Thursday, January 29, 2009

3 gigs 0f RAM rules.

Alt tabbing between SWAT 4 and Chrome is instant :D
And I have iTunes and Word open.

No swap used.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Okay, this is not going to be an IT post per-se.

But.

MICROSOFT IS SHUTTING DOWN ACES?
The team that created Microsoft Flight Simulator?! (Train Sim too,but still.)

):

ESP looks interesting though.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Raytracing

As quoted from Wikipedia, "Ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in a image plane."

In essence, you generate a ray for each pixel from the view point, then send it out to the world and then check for any collisions. Once there is a collision, generate another ray recursively to track the reflected/refracted ray.

Works perfect for translucent and shiny objects (reflection/refraction). Photorealistic images too!

Looks fun :D