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Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not pi (2022) [video]
- cainxinth 2y agoTIL John Carmack accidentally used an incorrect value of pi in Doom's source code, off by a small amount at the 10th decimal place.
- B5C8ECB24DB47D1 2y agoNon-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video] (ccc.de) 607 points by robin_reala 58 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 170 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389267
- cainxinth 2y agoMy mistake
- vrighter 2y agoIf you corrupt the game, the game gets corrupted. That's the gist of the article. This is not non-euclidean geometry. This is just a deliberately inserted bug, that makes the game bug out.