TinkersW

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by TinkersW 2y ago
If they are using MC, does that mean they are actually generating SDFs? If so it would be nice if you could output the SDF rather than the triangle mesh.
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by TinkersW 2y ago
Everything you asked for has existed for like decades..
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by TinkersW 2y ago
That is the standard approach, but if you try to tonemap using it, you will quickly realize it really really sucks.
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by TinkersW 2y ago
Even if you have a standard specular & diffuse model, indirect lighting is really important and you can't really just drop that into a shader. If you want a standard I've go with OpenPBR, it is well documented and looks nice.
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by TinkersW 2y ago
I went to a public school and regarded it as prison, no bullying went on, but the system is not designed to educate, it is designed to instill obedience, and the pace of learning is dictated primarily by mediocrity of the teachers(I had a r
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by TinkersW 2y ago
Both government and private can be efficient or inefficient, it depends on the motive, I don't know why people insist on pretending one is always superior. In the case of SpaceX they are more efficient because NASA is intentionally ham
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by TinkersW 2y ago
It is also similiar to "On The Origin of Species" a far more famous book that I'm sure everyone has heard of.
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by TinkersW 2y ago
Because they are helping Trump, their behavior is often so insane it drives people into his camp who might have otherwise been somewhere in the middle. Look at the surveys done of swing voters in the last election, they biggest single item
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by TinkersW 2y ago
Is this deepthroating because they are worried about his tariffs raising GPU prices in the US?
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by TinkersW 2y ago
C++ has all of these except forward referencing declarations(though Importing Declarations requires modules which nobody uses yet). I'm not sure why forward reference declarations is needed nowadays(or if it really is from a language s
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by TinkersW 2y ago
How do you switch it to American? (ie feet/miles)
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by TinkersW 2y ago
It looks very nice in the examples, but I tested it by dropping a Chrono Trigger character art in, and it generated some 2D planes instead of a 3D mesh..so ugh.. what?
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by TinkersW 2y ago
UHC does not provide care, they are a leach on society, as all health insurances companies are.
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by TinkersW 2y ago
I've lived in both and prefer the suburb. Inner city has all sorts of issues, from very little space, smokers puffing away as you try to enter/exit buildings, endless harmful noise & smells. Actually I prefer rural ove
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by TinkersW 2y ago
I think it does look much nicer than the other examples of this nature that I've seen. I would guess they are pre-generating the world from the image, not generating it on the go as it runs reasonably well, but doesn't this really
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by TinkersW 2y ago
It looks interesting and I'm considering switching to Slang, currently using HLSL but I've never really liked it or GLSL, they are both overly simple.
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by TinkersW 2y ago
Ya this article is terrible. You can use RAII with arena allocation, and you can also defer RAII cleanup to avoid stalls. Manually calling cleanup functions also has the exact same potential for stalls. Also perf wise, the only time huge de
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by TinkersW 2y ago
You can simplify the 2x sqrts as sqrt(a*b), overall less operations so perhaps more accurate. It would also let you get rid of the funky lane swivels. As this would only use 1 lane, perhaps if you have multiple of these to normalize, you co
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by TinkersW 2y ago
For concurrency issues you don't want a debugger or printing as both are terrible for this, you want a library designed to specifically detect these issues, I have a custom one but many other people use valgrind etc.
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by TinkersW 2y ago
All that tells me is that you have never used a good debugger. There is no "setup" and stepping through lines is trivial.
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by TinkersW 2y ago
It is well presented, but I think the part attacking TAA will lead to confusion, as SDF AA is in no way an alternative to TAA. TAA covers all types of aliasing, while this only covers edge aliasing. Many modern games use monte carlo based a
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by TinkersW 2y ago
This is the 2nd time China did this in that Baltic isn't it? Both times look intentional.. maybe don't allow Chinese ships in the Baltic?
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by TinkersW 2y ago
I wonder if google really never had this turned on before? Like this has been available in the C++ standard library for decades(normally as a debug feature to catch errors in development, but some implementations such as MS support it in re
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by TinkersW 2y ago
Living standards have improved, but at vast cost the environment, and we show no signs of addressing this. The amount of energy we spend on irrelevant stuff like the stock market & AI should instead be directed toward dealing with clima
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by TinkersW 2y ago
Japan has been exporting its culture for decades with games(Mario/Zelda/Final Fantasy..the list goes on). And nowadays anime is also very popular. China has nothing really, can't think of a single interesting Chinese game&#x2
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by TinkersW 2y ago
hardly unique..Colorado snow is also mostly powder
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by TinkersW 2y ago
Not a Trump voter so can't say exactly why they vote for him, but my guess would be the rather toxic race/sexism obsessed narrative the far left pushes. Every article nowadays rambles on about it, ever book/tv show also, it i
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by TinkersW 2y ago
Latency of communication with GPU is too large, and GPUs suck at things CPUs are good at.
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by TinkersW 2y ago
That is todays numbers.. obviously the article is taking a historical view.. not that I necessary agree with it.
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by TinkersW 2y ago
It looks fine, but I have yet to see any examples scaled up to an outdoor scene where you can see for miles(I don't even know if this is possible?). Also the article this post links says this is diffuse only.. kinda not so impressive a

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