Portrait of John Carmack
Computation

John Carmack

Real-Time 3D Worlds

Respect the machine’s limits; partition space, approximate lighting, and cache repeated work. Turn an ordinary PC into a living 3D world.

“Low-level programming is good for the programmer’s soul.”

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