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
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#quadplay now hashes the entire virtual GPU command stream, and when it detects a duplicate frame does not render it.
Since many games have 15 fps animations or static screens, this can reduce load significantly. In a strategy game I was profiling it reduces the work per frame from 1.1ms to 0.2ms!
I did this as a mobile power/heat optimization--it doesn't help framerate/performance, since it targets games that aren't pushing perf.
More beautiful BC hiking in provincial island parks this weekend. Native arbutus/madrone trees that shed their orange bark are a distinctive fixture on these shores.
I'm used to having these islands to myself in the winter. Warm weather brings company. Ten other boats are squeezing into this cove. It is great to see everyone politely helping others to anchor safely and securely, lending a hand, gear, or advice.
A significant amount of my cabin storage is devoted to shoes on the boat.
Hiking boots, offshore boots, ankle sailing boots, reef shoes, slippers, slides (for walking a dock to the bathroom in the morning), sailing sneakers, shore sneakers, hip waders, and lightweight summer sailing sneakers.
And I still have nothing "nice" to wear on shore for socializing!
I needed a *lightweight*, comprehensive string serializer for JavaScript for networking, so I wrote this short 300 line solution and released it under the MIT license:
https://github.com/morgan3d/serializejs
There's a number of other JSON++ libraries out there and I link to some in the docs. Unfortunately none had the exact mix of features I needed.
At a mooring, enjoying the evening on Meridian.
We've had an unexpected amount of wind lately in the Salish sea, getting 20+ kts and sometimes gusting above 30. This is from corresponding huge barometric pressure changes that are very migraine inspiring.
But it's otherwise been mild weather and mostly clear skies, so a very good summer for sailing and outdoor activities.
Some cool bits included:
- Fast algorithm for solving English word games (e.g., boggle, scrabble, wordle)
- Even more pixel art fonts, naturally :)
- Decent quality creative commons word list for English
- A list of sensitive (obscene, politically-charged, etc.) words you may want to prohibit in games or chat
- Tiny hack for a quadplay game to self-host directly from a git *source* repo, without exporting it. This is good for external and mobile playtesters
