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Nathan Reed

Bellevue, WA

reedbeta.com

Age: 27

I'm a graphics programmer, an amateur physicist, and a sci-fi nerd. I teach computers how to make pretty pictures. I'm excited by beautiful, immersive, story-driven games and interactive fiction. I enjoy messing around with esoteric ideas. I like explaining things.

reedbeta.com - developer blog, OpenGL demos, and other projects. @reedbeta on Twitter.

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Elegant solution for coloring chess tiles
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Optimizing gravity calculations
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Fades in older games. Need some help figuring out how the algorithm was derived
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Fixed-Function vs Shaders: Which for beginner?
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Understanding Perlin Noise
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Determining Poker Hands
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<Subtype>Designer</Subtype> Added then removed by Visual Studio on load/unload
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GLSL - one-pass gaussian blur
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Curious Transparent Holes Render Artifact
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Why aren't tangent space normal maps completely blue?
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What features do basic particle engines have?
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How to handle multiple story threads in a RPG game?
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Why do most game devs prefer OGL for OS X and D3D for Windows?
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100 points between 0-1000 on an increasing scale
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What does the graphics card do with the fourth element of a vector as the final position?
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Deferred shading - how to combine multiple lights?
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Fast pixelshader 2D raytracing
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Sharing functions across multiple shaders
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Why would typeof(T) kill performance?
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Is there a design flaw when an entity's state doesn't fully utilize enter(), execute() and exit()?
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In a 2D tile-based game, how should NPCs and tiles reference each other?
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Changing water color based on depth
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Using multiple shaders
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Directx11 / Tessellation
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How do I use threads together with DirectX11?
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Why are some games using some dithering pattern instead of traditional alpha for transparency?
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DirectX11, how do I manage and update multiple shader constant buffers?
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Running geometry shader only once
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Programatically replace color gradient on sprite
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First time shadow mapping problems
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