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by corysama 7y ago
If you like this, you'll also like the "Graphics Study" articles of https://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/
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My career has been making game engines. What I've seen created already by the pre-release users of Dreams is incredible. Just scroll through https://twitter.com/hashtag/MadeInDreams and keep in mind that everyth
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by corysama 7y ago
Sometimes things don't have to be absolutely unprecedented to be revolutionary.
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by corysama 7y ago
Artists and designers are accustomed to Maya-style GUIs. As a counter-example however, I worked at a game studio where we made our own engine. We didn’t have the time to make GUI-based tools. So, instead we focused on text-based configurati
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Less well known is "Rasterization in One Weekend" https://tayfunkayhan.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/rasterization-...
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Nope. The off-by-one extension to The Joke annoys me to no end as obnoxious and unnecessary. But, the church of "At Most Once Delivery" is legit. If it's important, they'll call again. The network is unreliable. It&#x2
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by corysama 7y ago
A world of software built on layers upon layers of abstractions had lead most people to forget just how fast computers can be if you let them. Mobile phones could do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqz5ehun-o0 ten ye
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“even if I knew the change couldn't affect how the dependencies would be built.” That works wonderfully until it bites your face.
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by corysama 7y ago
Tangentially related: IIRC, the demo disc version of one of the PS2 Metal Gear Solid games had a small texture sitting in VRAM that just contained the url http://konami.co.jp/xxx/ If you visited the url, it was just a
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by corysama 7y ago
Lua is 1-based because it was originally designed for use by the Fortran programmers of Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company.
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by corysama 7y ago
And, the fact that an Erlang server is explicitly intended for handling zillions of tiny, independent requests. A request fails? Meh. They'll call again if it's important. What matters now is the next tiny, independent request
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by corysama 7y ago
At work, I use a 32" 4K monitor for code/web searches + a laptop screen for Slack. At home I use a 34" 1440 rez ultrawide + a 1080p to the side for music/YouTube/Slack. I don't have a strong preference. But,
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by corysama 7y ago
Even with GEB he had to add a “This is the central point: *” to a preface in a later printing.
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by corysama 7y ago
"Practical Parallel Rendering" is a great book for anyone. It really is "Parallel Work Distribution Options: The Book". The argument that "Ray tracing is logarithmic in scene complexity while rasterization is linea
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by corysama 7y ago
It's a simple shift of every letter +1.
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by corysama 7y ago
Love the concept. All of the descriptions are cut short and end with... As a user, that leads me to believe I can click on a cut description to see the full description. At least on mobile Safari, clicking on a description does nothing.
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Digesting the Elephant (Rendering the Moana Island Scene)(ingowald.blog)
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Sure. But, in practice it’s never a debate between O(1) vs. a O(large n). It’s always either a heavy O(1) vs. a light O(small n) —-hash vs. linear search. Or, a heavy O(large n) vs. a light O(large n log n) —-hash everything vs. sort everyt
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by corysama 7y ago
The person who ported the game from the Amiga to the SNES made a video about the experience: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tiq0OL8rzso&t=2m More stuff along those lines: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMa
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by corysama 7y ago
Intel has a low-power PAUSE instruction that is literally a ‘rep nop’. I assume Arm has one too.
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by corysama 7y ago
So, what did Microcenter do right to avoid having the same fate as Fry’s?
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by corysama 7y ago
I’m not familiar with Godot, but word on the street is that its 2D pipeline is nicer than Unity3D’s. Unity3D does 2D, but focuses on 3D. I’m using Unreal right now and I expect it is 100x heavier than you are looking for. It’s one of the
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by corysama 7y ago
It’s not just optimized for founders. The investment-employment concentration is a feedback loop that has been running for decades. Investment stays here because there is such an established concentration of talent. VCs talk about wanting
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https://web.archive.org/web/20191217050317/https://discourse...
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by corysama 7y ago
You can manually trigger GC in Lua. I’ve used this to trigger light GC work every frame in some games to buy more consistent GC times (no spikes) at the cost of higher average times.
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Awesome! There’s a quiet little subreddit devotee to this idea https://www.reddit.com/r/HMDprogramming/ They’d really appreciate this.
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by corysama 7y ago
Formatted by http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
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by corysama 7y ago
We need to move on from the Linux Kernel and start using “compile Unreal Engine” as a CPU benchmark. https://gpuopen.com/threadripper-for-gamedev-ue4/
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by corysama 7y ago
Highly recommend the book “Hare Brain Tortoise Mind” for more insight into how this does and doesn’t work well.
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by corysama 7y ago
That’s why TurboTax is 90% fancy loading bars breaking up work that takes milliseconds in total.

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