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Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips(youtube.com)
1 points by franzb 9y ago|0 comments
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1950's tax preparation: plugboard programming with an IBM 403 Accounting Machine(righto.com)
53 points by franzb 9y ago|6 comments
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Trying Out Rust for Graphics Programming(gist.github.com)
4 points by franzb 10y ago|0 comments
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by franzb 10y ago
It's been on my (successive) hard drives for the past 22 years :)
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by franzb 10y ago
Indeed, that's exactly what I got.
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by franzb 10y ago
Here is the game in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQjT2qE4u98 And a partial file listing of the source code I got: http://imgur.com/F6XVLP0
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by franzb 10y ago
Done: https://twitter.com/franzbeaune/status/833922527999127552
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by franzb 10y ago
Just got in touch with Archive.org (by mail)!
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by franzb 10y ago
The leak appears to be mentioned here: http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/1997-fifa-partial-source... But all the links are dead.
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by franzb 10y ago
Imagine my surprise when I came across the full C++ source code of UEFA Soccer 96 for DOS on a demos CD that shipped with a magazine! I never saw that leak mentioned anywhere. I think I still have the code. Should I share it, and how?
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Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed(medium.com)
3 points by franzb 10y ago|0 comments
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by franzb 10y ago
A very interesting question! It's not a research paper, but for learning purposes there's nothing better than the Physically-Based Rendering (PBRT) book by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys and Wenzel Jakob, already mentioned by others i
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by franzb 10y ago
Physically-based rendering means that we're essentially applying the law of physics to the problem of representing materials and bouncing light on them. The renderer deals with well defined physical quantities such as meters, watts, et
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by franzb 10y ago
Thank you! As generic_user said, feel free to just download a release for your platform and a few test scenes, start appleseed.studio, load a scene and hit F6 to start interactive rendering. The Getting Started page contains detailed instru
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by franzb 10y ago
We call appleseed "modern" because, since its inception in 2009, it implements the modern paradigm of rendering: unbiased, physically-based, programmable, as few knob and hacks as possible. The quintessential example of a "no
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by franzb 10y ago
The classroom is lit by a physical sun+sky combination. A limitation of our current implementation of physical sun is that the sun is a directional light instead of being a far away disk of finite radius. This is why we don't have soft
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by franzb 10y ago
One limitation of appleseed today is that our physically-based sun model is a purely directional light, not a far away disk with a finite radius. This explains the hard shadows on some of the scenes.
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by franzb 10y ago
To some extent, I agree with you! appleseed is surely no exception. We're just trying our best to make it suck as little as possible :)
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by franzb 10y ago
It's an honor to even be compared to Tensorflow :) Keep in mind that we all have day jobs and that appleseed is developed by a handful of volunteers in their free time. That probably explains, at least partly, why our progress is &quot
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by franzb 10y ago
Thanks! Our target is about one release roughly every three months. We've somehow managed to maintain this cadence for nearly 8 years now.
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by franzb 10y ago
Indeed, there is no shortage of open source ray tracers and renderers. That said, there are very few open source renderers with full OSL ( https://github.com/imageworks/OpenShadingLanguage ) support and the required feat
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by franzb 10y ago
Thanks! You're right, Maxwell and appleseed have a lot in common: both are (or can be) unbiased spectral renderers with animation rendering capabilities. They also both have a "studio" GUI application for scene composition, i
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by franzb 10y ago
Thank you for the lovely words! We certainly do put a lot of care and efforts into producing a high quality software product that is not only open source with a liberal license (MIT) but which is also developed in the open (we're happy
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by franzb 10y ago
( as a homage, sorry)
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by franzb 10y ago
Think of it has a homage! :)
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by franzb 10y ago
Hello, founder of appleseed here! Being the top story on Hacker News tonight was completely unexpected, but it's a good surprise and definitely appreciated publicity! appleseed has been in active development since june of 2009. It pred
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PVS-Studio project – 10 years of failures and successes(viva64.com)
2 points by franzb 10y ago|0 comments
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Broke Hackers' Model Railway(hackaday.io)
3 points by franzb 10y ago|0 comments
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How to use PVS-Studio for free(viva64.com)
3 points by franzb 10y ago|0 comments
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by franzb 10y ago
appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects. It's been used on TV documentaries and commercials, and it's been integrated in variou

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