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    Comment #24661093

    This is a fantastic resource and a must read but it is quite out of date in many respects. Especially in respect to the introduction of low level APIs, mesh shaders etc etc.

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    Comment #22943192

    Yes sorry that last paragraph is a bit of a munge it should read: Rendering it on the other hand would be relatively trivial with a marching cube algorithm AND using one or more ra…

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    Comment #22939967

    But you've still got to load the chunks from some massive dataset stored somewhere and you can still look/run around in a full sphere at 60fps? The backdrop pieces are effectively …

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    Comment #22939723

    I am a computer graphics guy and I reckon it'd largely be a memory issue. Essentially Minecraft is a voxel system which grows at a cubic rate. This will quickly fill your GPU's mem…

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    Comment #20804389

    The simple fact that most countries put tight spending regulations on election campaigns should tell you they work and why this level of advertising focus is something we should al…

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    Comment #19044575

    Because it'll be the worse trade deal anybody has signed in the history of the world for Britain.

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