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Graphic Rants
Personal blog · graphicrants.blogspot.comprogramminggames
Graphic Rants is a personal blog at graphicrants.blogspot.com about programming and games. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Virtual Geometry Images (2009)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Graphic Rants is a graphics programming blog. One HN comment links its old virtual geometry post as background to Unreal Engine 5's geometry technology, noting the post was cited by the speaker.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Graphical, textual ramblings of a coder.
Most-linked posts?
- Virtual Geometry Images (2009)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-13
What Hacker News says?
I wouldn't be surprised if it has something to do with "Geometry Images." Like REYES, the goal is to target pixel-sized polygons, but it handles tessellation differently. Brian Karis, the programmer speaking in the video linked this old blog post of his from his twitter when talking about inspirations for the technology: http://graphicrants.blogspot.com/2009/01/virtual-geometry-im...
Comment linking /2009/01/virtual-geometry-images.html
on “A first look at Unreal Engine 5”Submitted Graphic Rants: Nanite Tessellation as a story · 27 points
HN discussionHere 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.…
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?”Submitted How to Tessellate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtual Geometry Images (2009) as a story · 1 points
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