My guy here did what Sega Saturn's VDP1 did. Instead of triangle based rendering, which most did, Saturn used quads, or "distorted sprites" to do 3D. Trivia: Nvidia's first accelerator NV1 was based on what VDP1 did and also used quads and failed on the market (mostly due to it).
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Keyframe commented on Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS (2013) keithclark.co.uk/articles... · Posted by u/razodactyl
Keyframe commented on Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS (2013) keithclark.co.uk/articles... · Posted by u/razodactyl
I remember the promise of VRML, but never had a machine powerful enough to render anything but the simplest examples.
I worked on SGI machines at the time and even that wasn't powerful enough. Even though Indy was dubbed as "the web machine" (I worked on Indigo2). It was a bit too early when it was promised.
Neat! I was curious as well after reading it and here's a quick parametric visualizer to play with what was described in the text (thanks, Claude!): https://codepen.io/CaptainKeyframe/pen/zxvWVNo
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So, SIMD but in python and on GPU?
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Keyframe commented on I used to know how to write in Japanese aethermug.com/posts/i-use... · Posted by u/mrcgnc
This article actually hits on a pet peeve of mine where I feel people sorta “mystify” kanji/hanzi unnecessarily.
The truth is that there’s actually nothing particularly weird about being able to read some kanji but not be able to write them…
You actually get close to my point here:
> Admittedly, I've never heard of someone forgetting how to write a letter from the Latin alphabet.
Yes! But have you ever heard of someone forgetting how to spell certain words in a language that uses the Latin alphabet (e.g., English)? I can use myself as an example here: while writing this comment, I forgot how to spell “peeve” in “pet peeve” (I thought it had an ‘a’ in it) and I also forgot how to spell “unnecessarily” (I thought it had one n and two c’s).
The western equivalent of being able to read some kanji but not write them is simply called bad speling. No need to mystify kanji in particular.
This happened with cyrillic to me. During Yugoslavia we had to learn both latin and cyrillic. Since I'm from Croatia, I didn't have a need much for cyrillic (or at all). Today, I can read _at speed_ (including subtitles) cyrillic just fine, but I probably couldn't write a thing if my life depended on it. It's weird when I think about it.
It's Microsoft. I'm sure there are wonderful people there, but haven't we witnessed recently their master key leak, their engineers begging GPT in PRs to do stuff, their CEO boasting 'backend' engineers are going away.. I wouldn't rely on that company for anything, but I acknowledge a ton of people are not in that position. If they do stay however, it's malpractice.
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