{"id":3983,"date":"2015-08-21T05:38:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2015-08-22T07:27:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T13:27:44","slug":"seven-things-for-august-21-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/seven-things-for-august-21-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Things for August 21, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve burnt through most of my SIGGRAPH tidbits. Now to start running through a few worthwhile articles, resources, and sites I&#8217;ve found the past months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2\">Colors and words article<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a\u00a0must-read. Teaser: &#8220;So he raised his daughter while being careful to never describe the color of the sky to her, and then one day asked her what color she saw when she looked up.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external-link\" style=\"line-height: 1.4; font-size: 12.1599998474121px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cgsociety.org\/index.php\/CGSFeatures\/CGSFeatureSpecial\/building_3d_with_ikea\" rel=\"nofollow\">IKEA has been using V-Ray<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.4; font-size: 12.1599998474121px;\"> for much of its catalog for years. Favorite quote: &#8220;But the real turning point for us was when, in 2009, they called us and said, &#8216;You have to stop using CG. I\u2019ve got 200 product images and they\u2019re just terrible. You guys need to practise [sic] more.&#8217; So we looked at all the images\u00a0they said weren\u2019t good enough and the two or three they said were great, and the ones they didn\u2019t like were photography and the good ones were all CG!&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Cambridge, Mass. (which I live next to) as a <a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cesiumjs.org\/cambridge\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">3D map in your browser<\/a>. Background info <a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cesiumjs.org\/2015\/06\/15\/Cambridge-in-3D\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>. WebGL is great.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"TextRun SCX183570054\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCX183570054\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhteumeuleu.com\/apparently-transparent\">Slightly spooky 3D program<\/a>, done in CSS (that&#8217;s right &#8211; no\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"SpellingError SCX183570054\">WebGL<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCX183570054\">\u00a0here). Other fun experiments by the author <a href=\"http:\/\/codepen.io\/ge1doot\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Languages: I hadn&#8217;t heard of a few of these <a href=\"http:\/\/nickdesaulniers.github.io\/blog\/2015\/07\/23\/additional-c-slash-c-plus-plus-tooling\/\">C++ tools<\/a>.\u00a0The Swift language, which I&#8217;ve heard nice things about,\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2015\/06\/09\/apple-swift-open-source-wwdc2015\" rel=\"nofollow\">is going to be open-sourced<\/a> by Apple (surprising, for Apple). Michael Gleicher\u00a0mentioned liking\u00a0the free book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/spencertipping\/js-in-ten-minutes\/blob\/master\/js-in-ten-minutes.pdf\">Javascript in 10 Minutes<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Tools: For home use only,\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/glary-utilities\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Glary Utilities<\/a>\u00a0is a bunch of free utilities &#8211; two minutes to clean off various types of sludge from your PC. <a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voidtools.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Everything<\/a>\u00a0is a simple super-fast file and folder name searcher for Windows. I&#8217;ve added these to the bottom section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/realtimerendering.com\/portal.html\">portal page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ray tracing using armor stands in Minecraft. Things just keep getting weirder.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Camera w\/Perspective in Minecraft\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7E9p4hi252A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve burnt through most of my SIGGRAPH tidbits. Now to start running through a few worthwhile articles, resources, and sites I&#8217;ve found the past months: Colors and words article\u00a0&#8211; a\u00a0must-read. 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