It’s 5\/7\/09, a nice odd sequence, so time for a few odds and ends I’ve collected.<\/p>\n
OK, this is worth a few minutes of your life: the elevated<\/a> demo is awe-inspiring. Terrain generation (be patient when you start it), fly-by’s, and music, all in less than 4096 bytes. By way of comparison, an empty MS Word document is 9834 bytes.\u00a0(thanks to Steve Worley)<\/em><\/p>\n Google has put out a browser-based low-level 3D graphics API called O3D<\/a>. API here<\/a>. Demos here<\/a>. Some initial impressions here<\/a>. It will be interesting to see if they succeed where so many others have failed.<\/p>\n There is a call for participation out for a new book series called “Game Engine Gems<\/a>“, edited by Eric Lengyel. (thanks to Marwan Ansari)<\/em><\/p>\n The main thing I look at on the SIGGRAPH exhibition floor are the book booths. Good books are such a ridiculous bargain: if a book like Geometric Tools<\/strong><\/a> saves a programmer 2 hours of time, it’s paid for itself. One new book that I want to see is Real-Time Cameras<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0by Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, which came out this April. Looking around for more info, I noticed this sad note<\/a>. I never met Mark, but we corresponded a few times. He came up with a clever idea to avoid performing division when doing a point in polygon test; I folded this into the CrossingsMultiplyTest Graphics Gems code here<\/a>, crediting him.<\/p>\n I’ve been looking at GPU capabilities and benchmarking information lately. Some nice resources:<\/p>\n Coincidental world: it turns out there’s a different “Eric Haines” out there that made a well-received 3D graphics game for the iPhone, Realmaze 3D<\/span><\/a>. I’m not sure how it compares to his The Magical Flying Pink Pony Game<\/a>, which looks awesome.\u00a0(thanks to Nikolai Sander)<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I’ve seen similar real-world illusions, but still thought this one<\/a> was pretty great. (Addendum: Morgan McGuire found this even-better video<\/a> of the effect.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s 5\/7\/09, a nice odd sequence, so time for a few odds and ends I’ve collected. OK, this is worth a few minutes of your life: the elevated demo is awe-inspiring. Terrain generation (be patient when you start it), fly-by’s, and music, all in less than 4096 bytes. By way of comparison, an empty MS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[172,16,97,193,175,173,176],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-benchmarking","tag-books","tag-demo-scene","tag-google","tag-illusions","tag-libraries","tag-o3d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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