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by Voltage 3mo ago
Here's the mini write up about how they achieved real time raytracing on the CPU 25 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20060213141031/http://www.demosc...
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by Voltage 8mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYPY9-yjclo Squeezing 3 hits (evenly placed) in the time that you'd expect to hit 2 hit.
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by Voltage 8mo ago
https://beats.lasagna.pizza/?name=lo-fi+dust&bpm=95&i0=K0100... Fun! I'd love to be able to add triplets.
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by Voltage 1y ago
Yeah, I'm very familiar with the tech, I've been interested in games dev and web dev for a few decades now. So you could be right, that the models aren't ready to "play on their own" yet. I tried doing a warcraft 1
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by Voltage 1y ago
I will. I'm just trying to evaluate the tools on a medium size task. I'm trying copilot's agent mode with the goal of creating a warcraft 1 clone. Or something resembling it.
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by Voltage 1y ago
* It's not mobile friendly, and you use arrow keys to move around
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by Voltage 1y ago
I'm on the side of AI is a huge productivity booster (by my guess... 10x) But I don't want to make the claim lightly, so I did an experiment. I signed up for copilot pro, and have been using their 'edit' feature. This i
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by Voltage 2y ago
Given my interest in games and demos, I feel the opposite. I'm always in search of the real-time method that looks plausible and can cover huge areas in 3d space. Computational accuracy is not important to me at all.
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by Voltage 2y ago
Yeah the demoscene jumps out as a good candidate to represent "creative 'useless' programs". :) I make a few demos, but my personal favourite was this 4k (windows executable less than 4096 bytes): https://www
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by Voltage 2y ago
https://david.li/fluid/
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by Voltage 2y ago
1) Can build to web mobile 2) Editor for the art team
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by Voltage 3y ago
A big smiley face. :) uniform float time; varying vec2 vUv; // https://iquilezles.org/articles/distfunctions2d/ (Thanks IQ!) float sdRing( in vec2 p, in vec2 n, in float r, float th )
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by Voltage 4y ago
Thanks for the tip. I thought I recognized your handle! You wrote the "A Primer on Bézier Curves" article. Thanks for providing that amazing resource, it's been invaluable during my learning process.
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by Voltage 4y ago
Great article! I didn't know about Rotation Minimizing Frames or the double reflection method. I've run up against the issue of unexpected twisting of splines at work more than once.
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by Voltage 5y ago
As an Australian, is the best approach to encrypt all my storage and communications? Is that even possible when the potential threat is the government?
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by Voltage 5y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree with this assessment of Apple. As a long time business owner and developer, I've had nothing but pain as a developer working with Apple technologies. We've created over 100 cross platform experiences, an
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by Voltage 5y ago
Counter point: Often I am faced with doing it right or doing it within budget for an activation that is designed to live for a few weeks only. I aim for 100% compatibility with different hardware, OS, browser, user experience, client expe
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by Voltage 5y ago
"Satan should chair your meetings" ... She already does.
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by Voltage 5y ago
Congrats on your PPL! I did 10 hours 15 years ago, but stopped when my first baby came along.
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by Voltage 6y ago
I won't pretend to understand the intricacies in your article here, but have you seen this paper / video by Cem Yuksel (University of Utah).... By my layman understanding the curves discussed in the following paper may be of use.
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by Voltage 6y ago
In Example 3, there is a 'pushq %rax' but no subsequent pop command. Error or is the stack being manipulated in another way elsewhere?
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by Voltage 6y ago
Very cool indeed. Seems like a good platform to apply the demoscene trick of "adaptive subsampling" to greatly improve performance at the cost of a little image quality. It takes advantage of the fact that pixels that are close t
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by Voltage 6y ago
As a long time self learner (35 years), I really enjoyed the learning format (and learning focus!). I was surprised how much I enjoyed clicking I learned something, even though I got the yes/no answer "correct". Well done Jul
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by Voltage 6y ago
I use Unreal Engine Blueprint visual scripting a lot, and I like it too. Regarding your point about complex logic and number crunching can be alleviated by using a 'Math Expression' node... which allows math to be written in textu
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by Voltage 6y ago
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=48577 You can actually get 9 sprites on a raster line, but only in a very specific configuration. This absolutely blew my nerd mind when I saw it. The famous English saying.... "Death,
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by Voltage 6y ago
A real life Heisenbug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
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by Voltage 6y ago
I'm with you on both counts. I like fast music without lyrics. Lyrics are distracting when I'm coding.
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by Voltage 7y ago
If you haven't coded to Infected Mushroom, then you haven't lived. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWXSsYJoWY&feature=list_rela...
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by Voltage 7y ago
You could also do I=RND(-TI) Providing a neg number to RND would "reseed" the random number generator. TI was a "system" variable that updates every 60th of a second.
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by Voltage 7y ago
In CBM BASIC RND(1) returned a floating point value between 0.0 (inclusive) and 1.0 (exclusive). 205 + RND(1) would always evaluate to 205 when truncated. 205.5 + RND(1) pseudo randomly selects between 205 and 206

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