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Nathan Reed

Graphics programmer, formerly at Sucker Punch and NVIDIA. Math and coding blog writer, sometime musician, sci-fi and physics nerd, cat dad, coffeeholic.

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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44 DirectX / OpenGL(Vulkan) concepts mapping chart Dec 28 '16
38 Physically based shading - ambient/indirect lighting Sep 6 '16
29 When is a compute shader more efficient than a pixel shader for image filtering? Aug 5 '15
25 Why does my Perlin Noise look “blocky”? May 15 '16
25 Why is recursion forbidden in OpenCL? Aug 29 '15
25 What is the cost of changing state? Aug 5 '15
23 How does hardware texture compression work? Sep 27 '15
20 Why is the transposed inverse of the model view matrix used to transform the normal vectors? Sep 15 '15
20 Why is work-efficiency desired in GPU programming? Aug 28 '15
18 Why is it twice as expensive to make a noise function that can be tiled? Aug 15 '15
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