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by fragmede 253 days ago
Everything's just triangles and numbers, and my brain's no good with numbers. Linear algebra I can do though.
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Keyframe 253 days ago
Not always. Disregarding CSGs and parametrics, Nvidia itself was almost buried for not adhering to that philosophy with their first product https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NV1

funny side note. SEGA invested $5m in Nvidia then, after the fiasco to keep them alive. They sold that equity when Nvidia went IPO for roughly $15m. Have they kept it, it would be worth $3b today. SEGA's market cap is around $4b today.

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mouse_ 253 days ago
It's not the numbers that freak me out, it's what they do to each other...
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fragmede 253 days ago
eww...
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throwaway808081 253 days ago
People that love linear algebra reserve a special space, of either fondness or of hate, for Euclidian Space.
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spaceballbat 253 days ago
Funny nvidias first 3d accelerator used quaternions
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