How Much of a Genius-Level Move Was Using Binary Space Partitioning in Doom?

Re:How Much of a Genius-Level Move Was Using Binary Space Pa... by sitkack on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @01:44AM (#40654928)

One of the nicest things about finding old papers is that often the "unworkable" technique now fits in L1 or L2 cache.

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Re:How Much of a Genius-Level Move Was Using Binary Space Pa... by fxtentacle on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:40AM (#40655567)

Or that RAM is practically endless now. I still remember when I was reading an old pattern recognition paper and they dismissed one simple, elegant solution as "obviously impossible" because they estimated it would need 10485760 KB of RAM. We then bought a server with 128 GB of RAM and shipped their impossible approach in production :) where it's been running nicely for 9 years now.

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Re:How Much of a Genius-Level Move Was Using Binary Space Pa... by stuaxo on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:43AM (#40655927)

Nice, hope you let them know.

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Re:How Much of a Genius-Level Move Was Using Binary Space Pa... by alunchbox on Thursday June 13, 2024 @08:35AM (#40668896)

Is there a name for this phenomenon, where with limited resources humans get more creative? There are still some astonishing technologies that are ongoing today, but much more limited to the early era of computer science.

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Re:How Much of a Genius-Level Move Was Using Binary Space Pa... by sitkack on Saturday June 15, 2024 @02:12PM (#40691533)

Limitivity

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