Hacker News: 10098

GPU-Accelerated Particles with WebGL 2

10098 — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:46:25 +0000

Article URL: https://gpfault.net/posts/webgl2-particles.txt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14786684

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

What Does Perlin Noise Sound Like?

10098 — Sat, 13 May 2017 04:45:33 +0000

Article URL: http://gpfault.net/posts/perlin-sound.txt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329563

Points: 81

# Comments: 31

In Praise of Drop-In Libraries

10098 — Mon, 01 May 2017 17:24:17 +0000

Article URL: http://gpfault.net/posts/drop-in-libraries.txt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14239500

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Using Perlin Noise to Generate 2D Terrain and Water

10098 — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 18:33:22 +0000

Article URL: http://gpfault.net/posts/perlin-noise.txt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303237

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Rendering the Mandelbrot Set with WebGL

10098 — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:42:47 +0000

Article URL: http://gpfault.net/posts/mandelbrot-webgl.txt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12609651

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter

10098 — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 01:13:15 +0000

Article URL: http://gpfault.net/posts/most-important-project.txt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12553591

Points: 313

# Comments: 149

New comment by 10098 in "G is for Google"

10098 — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:01:35 +0000

Aren't Chromebooks the best selling laptop on amazon or something?

New comment by 10098 in "Gnomes per second in Vulkan and OpenGL ES"

10098 — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:20:10 +0000

Is the Vulkan spec out already? Where can I get it?

New comment by 10098 in "Procedurally generated HTML5 3D world with day/night cycle"

10098 — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:25:42 +0000

I suppose it could help somewhat (at least the client wouldn't have to keep that huge world in memory), but now you have to deal with sending input to a remote server over an unreliable connection, and also being able to steadily render and compress about 180mb of data per second on the server side, and get it back to the client within a second to achieve 30fps @ 1928x1080. I think this will definitely be noticeable (I remember experiencing a noticeable delay with OnLive even though the connection was pretty good).

The real solution would probably be finding an effective way of dealing with memory on the client side. I don't know what the state of the art in javascript land is but big environments like this are better streamed from disk into memory portion by portion rather than putting it there all at once (i'm pretty sure there is no standard api that lets you do something like this).

New comment by 10098 in "Procedurally generated HTML5 3D world with day/night cycle"

10098 — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:09:19 +0000

I'm using Chrome and Intel HD graphics 4600. It kinda stutters/drops frames.

I know it's a crappy graphics card, but this demo isn't some magical eye candy either, and there's not even a lot of gameplay going on.

I'm not sure if the problem is actually on the graphics programming side of things (bad shader maybe?) or it's just the javascript being slow.

New comment by 10098 in "Killing Off Wasabi"

10098 — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:12:50 +0000

I wonder how much time and money they would save if they had just bitten the bullet and rewritten the entire thing in PHP in the first place instead of doing what they did.

New comment by 10098 in "Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor"

10098 — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 05:40:43 +0000

It looks more like a beginning of an online IDE than a direct github competitor. It's just convenient if you're already using Google's cloud services.

New comment by 10098 in "Hosteurope.de shut down our servers due to “political incorrectness”"

10098 — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:03:37 +0000

You should be made illegal.

New comment by 10098 in "How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10"

10098 — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:04:52 +0000

I'm relieved to say that whole drunk father story turned out better than I expected.

New comment by 10098 in "Java: Real or Not?"

10098 — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 18:41:35 +0000

Only 85% coverage? Tsk tsk tsk...

New comment by 10098 in "Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to Be a Religion (2011)"

10098 — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 04:05:59 +0000

also, why inflict your "quirkiness" on your kids by naming them random letter combinations

New comment by 10098 in "Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to Be a Religion (2011)"

10098 — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 01:32:41 +0000

> Except of course that that would make it completely boring to play

Yeah. Because that's what it is.

> It's the part of the game that's encoded socially rather than algorithmically that make it unique and interesting.

For board games maybe. This is a video game, a different medium, and it doesn't work that way. The player can and will do anything the game program allows them to do.

New comment by 10098 in "Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to Be a Religion (2011)"

10098 — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:11:14 +0000

I just feel bad for his kids.

New comment by 10098 in "Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to Be a Religion (2011)"

10098 — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:08:28 +0000

Then it's no different than just putting minecraft on a flash drive. It's the video game world equivalent of selling canned poop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_Shit) and calling it art.

New comment by 10098 in "Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to Be a Religion (2011)"

10098 — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 23:45:47 +0000

This is the stupidest idea ever.

EDIT: I mean the game. It would be cool, if the rules were actually enforceable, but they aren't. No one is actually able to prevent the player from playing and dying as much as he likes, or creating replicas of the flash drive posing as the real thing.