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Diary of a Graphics Programmer

Personal blog · diaryofagraphicsprogrammer.blogspot.comprogramminggames

Diary of a Graphics Programmer is a personal blog at diaryofagraphicsprogrammer.blogspot.com about programming and games. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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2009–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for graphics programming techniques, such as a light pre-pass approach to deferred shading that works without MRT. One commenter calls it a graphics blog worth a look.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. panic · 2017-07-25
    Here are a bunch of blogs from my RSS reader that I think are worth reading. Some of them haven't updated in a while, but the archives may be worth a look anyway. * Blogs with a math focus: http://blog.sigfpe.com http://bit-player.org http://mathr.co.uk/blog/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/ * Blogs with a programming languages focus: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com https://bluishcoder.co.nz http://blog.ezyang.…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?”
  2. ingve · 2018-09-08

    Submitted Ray Tracing Without Ray Tracing API as a story · 50 points

    HN discussion
  3. torlok · 2024-12-20
    You don't even need MRT to do deferred shading. You can do a light pre-pass as described here https://diaryofagraphicsprogrammer.blogspot.com/2008/03/ligh... . There's limitations because without MRT you can only output the normal in RGB and roughtness in A, but it works.

    Comment linking /2008/03/light-pre-pass-renderer.html

    on “Show HN: WebGPU Tech Demo”
  4. pablode · 2018-03-31

    Submitted Triangle Visibility Buffer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. dirtyaura · 2009-08-13Recommends
    A pretty good graphics related blog http://diaryofagraphicsprogrammer.blogspot.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Latest news on computer graphics and related fields?”

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