I have Lengyel's book and it's great. Highly recommended.
I don't think Lengyel is criticizing anything for just being ugly. When he says something is janky, it's because there's something mathematically wrong/incorrect/broken with it.
Lengyel's post doesn't discuss the whole plane-based vs. point-based war at all, and he makes it clear in his book that both approaches are equivalent. He actually says both are happening at the same time whichever way…
Oh man, I didn't know there was going to be a special episode of Friday Night Smackdown!
I've had the misfortune of interacting with some of the engineers at CD Projekt Red in the course of my job in the past. There is a serious competence issue. It's not surprising in the slightest bit that they have this…
I have Lengyel's book and it's great. Highly recommended.
I don't think Lengyel is criticizing anything for just being ugly. When he says something is janky, it's because there's something mathematically wrong/incorrect/broken with it.
Lengyel's post doesn't discuss the whole plane-based vs. point-based war at all, and he makes it clear in his book that both approaches are equivalent. He actually says both are happening at the same time whichever way…
Oh man, I didn't know there was going to be a special episode of Friday Night Smackdown!
I've had the misfortune of interacting with some of the engineers at CD Projekt Red in the course of my job in the past. There is a serious competence issue. It's not surprising in the slightest bit that they have this…