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pookie@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'

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A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'

www.pcgamer.com

pookie@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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Ken Birdwell was all about "getting the lighting right."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/34328210

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    Everyone’s saying RGB is the problem, but what’s the alternative? CMYK?

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      The way I read about it they were merely talking about out gamma correction. Or HDR—>SDR mapping - I wouldn’t say the article is super clear.

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      Allow me to introduce you to the perceptually uniform color spaces, CIELAB, CIELUV and HSLuv, something I needed for a project I was working on a few years ago:

      https://programmingdesignsystems.com/color/perceptually-uniform-color-spaces/

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