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PataBlog
Personal blog · patapom.com/blogprogramminggames
PataBlog is a personal blog at patapom.com about programming and games. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link PataBlog's pages on graphics and lighting, such as a post on colored penumbra shadows, to explain the rendering effect. Another thread discusses programming futurism.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
I dunno, I think programming is pretty futuristic. We've got live coding, futuristic platforms, fast dynamic languages, etc... Of course, the most futuristic platform is right under people's noses, the browser. It does things that old Lisp programmers imagined, like live coding, even 3D games, with sound, and even Kinect-like motion control. Live coding: http://www.mrdoob.com/projects/htmleditor/ WebRTC: http://cbat…
Comment linking /topics/WebGL/cathedral/index.html
on “Why Isn’t Programming Futuristic?”Submitted Spherical Harmonics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis page helped me understand what they’re going for: https://patapom.com/blog/Lighting/Colored%20Penumbra/Colored... . The way I’m intuiting it: some things will “glow” when strongly illuminated, and the glow is more colored than the reflected light, so if the illumination has a hard edge then the penumbra can end up saturated by the more strongly illuminated part’s glow. OP’s rendition isn’t quite landing for me,…
Comment linking /blog/Lighting/Colored%20Penumbra/ColoredShadows/
on “Colored Shadow Penumbra”Submitted Multiple-Scattering BRDF as a story · 1 points
HN discussion