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Comment Re:Don't overthink it (Score 1) 174

Definitely agree. An added advantage is that there are many photo backup apps which work great, and often for free. For example Google Photos is great (although kind of scary when you can search within your images without tagging anything). I am not sure what the iPhone options are as I have never owned one, but the camera quality generally seems better (than Samsung anyway) and there are more photo accessories if you are into that. My family photo album is basically Facebook now (great for showing off to grandparents), and backed up to Google Photos.

Comment He doesn't understand the analogy (Score 1) 303

The analogy expressed in the article isn't procedural versus OOP - which the author completely misses the point over. The analogy is serial versus parallel computing. In the first case each student is dealt with individually in order, in the second case the principal is a despatcher and each student is an independent process. So the analogy does hold. It has nothing to do with objects or not.

Comment Re:One bad decision (Score 1) 352

Kodak was also fundamental in creating the world's first Digital Imaging system for movie effects, colour management. The Cineon system included film scanners and recorders, the Cineon compositing application and the Cineon file format (10 bit log). Only the file format effectively remains as Kodak abandoned Cineon in the late 90's - just when digital vfx was getting really popular.

Comment Re:Dunno... (Score 1) 422

Moon had some great CGI in it. The most obvious one is the digital duplication. Gerty is CGI in most shots and there was a lot of enhancement to the miniatures such as matte paintings and digital debris. Seamless CGI which enhances the story is great. When it is used as a substitute for the story is when people complain about it. Physical effects can look great when used in the correct situations, but saying you are going to make a film only using them is just a cheap gimmick to promote their movie.
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The Games Programmers Play 163

An anonymous reader writes "Cort Stratton, a developer who has worked on graphics code for many first-party PS3 games, wrote an article about the kinds of games that appeal to programmers. He covers coding-friendly games of varying depth, mentioning basics like RoboRally, RoboSport and Frozen Synapse before moving on to more complex options. Quoting: 'On the surface, SpaceChem has nothing to do with programming; it's merely a futuristic puzzle game in which you build factories that convert one or more input molecules into one or more output molecules. Each factory contains a pair of independent molecule manipulators (the game calls them "waldos") which follow a fixed path through the work area. Waldos can grab, drop, and rotate molecules, make and break chemical bonds between atoms, request new input molecules and submit output molecules. ... Don't be fooled! This isn't a game about chemistry; it's actually the closest thing I've ever seen to a low-level SPU programming simulator! Each factory is an SPU running a single task. The two waldos are the SPU's dual execution pipelines. Moving and editing molecules is analogous to reading, writing and operating on data in local store.'"

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