noah witherspoon

have you seen the Lost In Space remake? her Dr. Smith was enthralling.

the Lake House DLC has a very pointed take on this

the “progression blocker” line early on made me grin. ludonarrative… consonance?

I’ve tried it for the basic ellipse case—as the presentation notes the method breaks down when you get farther in/out from the edge (e.g. for shadows/glows) but for antialiasing it seemed to work well

there’s been a paper or two about generating extra motion vectors for shadows specifically, but IIRC it looked like a headache. isn’t NV’s newish optical-flow stuff meant to kinda address that though?

I think you’d have to raymarch / numerically integrate it, the same way you do for e.g. the warped space around a black hole—with no hard interfaces to apply Fresnel refraction at, you’d pick intervals through the medium at which to place “virtual” ones and refract from the previous IOR to the next.

those are equivalent; pow() with an arbitrary exponent is indeed more expensive than a multiply, but no reasonable vector length code is calling pow()

Myria LeJean

hey Heather! good to see you here too. your Tumblr post really resonated with me—can’t have been easy to leave such a large audience behind but it’s the right thing to do. hopefully enough folks moving elsewhere will start to break the stranglehold that Twitter and IG have had on everyone.

you’re close I think, but “i” in Spanish is pronounced like “ee” in English—to my ear it sounds as if it’d be spelled with a diphthong like “ay” as in “playa” or “ai” as in “maiz”.

it’s so comfortable! feels luxe. our last car was a Leaf so this is a huge improvement in a whole lot of ways.

oh hey we got the same color! haven’t seen that one anywhere else yet—everyone seems to have gone for the more ordinary ones. how do you like the car?

hah I figured it was time to update to one that’s only a few years old instead of more than a decade

only tried out a bunch of characters in the practice range so far, but it feels very promising. lots of clever ability ideas, like Loki’s duplication and Mantis’s crit-attack-to-recharge-heals. maybe once more people have a feel for it the games will get more strategic.

ah that works, thanks! my go-to is the Apple Books store, but if it won’t be there then I’m happy to go with the printed version 🙂

looks like a lot of good material! is it going to be available anywhere other than Kindle?

it’s so good! terrific atmosphere + writing. really liked the DLC too.

I’ve enjoyed it a lot—it’s quite Far Cry-y, for better and (rarely) worse. the stealth base missions are a lot of fun and it has hands-down the most gorgeous forest I’ve ever seen in a game.

we may well have! I stopped by y’all’s booth at SIGGRAPH to see what was new; I think it may have been your co-founder I talked to, but I imagine you both met hundreds of people there. I’ll make sure to say hi next time.

a small, light-colored, beautiful dog, half-curled-up and looking skeptically at the camera. she is wearing a collar that looks like a pearl necklace.

oh and I didn’t have enough characters to mention this but: here is my dog. her name is Madam.

quick introduction:

hi I am Noah; I make things. usually the things are real-time computer graphics. I work at Apple, mostly on internal design tools but sometimes on stuff that makes it out into the world.

outside of that I play—and sometimes make—games, travel, and do aerial hoop and parkour.

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