{"id":4295,"date":"2016-04-02T09:49:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T15:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2016-04-02T19:52:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T01:52:15","slug":"seven-things-for-april-2-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/seven-things-for-april-2-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Things for April 2, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t made one of these link posts for awhile. This one&#8217;s recent news, the ones to come will have more fun stuff.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forget the dropped mic,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VkOuShXpoKc\">Google&#8217;s VR announcement yesterday<\/a> was exciting, almost as good as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/product\/MK0C2AM\/A\/apple-pencil-for-ipad-pro\">Apple Pencil<\/a> (oh, wait, that one&#8217;s real).<\/li>\n<li>This week I learned that you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HTC\/posts\/10153739024758084\">embed Sketchfab models in Facebook posts<\/a>\u00a0(just post the share link; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/britishmuseum\/posts\/10153978142854723\">another example<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WorldofWarcraft.eu\/posts\/502048669957256\">another<\/a>), and also set them to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/models\/370b66ebb2fa4f4dbb69330d15d88da2?autospin=0.9\">automatically spin<\/a>\u00a0(though not both at once, yet) and <a href=\"https:\/\/help.sketchfab.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/203509907-Share-Embed-Online\">other options<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Pete Shirley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01DN58P8C\">last book<\/a> in his\u00a0trilogy of &#8220;Ray Tracing Minibooks&#8221; is free to purchase until April 5th. Short &amp; sweet &amp; solid. More information on the series and other stuff on <a href=\"http:\/\/in1weekend.blogspot.com\/\">Pete&#8217;s blog<\/a>, and here&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/psgraphics.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/making-in-one-weekend-kindle-book.html\">his how-to publish guide<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; go make one yourself!<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crcpress.com\/GPU-Pro-7-Advanced-Rendering-Techniques\/Engel\/9781498742535\">GPU Pro 7<\/a><\/em>\u00a0was briefly available on Amazon but then sold out, the rest of us have to wait for the slow boat\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/GPU-Pro-Advanced-Rendering-Techniques\/dp\/149874253X?tag=realtimerenderin\">making its way to Amazon<\/a>. Source code repository has been started\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/wolfgangfengel\">here<\/a>\u00a0(also includes <em>GPU Pro 6<\/em> code).<\/li>\n<li>In a similar vein, Eric Lengyel&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/gameenginegems.com\/geg3.php\">Game Engine Gems 3<\/a><\/em> should be out in a few weeks.<\/li>\n<li>The figures for &#8220;Real-Time Rendering, 3rd edition&#8221; are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11998354@N07\/sets\/72157666682037995\">now on Flickr<\/a> for easy viewing. These have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/our-books-figures-now-downloadable-for-fair-use\/\">available for a long while<\/a>, and I tossed them up on to Flickr in good part so that I can find a figure easily, any time I want.<\/li>\n<li>Ray casting gets attention, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.php?comic=2884\">see the original here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 745px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/comics\/comic2-2893.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">sadly, human computers mostly got &#8220;calculate this boring number&#8221; assignments and very rarely got &#8220;if i was james counterstrike and i fired this rpg at this nightorc tell me how many gibs would come out&#8221;: one of history&#8217;s true missed opportunities<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t made one of these link posts for awhile. This one&#8217;s recent news, the ones to come will have more fun stuff. Forget the dropped mic,\u00a0Google&#8217;s VR announcement yesterday was exciting, almost as good as the Apple Pencil (oh, wait, that one&#8217;s real). This week I learned that you can embed Sketchfab models in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,628,629,602,601],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-books","tag-dinosaur-comics","tag-qwantz","tag-sketchfab","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}