morgan

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Morgan McGuire - Gone sailing!

Known for Roblox, NVIDIA, Markdeep, Activision, Graphics Codex, G3D, Skylanders, E Ink, Titan Quest, Vicarious Visions, Unity, Williams College, U. Waterloo, Quadplay, Computer Graphics: Principles & Practice

Homepagehttps://casual-effects.com

New friendly quadplay website that is not a github README :)

https://morgan3d.github.io/quadplay/

TIL that there was a portable PC Engine in Japan in the shape of a laptop, this thing looks awesome. I searched eBay out of curiosity and it's eye-watering prices of course https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/1lncq12/the_nec_pc_engine_lt/

"ching-9" pixel art font with extended European character set, in the style of architect Frank Ching's iconic handwriting.

Licensed as CC BY 4.0 as with all of my fonts, and available for free in the #quadplay repo as part of the fantasy console.

#screenshotsaturday

Meshes with 90° angles are super useful, providing asymptotically faster convergence for finite element simulation, and optimal shape approximation (when aligned with curvature).

Amazingly, no past quad meshing method could guarantee 90° angles under refinement—until now. #RSP

I had a brief, very specific obsession with creating tiny mecha from LEGO. I'm all better now. Until next time...

On a modern mobile device HTML game, does it use less power if I issue fewer CPU instructions per frame or use fewer threads?

How? Won't a browser end up keeping all cores filled with its other work? Aren't CPU cores fixed cost per cycle? Is there an indirect power savings through reduced RAM operations?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZlJ4bHx1OQ

Gorgeous, animated real-time procedural trees fully explained:

https://diglib.eg.org/items/93fc78c0-71fa-4511-8564-a7e5268bf27a

Real-Time GPU Tree Generation; Kuth, Oberberger, Faber, Pfeifer, Tabaei, Baumeister, Meyer; HPG 2025

This is very aggressively (perhaps too aggressively) stated, but he's absolutely right. People are all worried their ideas are gonna be "stolen", and my friends, I can assure you that won't be the problem.

Still salty that we got Picard instead of #StarTrekAway:

On Stardate 58197.2 a crack First Contact unit was sent to prison by a Starfleet court for a Prime Directive violation they didn't commit. These beings promptly escaped from a maximum security ice moon stockade to the Bajorran underground. Today, still wanted by the Federation, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The Away-Team

Starring: Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc "Hannibal" Picard. Michelle Forbes as Ro "Face" Laren. Dwight Schultz as Reginald "Howling Mad" Barclay. And Michael Dorn as "BA" Worf.

With: Jonathan Frakes as Section 31 Col. Will "Decker" Riker.

I love it when a headcanon comes together

I finally put Meridian's name on the hull! Now she's properly able to introduce herself.

I'd been waiting until after I finished installing dinghy davits so that I'd know where to put the stern decals to work around them.

I spent the rest of the day provisioning, watering, doing laundry, tidying electronics, and cleaning (with a few breaks for video meetings and some debugging!)

We're finally all ready for summer sailing.

#sailing #theBoatyard

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TIL that there was a portable PC Engine in Japan in the shape of a laptop, this thing looks awesome. I searched eBay out of curiosity and it's eye-watering prices of course https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/1lncq12/the_nec_pc_engine_lt/
@djlink there really were a staggering number of variants of the PCE. I don't believe any version was officially released in the southern hemisphere.
@djlink Japan was such a magical place for computers in the late 80s/early 90s. Just all manners of slightly unorthodox personal computers with kick-ass design. The MSX Turbo R was a complete dud, and still my dream computer for many years. The PCE was just a dream, only seen in blurry photos.
@djlink This was my holy grail until 2 years ago. I finally bought it (a broken one and fixed it). Over 30 years every time I saw it I found it to be too expensive, but it only got more expensive so 2 years ago I finally convinced myself it would be worth the money. It's awesome. But the screen is old.... Can't be compared to current quality screens.