Recent content by ShootMyMonkey

Hmm... it used to be visible to me before (and I was a member before I went silent for a few years), and I was able to post in it as recently as yesterday, but now it's not visible anymore.

Well, even when I was still working for The Creature, one of my former colleagues from that same company found a few comic book images of Hitler riding a t-rex with "frickin' laser beams" mounted on its head, so I don't think it's the most original idea that came out of it's head. That...

Been out of gaming for a while... stayed in the movie biz for a while which meant a couple of years doing film CG R&D, and not involved in anything realtime for a while, and that included some travails as an anti-theist ideologue which gets me a few murder threats a day, but that's technically...

Wow... I check out the boards for the first time in years, and I see The Creature reduxes... Good to know that the legend still lives on... and has spread like a cancer. What scares me is how many people I've met in the years since who would actually believe that this sort of film would...

Ummm... I'm Indian. The first programmer he originally hired (the one who actually interviewed me before the "Do you speak English" interview) was black. The quote about "black guy who's not selling drugs" was when we were interviewing someone else. And btw, I do plan to supply some more...

There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to omit texturing on modern hardware if you really wanted to. Given that we're dealing with programmable shading as a matter of course these days, you could just as easily write a fragment program that does no texture reads at all. Though texturing...

Hey, all... It's been a while since I've posted. I'm a lot busier these days and doing stuff that tends deeper down the academic trend (to say nothing of the fact that the neverending cycle of visa headaches are winding down to a close), and I've been way too focused on the book... I've...

Ah, Mitchell and Webb. I've always particularly loved the homeopathic medical drama bit. That and the Mister Deity bit about Mr. D and Jesus/Jesse are trying to make sense of the whole trinity thing.

In the case of shading micropolys in the first place, as you would with REYES or DWA's renderer or many other production rendering architectures, you already have a different problem space than you would in a realtime in-game rendering system. In the cases of not working with micropolys, I would...

In general, you'd want to sample the surface texturing because your averaging colors over a diffuse shading kernel, and your multiple samples will get your actual properly weighted average. Because you can't necessarily know what the proper weighting is ahead of time (since you could shoot your...

You didn't happen to notice that before they did that, they moved the camera and kept the display fixed (at ~1:00 mark)? I saw this live as well, but my biggest problem was that in order to get anything out of it, you needed a terrible amount of data/preprocessing to be done. Comparatively, I...

Cool. Hope the course materials go up soon as well. I was off at the OSL presentation, so I missed your part of the course and only got in around the time to see the tail end of Marco's bit. I was kind of saddened by the Uncharted piece -- not so much because it was a bad talk, but that he...

Not to be the wet blanket which I usually tend to be, but he seems to be talking about a problem which is already mostly solved in the case of REYES. Yeah, it was a problem that existed in the 80s, but Pixar has done loads of work since then on improving their visibility culling including...

All about word-things. I always wondered who the basis was for that Genesis song ("Jesus he Knows Me") --

Well, you pretty much need the added complexity of a regenerator to even get that much thermodynamic efficiency out of a turbine in the first place, but the point was simply about the "extreme-ness" of your counterarguments, which is why I went as extreme as a common gas turbine. I suppose if...