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John Calsbeek

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99 votes

How do you generate tileable Perlin noise?

answered Feb 10, 2012 at 8:02

76 votes

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What's the most efficient way to find barycentric coordinates?

answered Feb 12, 2012 at 4:20

27 votes

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Why did the old 3D games have "jittery" graphics?

answered Apr 5, 2012 at 8:09

21 votes

How to avoid game objects accidentally deleting themselves in C++

answered Apr 6, 2012 at 5:01

18 votes

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Determine Resulting Angle of Wall Collision

answered Feb 10, 2012 at 20:39

11 votes

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How to bounce a 2d point particle off of a circular edge

answered Aug 1, 2012 at 5:25

10 votes

What are the properties of "position, velocity, acceleration, rotation" collectively named?

answered Aug 17, 2012 at 3:00

9 votes

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How do I convert matrices intended for OpenGL to be compatible for DirectX?

answered Mar 30, 2012 at 20:55

8 votes

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Why shouldn't templates be used on video game consoles?

answered Apr 1, 2012 at 6:42

8 votes

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When does depth testing happen?

answered Apr 3, 2012 at 22:36

8 votes

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Composition heavy OOP vs pure entity component systems?

answered Aug 21, 2012 at 3:11

7 votes

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How do I load graphical resources asynchronously?

answered Apr 3, 2013 at 5:34

7 votes

What is the most efficient way to convert to binary and back in C#?

answered Apr 2, 2012 at 23:00

7 votes

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Finding the contact point with SAT

answered Apr 6, 2012 at 5:23

7 votes

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Implementing framerate independence

answered Jul 13, 2012 at 4:26

6 votes

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Early Z culling - Ogre

answered Apr 2, 2012 at 15:48

5 votes

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Trouble with speed and vectors

answered Mar 26, 2012 at 9:16

4 votes

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How do I load a texture in OpenGL where the origin of the texture(0, 0) isn't in the bottom left?

answered Mar 25, 2012 at 21:16

4 votes

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Why is antialiasing dependent on sampling?

answered Feb 11, 2012 at 12:01

4 votes

Map tile terrain transitions with 3-4 different types

answered Jul 19, 2012 at 3:56

4 votes

Quaternions - how to limit axis?

answered Jul 25, 2012 at 15:01

4 votes

In a client server first person shooter how does the server keep track of each player's hit boxes?

answered Aug 25, 2012 at 16:56

3 votes

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My transparent objects overwrite opaque objects depth and always draw on top?

answered Jul 21, 2012 at 14:41

3 votes

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Does CADisplayLink automatically control the app's timestep?

answered Feb 11, 2012 at 12:19

3 votes

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Rendering 3D out of layers - optimizing fillrate?

answered Feb 8, 2012 at 9:25

3 votes

Do unused vertices in a 3D object affect performance?

answered Mar 25, 2012 at 20:42

3 votes

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XNA 2D line-of-sight check

answered Apr 5, 2012 at 4:20

2 votes

What rendering techniques would I use to draw a drop shadow effect for cards in a card game?

answered Dec 2, 2011 at 2:16

2 votes

Optimizing gaussian blur with linear filtering

answered Apr 16, 2012 at 8:16

2 votes

How to combine image with a gradient? Or make it more featured in a different way

answered Jul 25, 2012 at 3:02

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