Casey Muratori's Blog
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Printing Presses Are Giant GPUs
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28 Apr 2020
The more I learn about printing presses, the more they seem like giant GPUs.
Jittering Fonts in Photoshop with Prime Pussify
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18 Apr 2020
A Photoshop script for randomizing per-character font attributes on text layers.
Stable Filtering - Part 2
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25 Mar 2019
How to make a filter than can be implied an infinite number of times without producing artifacts and remain nearly indistinguishable from the original image.
Stable Filtering - Part 1
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5 Mar 2019
How to make a filter that can be applied millions of times without producing artifacts.
How to get clang++ to find link.exe
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23 Jan 2019
As of version 8.0.0, clang on Windows requires some gyrations if you want to tell it where link.exe is located.
How close is WinDBG Preview to an everyday debugger?
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9 Jan 2019
A look at what Microsoft has been doing to improve the usability of WinDBG, and what's still missing.
Killing the Walk Monster (2018)
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11 Oct 2018
My BICFest 2018 lecture overview of the movement system I developed for The Witness.
The Thirty-Million-Line Problem (2015)
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21 May 2018
A lecture from 2015 that argues for moving away from drivers and toward ISAs.
Papers I Have Loved (2016)
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5 Feb 2018
A lecture from the 2016 Papers We Love conference about papers that proved inspirational to new work.
How to Open a Black Box (2007)
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5 Feb 2018
A look back at the development of normal mapping technology as a motivating example of why understanding concepts at a deep level is important for game engine programming.
Are register names still useful?
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18 Dec 2016
Why do CPUs still take instruction streams encoded with register names?
Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.
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24 Aug 2016
An e-mail I wrote to a Stanford Law student a long time ago who asked me why programmers thought software patents were bad.
Quaternions, Double-cover, and the Rest Pose Neighborhood (2006)
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12 May 2016
An old makeshift tech video I recorded about a special property of quaternions and how to use it to your advantage.
Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces (2005)
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12 May 2016
An old makeshift tech video I recorded introducing the concept of "IMGUI" - the Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interface.
Implementing GJK (2006)
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12 May 2016
An old makeshift video I recorded about how to implement the GJK collision detection algorithm.
Fixing Multi-monitor and Multi-window OpenGL on Windows
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6 Feb 2016
A simple proposal for a wgl extension that makes multi-monitor and multi-window output on Windows clean and simple.
The Worst API Ever Made
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6 Aug 2014
A call-by-call look at context switch logging with the Event Tracing for Windows API.
Designing and Evaluating Reusable Components (2004)
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30 Jul 2014
An in-depth look at the five core principles of API design.
Lister Panel Q&A
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23 Jul 2014
Questions and answers from last week's post on The Witness's lister panel.
The Source Code
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16 Jul 2014
The complete source code to The Witness's lister panel implementation.
Lister Panel Demonstration
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9 Jul 2014
A brief video showing how the lister panel works in The Witness.
Displaying Groups Hierarchically
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2 Jul 2014
Making some simple changes to the lister panel code so that its display could show a hierarchy.
Special Filters
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25 Jun 2014
Implementing lister panel filtering for arbitrary entity characteristics.