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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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57 DirectX / OpenGL(Vulkan) concepts mapping chart Dec 28 '16
49 When is a compute shader more efficient than a pixel shader for image filtering? Aug 5 '15
42 Physically based shading - ambient/indirect lighting Sep 6 '16
31 What is the cost of changing state? Aug 5 '15
28 What is the simplest way to compute principal curvature for a mesh triangle? Nov 14 '15
27 Why is the transposed inverse of the model view matrix used to transform the normal vectors? Sep 15 '15
27 How does hardware texture compression work? Sep 27 '15
25 World coordinates, Normalised device coordinates and device coordinates Dec 2 '15
25 Why is recursion forbidden in OpenCL? Aug 29 '15
24 Why does my Perlin Noise look "blocky"? May 15 '16
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