Watch this wonderful drawing and see how many people you can identify :)

Text below is just some guesses from me, ie. spoilers, so be sure to check the image first.

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Jawohl mein Fuhrer \o/

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Yeah, this is what happens if you can't be arsed to also carry a zoom with you ;)

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From Humus' blog: photo's of photographers. Funny stuff :)

Let's take a look at a technique for computing Global Illumination (GI) entirely on the graphics card. GI deals with the problem of letting light bounce around, just like it does in real life, so the light reaches nooks, crannies, and surfaces that are just generally not pointing straight at the light source.

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n/t

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I just discovered, by accident of course, that ctrl-delete is the same thing as ctrl-shift-rightarrow followed by delete. Cool!

It seems I can't take 5 pics without a hint of surrealism sneaking its way in there :)

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:)

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A couple years ago I bought the book Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose. In the first part, he uses Goedel's incompleteness theorem (and a bunch of other results about computability and things like the halting problem) to argue that the human mind cannot be the result of a straightforward computational Turing complete process. Which is an interesting position in and of itself, but naturally also leads to the question, if consciousness is embedded in reality (ie. you do not want to give up materialism completely), then what runs it? The answer is in the second half of the book, which I haven't read yet, but I just found this Google TechTalk by Stuart Hameroff, who worked with Penrose, that basically summarizes their answer. The big words fly by real fast, but it is an absolutely fascinating talk, if you dig this stuff. Youtube Tip of the week!

Hoppin' & bumpin' through the big city \o/

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Some interesting bits of downtown Vancouver.

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Here's a debug screenshot of my new 3D engine, showing both the shadow depth map values and resulting filtered shadows...

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Despite all the computers, rfid tags, automated warehouses and live tracking, our store sometimes gets deliveries that are for other shops.. And who knows where stuff we ordered but never got, actually ended up. But you know food production has truly become global when a Tom&Co shop in Kuurne, Belgium, suddenly receives this:...

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Some other curiosa from bumming around Ucluelet, to wrap up day, uh, three.

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