Makes me happy, found this 
Creating a 4D World: The Technology behind
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so similar to my old article
http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?topic=29604.0
p.s and no he not use my idea, he have working prototype in 2009, we simple try some same crazy idea ^^
Hi guys! Iām looking for best testers for my android game.
I would like to know your opinions / suggestions.
Link: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.sortandsequence.android
Today, I discovered an ancient manuscript titled āOn Shadowsā.
Haha, just kidding This (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ravir/6160/papers/p270-williams.pdf), unless I am very much mistaken, is the original research paper on shadow mapping. I just skimmed through it. Itās just so weird to read a research paper thatās more than a decade old on a technique thatās STILL widely used today. I was actually reading a paper on screen-space directional occlusion and this olā paper was cited, lol. And this paper was written, like, 24 years before I was even born!
The guy who wrote this paper (Lance Williams) is the same guy who invented mipmapping. A true genius!
Have fun reading 
Interesting video:
In case 60 min video is long for you:
Guy works for Microsoft 15 years was fired in 2014 with thousand other ppls
And now have own popular youtube channel
[spoiler](Because Microsoft dismiss āTest departmentā so all testing do End Users XD)[/spoiler]
up:
IMHO: [spoiler]
So as you understand after dismiss Test department in 2014
all Microsoft product have Unstable patchās and releaseās ^^
It so strange that it happen in same time,
as some ppl decide that: ātrow away $2.5 billion in a windowā is smart decision,
I canāt say that these events are interconnected,
but $2.5 billion did not appear out of thin air,
And 18000 people has been fired 
(pplās that work many years for company)[/spoiler]
Just listened to an iteresting discussion on zeno paradoxes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07vs3v1
Starts after 2 mins.
Edit: should work now
The link seems to be broken?
Just replace [icode]bbcradio4%20http[/icode] with [icode]http:[/icode] in the url and it works In case youāre too lazy: here
Today I set up Amazon SES and Sendy on Puppygames as we prepare to move our mailing list from YMLP over to our own Sendy based solution. Weāve got 100k double-opt-in subscribers on our mailing list. Itāll now cost a couple of bucks to do a mail shot instead of a few hundred with YMLP.
Sendy isā¦ difficult to set up. Amazon stuff isā¦ also difficult.
Cas
What I did today (and yesterday!): Played around with Physically Based Rendering (PBR) in Blender.
All within a āmasterfileā that has all the shaders I ever made (or will make).
@Longor1996 this looks really cool!
On another note, Iāve been spending the day trying to create an abstract way of detecting and handling 2D collisions between moving convex polygonsā¦ The way shapes are defined in the [icode]java.awt[/icode] package really isnāt helping, either. I feel like Iām constantly juggling between [icode]java.awt.Shape[/icode], [icode]java.awt.geom.PathIterator[/icode] and [icode]java.awt.geom.Area[/icode]ā¦ In the end, I may very well delete everything and start again from scratch, this time using my own definition of a polygon instead of relying on these classes, but this seems a little complicated. Would anyone know of a good paper on the subject? Most of what I found either concerns rectangles only, or deals with collision detection but not collision handling, which is, imo, the difficult part.
J0
Today at work I wrote a util to translate HTML entities into XML entities. The fun just keeps on keeping on!
Today IBM announced open sourcing their JDK.
me vs. unsigned long long int - 1:0
\o/
unsigned long long?
Did you know that an [icode]unsigned long long triple double short char[/icode] can be between 1 and 573.5 bytes depending on the hardware?
I prefer my [icode]unsigned long long triple double short char[/icode] 572 bytes only thankyouverymuch.
Browsing the source code of [icode]java.awt.Polygon[/icode]ā¦
public Rectangle getBounds() {
return getBoundingBox();
}
@Deprecated
public Rectangle getBoundingBox() {
// snipped, irrelevant
}
Now I get that the second method is probably deprecated in order to change the name butā¦ I wonder if the entire source code is full of examples like this? :persecutioncomplex:
Sometimes you canāt change name because of legacy)
and [icode]getBounds();[/icode] is part of [icode]Shape interface[/icode]
What I meant is the fact that the new methods just points to the deprecated one, and that just sounds plain cheap.
=)
java.awt.Polygon was created in 1.0
in 1.2 it Implementing Interface Shape
Shape have getBounds
getBoundingBox canāt be removed or rename by legacy support ^^
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Polygon.html
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Shape.html
getBounds and getBoundingBox
have same code, do you really want duplicate it?
Yes this looks better
public Rectangle getBounds() {
// snipped, irrelevant
}
@Deprecated
public Rectangle getBoundingBox() {
return getBounds();
}
but in any case it devs decision how separate code
p.s and even Open source Java have many bugs (not this small code style mistakes)
same as other big companys products - its natural