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The Cinematography of "The Incredibles"
Here is Part 1 of 3 on a case study of the shot compositions from Pixar's film "The Incredibles, I'll go over how the relationships of all ...
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A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack
A long time ago, when I was a college undergrad, I spent some time working on computer video games. This was in the 8-bit PC era, when the gaming hardware was almost impossibly slow by today’s standards.
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Wil Shipley: My “Doom” 20th Anniversary Stories
The way I got into the software business (besides learning to code) was to use every piece of software I could find and send the developers ...
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Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly
Just a little something I thought was worth pointing out. @notch , the creator of Minecraft, has been posting updates on his latest toy proj...
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Winning at Candy Crush
I find Flash games on Facebook great fun. Not playing them, of course, that’s boring. As you may remember from my previous post, “ winning at Puzzle Adventures ”, I like to take a look into their guts and figure out how they work, and whether or not I can get insane scores with no effort.
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How to write a 48-hour game in just 2 years
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How I made an Android game from scratch in 23 days
Drone Invaders - a space shootem up with retro graphics and modern gameplay
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How to escape a monster (using calculus)
You are sitting in a rowing boat in the middle of a circular lake. How do you escape from a smart monster on the shore who can run four times faster than you can row?
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Go vs C++: Ray tracer (part 3)
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Computational Synesthesia: Audio Analysis with Image Processing Algorithms
The blog post was written in an IPython Notebook. You can download the notebook here .
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Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer
I recently came across Paul Heckbert's business card raytracer. For those that have never heard of it: It is a very famous challenge in the Computer Graphics field that started on May 4th, 1984 via a post on comp.graphics by Paul Heckbert ( More about this in his article " A Minimal Ray Tracer " from the book Graphics…
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World
The animated ASCII globe surrounded by its own source code. An quine in 1024 bytes of JavaScript.
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How I Make A Living Using GameMaker
Insights at the intersection of game development, programming and modern tech.
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What Programming a Game in 48 Hours Taught Me About Programming Games
I participated in Ludum Dare 27 this weekend, programming a complete game, Spacetime Adventure, in 48 hours. I make games for a living but I’d never done that before. It was fun.
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Rotating Images
How to rotate an image, and a need trick to rotate a bitmap an arbitrary amount in a simple paint package.
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The Evolution of Direct3D
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Vi Hart on Stravinsky's Atonal Compositions [video]
What experimental composers have to do with copyright wrongs and the neuroscience of language.
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Let's Play Ancient Greek Geometry
Today I’m releasing Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Geometry . It’s a Compass and Straightedge tool/puzzle game written in JavaScript. I’ve always thought Geometric Construction felt like a puzzle, so to me this pairing was quite natural. Compass and Straight edge is a technique for constructing shapes out of circles…
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Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS
One of my favorite movies as a kid was Tron , the early 1980's film about a computer programmer who gets “digitized” and sucked into a computer world inhabited by personified computer programs. In the film, the protagonist joins a group of resistant programs in an effort to take down the oppressive Master Control…
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OpenGL – OS X Mountain Lion vs. Mavericks
During Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote, the graphically-inclined may have noted "OpenGL 4" among OS X Mavericks' feature list. I was curious and decided to