These are some notes on how to manually draw triangles in code. Possibly useful if you’re trying to write your own software renderer, or are just curious how it works.
There’s two ways to do this. One is quite CPU intensive, the other is mathematical and less CPU intensive. The CPU intensive version scales well if run on something with multiple cores, like a GPU. So there’s tradeoffs in which method is used and when.
I use Obsidian as my central note storing system. Here’s how I sync all my files between my phone, laptop and desktop machines. For free.
First, Obsidian is actually a piece of software worth paying for. I used to simply store a bunch of text files in a folder and edit them with any old random text editor. Obsidian makes this easier. Linking between pages, the tree view, the nice colours… it all makes the job of editing and managing text nicer.
While shopping I find a self service checkout that’s having a bad day.
Someone call IT support, the HDD in this one has died. Still, it’s nice to see penguins out in the wild.
This post is showing some sort of bug in my blog template. There is supposed to be an image up there, but it’s not showing.
I’m creating a game engine from scratch. Last time I wrote about the entity component system and how that works. This time I want to explain how the entities get created.
There’s loads of blog posts and YouTube videos explaining how to be more organised, how to stop procrastinating, and how to generally be more productive. None of them seem to be written for people who are busy, rather than trying to avoid work.
Let’s make a game engine properly, rather than beating on it until something works. This time, I’m creating an entity component system.
My #Chromebook just had another update, and it’s now gained the ability to be controlled using facial gestures. And it’s pretty cool.
It turns out making proxy files is quite important when editing video across your LAN. Don’t edit video across your LAN, it ends in tears and frustration.
I’ve worked out how to work on the same Davinci Resolve project from two different computers, at the same time.
I ditched DJGPP for now and am using Borland C++ 3.1 that I found on some abandonware website. I even sent the user manual to an online document printer to get it bound into a real book.
