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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…

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 textu…

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

Totally agree.