Sam Hocevar

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bio	website	sam.zoy.org
	location	Paris, France
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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.

	11,945 reputation	bio	website	sam.zoy.org	visits	member for	2 years, 2 months
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Feb 4	revised	How do I detect the intersection of a curve with itself? add author's image
Feb 4	answered	Phong lighting model unrealistic result
Feb 3	answered	Where can I find a chess tileset?
Feb 3	revised	Does SFML render graphics outside the window? spelling (frustum)
Feb 3	revised	Communicating between simulation and rendering in RTS spelling (frustum)
Feb 3	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on Anyone know good network Java Tutorials for Game Dev?
Feb 3	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on converting a mouse click to a ray
Feb 3	comment	What book/guide should I follow for GLSL I second the above comment. From what you explain it seems you’d also need something like this book (don’t pay attention to the ugly cover; the content is excellent).
Feb 2	revised	Game maps with “counties” that are split along lines that aren't necessarily straight spelling (tessellate)
Feb 2	revised	Improving the efficiency of frustum culling spelling (frustum) — just in case someone copy/pastes that code
Feb 2	revised	Arbitrary projection matrix from 6 arbitrary frustum planes spelling (frustum)
Feb 2	revised	In modern AAA games with open environment and lot of static content (eg : crysis), how is occlusion culling performed? spelling (frustum)
Feb 2	revised	In modern AAA games with open environment and lot of static content (eg : crysis), how is occlusion culling performed? spelling (frustum)
Feb 2	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on How should I implement parallax scrolling with pan and zoom in HTML5?
Feb 2	comment	vec4 for vec3 multiplication while calculating the specular value @RamyAlZuhouri Usually the alpha value does not come from the same light calculations as the colour value. You can certainly set it to 1.0 if your object is supposed to be opaque.
Feb 2	answered	vec4 for vec3 multiplication while calculating the specular value
Feb 2	revised	Basic isometric projection in Javascript give preference to vertical split
Feb 2	comment	Basic isometric projection in Javascript @Helbreder oh I understand now. I’ll go with “horizontal” and “vertical” then :-) But I think the problem with the horizontal split is that it requires a whole new transformation to be computed.
Feb 2	comment	Basic isometric projection in Javascript @Helbreder Can you explain what you mean by "left" and "right" splits?
Feb 2	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on control tag wiki excerpt