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coding adventures
Personal blog · astralcode.blogspot.comprogramminggames
coding adventures is a personal blog at astralcode.blogspot.com about programming and games. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3 (2018)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for graphics programming posts, such as a reverse-engineering deep-dive into the painterly Van Gogh-style framebuffer shader in The Witcher 3's Hearts of Stone DLC.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3 (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-24
What Hacker News says?
A relevant and highly appealing shader is the 'Van Gogh painting' effect applied to the framebuffer in one quest of the the Hearts of Stone DLC for The Witcher 3 . Here is a great reverse-engineering deep-dive: https://astralcode.blogspot.com/2020/11/reverse-engineering-...
Comment linking /2020/11/reverse-engineering-rendering-of.html
on “Crafting Painterly Shaders”Submitted Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3 (2018) as a story · 263 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the drunk effect in the Witcher 3 has been made as a story · 2 points
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