Real-Time Normal Map DXT Compression I had change to read this paper recently, and found it's really helpful, not just for real-time normal map DXT compression, but also for normal map DXT compression both for Tangent and Object space.
Wrote a Piece of Piano Music I have been always driven by moderate creativity, which have been realized in the form of music or writing. My recent retro-adventure is music. So I have been playing piano for about 3 months now and I wrote my first piano song (well first song in the last 10 years, to be precise). I'm pretty happy with it, and people around me like it a lot too.
Photoshop Blends in sRGB Space, Not in Linear First for those people who are not familiar with Gamma, sRGB and Linear Spaces, here is a good presentation explaining all of these: Picture Perfect: Gamma through the Rendering Pipeline
Inconsiderate People I have never liked inconsiderate people who always want to be the center of the universe in everyone's life. Please realize that that very important things in your mind have no meaning to other people, 9 out of 10 times.
If You Are Still Chasing Your Dream after 5 Years or So If you find yourself chasing your dream, failing to achieve it, after 5 years or so since you seriously started to try, here is a short list of things you need to think about in order:
Kidding Ourselves It's either one of two. We are either doing something for our future or doing something to believe we are doing something for the future. Wait, there is a third case too: simply not doing anything whatsoever.
Only Skills Should Talk I'm one of those people who truly believe in skills. In other words, I do not like talkers, backstabber, or anyone who tries to climb up the food chain by playing politics. Those people disgust me pretty well, and if I see a place where those people are allowed, I tend to question the place, too.
Vancouver is Most Livable City... Really? Some organization in U.K named Vancouver as the most livable city in world. According to the article, it was based on these five categories:
Pleased with the Lastest Google Chrome I've been using Google Chrome as my primary web browser because of its minimalism. However, there was one thing that was somewhat pissing me off: it was always using the primary monitor's screen dimension as full-screen size, even if the window is on my second monitor, which has a smaller resolution than my primary one.