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Nathan Reed

Graphics programming at Sucker Punch on Ghost of Tsushima. Previously, VR tech at 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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38 Physically based shading - ambient/indirect lighting Sep 6 '16
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19 Why is the transposed inverse of the model view matrix used to transform the normal vectors? Sep 15 '15
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