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David Colson's personal blog at david-colson.com covers games, programming and math. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's article on PS1-style rendering, which explains how the PS1 renders graphics and why it behaves the way it does. One commenter calls it a great article.

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My personal writings on game development, maths and physics

Most-linked posts?

  1. Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-12-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. ok_dad · 2022-08-03Recommends
    Linked in the README is the article this is probably based on, which explains the rendering for a PS1 and why it has certain behaviors, it's a great article: https://www.david-colson.com/2021/11/30/ps1-style-renderer.h...

    Comment linking /2021/11/30/ps1-style-renderer.html

    on “Show HN: Tiny PS1-like Renderer in 500 lines”
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