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Nathan Reed
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3D rendering at Adobe, formerly at 343, Sucker Punch, and NVIDIA. Math and coding blog writer, sometime musician, sci-fi and physics nerd, cat dad, coffeeholic. He/him.

I teach computers how to make pretty pictures. I'm excited by the art of creating beautiful, immersive worlds and telling stories in them. I enjoy elegant ideas and explaining how things work.

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DirectX / OpenGL(Vulkan) concepts mapping chart
Dec 28, 2016
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When is a compute shader more efficient than a pixel shader for image filtering?
Aug 5, 2015
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Physically based shading - ambient/indirect lighting
Sep 6, 2016
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What is the cost of changing state?
Aug 5, 2015
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What is the simplest way to compute principal curvature for a mesh triangle?
Nov 14, 2015
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Why is the transposed inverse of the model view matrix used to transform the normal vectors?
Sep 15, 2015
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How does hardware texture compression work?
Sep 27, 2015
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World coordinates, Normalised device coordinates and device coordinates
Dec 2, 2015
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Why is recursion forbidden in OpenCL?
Aug 29, 2015
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Why does my Perlin Noise look "blocky"?
May 15, 2016
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Is this site only about 3D topics?
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Are questions about procedural noise on topic?
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How do we draw the line between questions that are appropriate for Computer Graphics vs. Stack Overflow vs. Graphic Design?
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Are libs like CUDA and OpenCL are legal topics for this site?
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Can write an answer and update it from time to time?
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<Subtype>Designer</Subtype> Added then removed by Visual Studio on load/unload
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How to create a temporary file that can be read by a subprocess?
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Why are radians preferred over degrees in game development?
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Does HDR rendering have any benefits if bloom won't be applied?
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How AAA games use this texture in the tone-mapping shader?

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