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gmriggs | 10 years ago | on: Sandra Bland arrest video has continuity problems, anomalies

https://youtu.be/qEGFaOeUm2A?t=31

gmriggs | 10 years ago | on: Quake in your browser

Awesome

i can hear the zenimax lawyers stampeding now though...

gmriggs | 12 years ago | on: Dragdis – Drag and drop anything anywhere

I tried dragging the text to the center of the buttons

gmriggs | 12 years ago | on: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

woosh

gmriggs | 12 years ago | on: The Central Limit Theorem Visualized with D3

Also known as Plinko Theorem

gmriggs | 13 years ago | on: Introducing the Predictive Interface

also known as the Ribbon in Microsoft land.

gmriggs | 13 years ago | on: Gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 brings direct programming, indirect lighting

If you want to know all of the math and functions involved in pushing individual pixels to the screen and building something along the lines of a Quake 2-level engine in software, this book is a pretty good introduction to it all:

http://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Programming-Gurus-Advanced-Grap...

Note that this is the type of programming now implemented in hardware GPUs, and in libraries such as DirectX and OpenGL. If you were to write a modern game, you would do it on top of one of these hardware-accelerated libraries, and you wouldn't be writing this type of code in software anymore. But if you really want to learn how to do these things from the "ground up", this book can help you build that foundation