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First up, who the heck am *I* to have an opinion on this?

When programming high performance applications, such as video games, you learn neat tricks for writing fast code that makes the most of limited resources.

I get asked fairly often what people need to know to be hireable as a graphics programmer.

I get asked fairly often what people need to know to be hireable as a graphics programmer.

My name is Alan Wolfe, and I’m a game and engine programmer with over 25 years of experience.

My name is Alan Wolfe, and I’m a game and engine programmer with over 25 years of experience.

I recently watched a great 16 minute YouTube video on the basics of information theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

I recently watched a great 16 minute YouTube video on the basics of information theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

This article explains how these four things fit together and shows some examples of what they are used for.

This article explains how these four things fit together and shows some examples of what they are used for.

The code that made the diagrams in this post can be found at https://github.com/Atrix256/ToroidalProgressiveStratification1D I stumbled on this when working on something else.

The code that made the diagrams in this post can be found at https://github.com/Atrix256/ToroidalProgressiveStratification1D I stumbled on this when working on something else.

The noise textures used in this post, and the python scripts used to generate the diagrams, can be found on github at https://github.com/Atrix256/Threshold_STBN_FAST Thresholding blue noise textures can be a decent way of getting blue noise points at runt…

The noise textures used in this post, and the python scripts used to generate the diagrams, can be found on github at https://github.com/Atrix256/Threshold_STBN_FAST Thresholding blue noise textures can be a decent way of getting blue noise points at runt…

When looking at the politics of the American right and the American left, there is no contest for me as to which to support, if these are my only options.

When looking at the politics of the American right and the American left, there is no contest for me as to which to support, if these are my only options.

FYI this blog is proudly woke: Trans rights are human rights, Israel needs to stop the genocide in Palestine, Trump is everything the founding fathers of the USA were trying to protect the country against, and black lives matter.

FYI this blog is proudly woke: Trans rights are human rights, Israel needs to stop the genocide in Palestine, Trump is everything the founding fathers of the USA were trying to protect the country against, and black lives matter.

I stumbled across a very cool YouTube video today that talks about how to look for alternate ways of labeling sides of two dice to give you the same random number distribution as if you added two standard dice together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

I stumbled across a very cool YouTube video today that talks about how to look for alternate ways of labeling sides of two dice to give you the same random number distribution as if you added two standard dice together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

In this post I’ll be showing two different ways to scale points along a specific direction (a vector).