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Despite being a very serious language, Python is full of Easter eggs and hidden references. This post shows the top 5: Hello World… The Zen of Python Antigravity C-Style braces instead of indentation...
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The previous post in this series, Understanding Deep Dreams, explained what deep dreams are, and what they can be used for. In this second post you’ll learn how to create them, with a step by step...
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This post shows how to use arrays and shaders in Unity 5.4. Back in January I already covered this topic in an article called Arrays & shaders: Heatmaps in Unity. My original approach exposed an...
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In a previous post, How To Integrate Arduino With Unity, we have shown how data can be sent and received through the serial port. The main problem encountered was dealing with the latency and the...
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View ArticleNested Coroutines in Unity
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View ArticleTentacle Suckers Shader
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View ArticleGPU Sorting
This article introduces the concept of parallel sorting, discussing the theory and implementation of a shader that can sort pixels. You can read the full series here: Part 1. GPU Sorting Part 2. GPU...
View ArticleImproving Floating-Point Precision in C#
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View ArticleInverse Kinematics in 3D
This tutorial will teach you how to master inverse kinematics in 3D: the technique that solves the problem of moving a robotic arm to reach for a specific target. You can read the rest of this online...
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View ArticleMinecraft Modding: Throwable Fireballs
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View ArticleMinecraft Modding: Laser Gun
While guns are not terribly interesting, this tutorial will cover one rather tricky thing to do in Minecraft, which is often associated with guns: raycasting. Simply put, this is the process of finding...
View ArticleSunrise Sort: The Forgotten Sorting Algorithm
This article is about an interesting, yet forgotten sorting algorithm: the Sunrise sort. It is possibly the only one to have a rather unusual property: it is fully unstable. Sorting has been a...
View ArticleThe Rise of AI Art
Over the past ten years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have steadily crept into the Art Industry. From Deepfakes to DALL·E, the impact of these new technologies can be longer...
View ArticleUnity 4D #3: Rendering 4D Objects
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View ArticleUnity 4D #4: Creating 4D Objects
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