thraveboy

Boring for Hacker News.. when Hacker News top stories are the same as Google News, it lessens the impact. (I know it's an algorithm)

I really don't believe the high percentage rates and how they are computed.

Having lots of percentages over 100% is just bad data science and analysis.

Look at the state views.

Even though it makes it sound more prestigious, Carl Sagan never was awarded a Nobel Prize.

In the end, you only have yourself. Go to an open field and realize that no one is holding you back. :)

Here's a better direct link to osdev.org info: http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page

We should totally put a path tracer in it, that would be fun too. :)

Totally! I'll shoot you an email and if you need help hacking on anything, let me know, I just live a life of fun hacking now. :)

Yep. For the radiosity based global illumination things, it's the most common way of framing and solving the way light energy is passed through an environment. And most of the work is in minimizing the computationally expensive visibility operations (shadows, etc) by determining how much light energy is going to pass between two surfaces (based on distance, size, orientation, visibility, etc), and then computing using the fewest rays and the right level of resolution of the energy to efficiently utilize compute resources. Basically... :)

Here's my original Stanford page with info on it, I'm surprised it's still up. lol :)

http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/~rsg/siggraph94/index.html

Looking for a pdf now too. Here's what I've found so far:

https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/texture/texture.nocolor...

It was so fun, when I first went to grad school Pat, Peter, and I figured out the fundamentals how to separate the lighting from the surface reflection using multi-resolution textures maps. And it was so fun sitting in the Princeton Graphics lab hacking up the Renderman shaders to implement it for the first time. Great memories, and what amazing insights and tools built by so many others to make what we have now possible. :)

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=192171

Sweet! I can't wait for the Android and iPhone releases of this.. :)

Totally agree.

benefit

The irony that HM is simply repurposing of HN content is not lost on many.