering, and a number of similar things from the original paper author's homepage.