{"id":18832,"date":"2013-11-22T00:03:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T22:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18832"},"modified":"2013-11-22T00:03:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T22:03:26","slug":"john-carmack-talks-about-the-physics-of-light-and-rendering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/22\/john-carmack-talks-about-the-physics-of-light-and-rendering\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carmack talks about the physics of light and rendering"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>For a while now I am thinking that you don&#8217;t really know something until you can easily explain it or talk about it, in simple words and with people who might not even know one thing about the subject. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_D._Carmack\">John Carmack<\/a> is well known and respected in the field of computer graphics and gaming, and watch him talk about light and rendering! \u00a0I now nothing of it, and I watch this whole talk, glued to the screen, catching every word.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P6UKhR0T6cs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Apart from the physics of light, this provokes thought on other subjects too. \u00a0 The complexity of simple things comes to mind. \u00a0Something that we all observe every day and seldom think about &#8211; turns out to be so complex. \u00a0The importance of computer games is another subject. \u00a0I&#8217;m a big fan of Quake in particular, and I&#8217;ve heard a billion times people asking questions on why is this important at all and how this makes the world better. \u00a0Well, I guess, that question is easy to answer now. \u00a0Some game makers push the technology, push the science, and they do make the world better. \u00a0But they need us &#8211; gamers, once in a while, to pay for that and to provide feedback on what works and what doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>For a while now I am thinking that you don&#8217;t really know something until you can easily explain it or talk about it, in simple words and with people who might not even know one thing about the subject. \u00a0John Carmack is well known and respected in the field of computer graphics and gaming, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/22\/john-carmack-talks-about-the-physics-of-light-and-rendering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Carmack talks about the physics of light and rendering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11,18,62],"tags":[850,3234,3235,556,1161,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-games","category-programming","category-technology","tag-algorithms","tag-computer-graphics","tag-john-carmack","tag-quake","tag-visual-arts","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9262,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/24\/xxx-state-of-the-union\/","url_meta":{"origin":18832,"position":0},"title":"xXx: State of the Union","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I wasn't very eager to watch \"xXx: State of the Union\". 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