samlittlewood

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by samlittlewood 4mo ago
How about Eric Lengyel's equation editor: https://radicalpie.com
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by samlittlewood 1y ago
Have a look at the BMFA - http://https://bmfa.club . They have a directory of clubs and pointers for learning. You will need insurance and CAA flyer/operator IDs. This can be arranged through club, or directly via
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by samlittlewood 2y ago
So tempted to try this myself in another language - just so I can call in ‘tungsten’.
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by samlittlewood 3y ago
NB: there is a planned 2nd edition without the involvement and against the wishes of the author :( https://x.com/christerericson/status/1050488747010060288?s=4...
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by samlittlewood 3y ago
My goto for this is ‘strace’
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
Cool! I saw this link and your books came to mind as another example of how material like this is vital for seeing (amongst other things) how creative endeavours cope with ‘the other 90 percent’ of projects.
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
Please no! People will start hanging around trying to do clever programmer stuff, and then we will be in all sorts of trouble.
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
Quite a few games (eg: Starfox) in the 90's would use BSP in a slightly different way - purely within each object. The tree would be generated offline (mechanically or by hand), and would often be some sort of branching bytecode (test
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
VUniverse: 16K VU1 demo by Mike Day (2003): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwD7-bs9hss
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
It might be interesting to explore with the students why this would not be quite right for a general 3D view, and how it could be fixed. Conic sections, etc.
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
The best support for random consumer rc protocols is the open source https://www.multi-module.org/ It can be plugged into various TXs that support modules, and many TXs use it as their built in primary TX component.
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
The best GPU vector rendering library I have seen is https://sluglibrary.com/ . The principal use case is fonts, but it appears that the underlying mechanism can be used for any vector graphics.
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
Long time! Maybe we should wait until Dan back over, get the old gang together, and see if we can finally agree on a restaurant.
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
ATAC programmer here - yay! Random fact - the artwork was by Tom Ashton - previously the guitarist for The March Violets, also performed with The Sisters of Mercy, and went on to Clan of Xymox. Also, this was the project I worked on before
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
There were three similarish software renderers around at that time, BRender, Canon Renderware (Adam Billyard), and Rendermorphics RealityLab (Servan Keondjian). There were also some renderers out of the demo scene that were definitely faste
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
It is! Although what I missed out from above is that whilst the API and it's documentation is the deliverable - we would, to the best of ability, try and minimise risk whist developing it. Eg: by doing small performance experiments, dr
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
Something I missed above is that either prior, or concurrently, there will be performance experiments to check that things are staying sane, but these do not contribute to the later software development (except as a reference) and are likel
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
Some more detail on this: The starting point for BRender was a sequence of software rendering experiments that grew from 'never doing it like our hand coded asm real mode x86 renderers ever again'. There were various diversions, e
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by samlittlewood 4y ago
How about an Arduino with a kit of parts?
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Hashmaps Benchmarks – Insert and Erase 100M integers(martin.ankerl.com)
3 points by samlittlewood 5y ago|0 comments
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by samlittlewood 5y ago
Any part of the body that can play the ball - so everything except arms and hands.
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by samlittlewood 6y ago
It is (I think) much better now - it is ghdl as a plugin synthesising to yosys IR. The nightlies from https://github.com/YosysHQ/fpga-toolchain have it all ready to go.
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by samlittlewood 6y ago
It will fit in an 8K easily. There was a version of the j1 (that this was based on) running on an IceStick with a 1K part. https://www.excamera.com/sphinx/article-j1a-swapforth.html
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by samlittlewood 7y ago
Mercedes are in Brackley, UK. Ferrari, Sauber & Hass are the only ones outside UK. (I think Hass may have a UK facility as wwell)
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by samlittlewood 7y ago
Fun fact - I wrote some customised firmware for the Tigon2 AceNIC ancestor I n this tale - (video stream offload). The original MIPS firmware solved the lack of mul/div ... by carefully writing code that never emitted those instruction
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by samlittlewood 8y ago
I was working on 3D rendering and games around this time - pretty much all the PC cards were burdened with terrible CPU->GPU interfaces. The handshaking, setup calculations and register wrangling was such that below a certain triangle si
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by samlittlewood 8y ago
Also Leonardo (Agusta-Westland) - https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/20...
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by samlittlewood 8y ago
Despite being one of my favourite parts, I have yet to have the courage to implement the exercise in the notes: "Remove all system files that haven't been accessed in the last 6 months. Ours works fine!"
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Intel loses a $1B/year customer(semiaccurate.com)
2 points by samlittlewood 8y ago|0 comments
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by samlittlewood 8y ago
When practicing and figuring timing, I find it helps to do it out loud. I go way too fast if I don’t properly vocalise it.

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