Sam Hocevar

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bio	website	sam.zoy.org
	location	Paris, France
	age	34
visits	member for	2 years, 2 months
	seen	May 17 at 13:22
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I live in Paris, France.

I work on PlayStation, Xbox and computer games for a living. I write free software and all kind of crazy shit for fun. My interests: image processing, video coding, game development, maths, physics, compression, cryptography.

	11,857 reputation	bio	website	sam.zoy.org	visits	member for	2 years, 2 months
22653 badges		location	Paris, France		seen	May 17 at 13:22

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May 14	awarded	Guru
May 14	awarded	Nice Answer
Apr 26	awarded	Announcer
Apr 22	awarded	Nice Answer
Apr 6	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on Updating OpenGL ES 1.1 based iPhone game to use Open GL ES 2.0
Mar 29	comment	Why is my sky color calculation in Mathematica incorrect? The question is really too localised and might get closed, but thanks for the paper link, it's interesting.
Mar 29	answered	Why is my sky color calculation in Mathematica incorrect?
Mar 28	comment	Why are graphics engines writern in C/C++, when games are GPU bound? This question really lacks acceptability of premises. A lot of the games I know are CPU bound.
Mar 20	comment	Why do game engines convert models to triangles compared to keeping it as four side polygon Being coplanar doesn’t “ALWAYS define a flat plane”.
Mar 15	answered	An object twice as close appears twice as big?
Mar 11	comment	Handling window resize with arbitrary aspect ratios possible duplicate of Scaling a game view with letterboxes?
Mar 11	revised	lemniscate of Bernoulli spelling
Mar 9	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on Merging InputProcessor and GestureDetector
Mar 9	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on SpriteBatch.Begin() making my model not render correctly
Mar 9	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on How do I calculate distance from a point to a rectangle?
Mar 9	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on How do I get the child of a unique parent in ActionScript?
Mar 9	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on LibGDX Swipe Detection Left and Right
Mar 8	reviewed	Edit suggested edit on Distance between two objects?
Mar 8	revised	Distance between two objects? Added mention of 'surfaces'
Mar 7	awarded	Good Answer