Archive for 'random'What if eyes were orthographic?Yesterday at work we had some small discussion, involving something about projecting things behind the near plane onto the near plane (don’t remember what exactly). It went onto “now that you look at something, you see this, and this is because the eyes are perspective, not orthographic, and …”. And then it struck us:
Think about it…. that would be totally weird! Lolshadows!In this age of the interwebs we have Lolcats, we even have LOLCODE… why can’t we have Lolshadows?
This is actually me debugging point light shadows (that happen to use depth encoded into RGBA8 cubemaps).
This is what happens when you use a too wide Poisson disc blurring in screen space and no prevention of “shadow leakage” over different depths. LOL! Internet! “You should see the post-mortems”This comic at Bug Bash is brilliant! My battery is better than yours
We’d better write softwareIt’s better for the world that we write software and not teach dancing… …OTEE crew playing dance minigame in WarioWare: Smooth Moves. The game is awesome - you get lots of fun and look stupid at the same time! Blog movedFor no good reason at all I moved my blog from Blogspot site to Wordpress here on my website. Things may be broken! Also updated the dezign of the website & blog. Colors are for wimps, grayscale for the win! Back from SeattleJust got back from MVP Global Summit 2007 in Seattle. Among usual things, like watching Bill’s keynote, meeting other MVPs, DirectX/XNA guys, getting a grip of some NDA information and such, here are some of the other highlights: Amsterdam airport:
Well, here we know who gets the Linguist of the Year award. Seattle-Tahoma airport, lady at checkin: “what kind of passport is that?“. It also takes 5 times to enter my last name properly, from the printed letters in the passport. Each time trying to persuade me that I did change the ticket date of course! Seattle-Tahoma airport, security: “sir, you have been selected for additional screening“. Do they randomly select people for that quite involved process? Why this “selection” happens immediately after they take a look at my passport? Random quotes:
There’s more than one me out there!I had an interesting story recently, but was waiting for gamedev.net to be back up&running again. So…
One day I got an email like “Hey Aras, where are you we need to finish up our project soon”. Ok, I don’t know who is the sender, know nothing about any project I should be “in”, and the sender’s email address does not match the signature, so I just marked it as spam and forgot about it. A couple of days later Paulius forwards me a message from the same sender, saying that he can’t reach me, the project has a deadline soon, so he started looking through nesnausk.org and write to other people out there. I still thought this is some advanced new form of phishing! I check the website from the signature of the sender. It’s a real website; a bunch of people developing (or trying to develop) a MMO game. In the “technology” section of the website was a link to in.out.side demo: “this is a techdemo of the engine we developed”. WTF!? Contacting the original email sender revealed all the story, which is quite simple in fact. They were looking for a programmer and found someone posting on gamedev.net forums, saying he has done in.out.side demo that won Imagine Cup 2005. He presented himself as me (with a slightly altered name) and agreed to work with them. How is this thing called by the way? Identity theft? Some time passed, in my understanding they haven’t ever seen any code from that guy, and then he just disappeared. What makes it funny though that the guy never received any money from the job he was supposed to do either. I could understand reasoning behind presenting oneself as some other guy, taking the money and then running fast - but presenting oneself as someone else, doing nothing and getting nothing in return? Does not strike me as a viable “business plan”… The moral? Never trust anyone online, especially if they are from Lithuania :) Wii or spirit of evilWatched an old Russian film Viy yesterday. Is it just me, or is the pronunciation strikingly similar to one console that is coming out soon? Wii or Spirit of Evil! |
