Normal maps are a good example of tricks in games, why make a watery surface millions of triangles when you can just fake how light reflects off of it and trick people into thinking its got millions of triangles

Pilot sustained a compression fracture of the thoracic spine and superficial abrasions to the neck and face as a result of the mishap

Can it pass Are you a Robot checks????

I could see this destroying a lot of jobs like photography, editing, marketing, etc.

These jobs won't go away. Power tools didn't destroy carpentry. Computers didn't destroy math. But workers who don't embrace these new tools will probably get left behind by those who do.

The Tiger Woods PGA Tour game on IPhone in the 2010s was a full fledged PGA tour game with fun entirely 3D golf courses and a full career of tournaments and points to earn and spend, I consider the best full 3D game ever on IPhone and spent many hours playing it

That game was ahead of its time. My team worked on the post launch updates/ports of it, and because it was well optimized for the original dev target it was actually a bit of a pain! (The shadows especially).

It was working on that which caused us to find a certain SoC supplier saying different things to different manufacturers.

Have there been studies about abilities of different students to memorize information? I feel this is under-studied in the world of memorizing for exams

this website still uses shaders its just a button called materials after clicking the 3 bars in the bottom right of the screen

That is the only thing modern GPUs understand, so naturally it still uses them.

I see this as a higher level DSL for modelling, instead of doing something like SDF by hand.

NASA astronauts on board Expedition 44...didn't expect flashbacks like that

I have an odd obsession with github repos that only have 1 file

that is an upfront assumption about what happiness would look like, if you got a few months into that plan you would realize that meaning and fulfilment go farther with happiness