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skvjon How the SNES Graphics System Works

excellent SNES PPUs overview, also reading part 2: https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_ppus_why/

that's a great demo and UI. if you like 3d cellular automata, here's a 3d cellular automata voxel shader: https://github.com/kchapelier/cellular-automata-voxel-shader

skvjon Ditherpunk – The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (2021)

Agreed on one of the best introductions to dithering.

Shadertoy has also been a good site to quick experiment with dithering using shader code: https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=tag%3Ddithering

skvjon High Performance Browser Networking

A gem of a book, and not just for web browser networking, but a good read for web networking in general.

skvjon Show HN: InventHub – Visual version control for electronics design

Looks fantastic, congrats on the launch. Using git for versioning and PCB development has been nearly unworkable. So nice to see a visually-oriented solution.

skvjon Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space

Here's a great illustration of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 outside of the heliosphere: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-voyager-2-probe-en...

skvjon Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia

Vulkan (MoltenVK) does seem to be a valid option for those heavily invested or interested in porting existing OpenGL projects (I plan on evaluating it): https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

skvjon Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator

great work! a little simpler minus the triangle conversion, have you seen the openFrameworks chapter for generating mesh from color saturation values? https://openframeworks.cc/ofBook/chapters/generativemesh.htm...

skvjon Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator

polylabel looks great, thank you

skvjon Show HN: Applying the Unix philosophy to neural networks

Great concept. Would like to see more of this idea applied to neural network processing and configuration in general (which in my experience can sometimes be a tedious, hard-coded affair).

skvjon Princeton IoT Inspector: discovers IoT devices and analyzes network traffic

Great idea, however would be great to see an option which used the dataset but did not upload your data.

I've read the "FAQ Why must IoT Inspector upload the data to Princeton?" and do understand the reasons for data collection, maybe once it reaches a data saturation point this new option could be introduced (I believe there is a “Start/Pause Inspection” button but that seems to only temporarily pause collection).

Naturally, there's going to be some reluctance in using and deploying a tool that uploads data to an outside party.

skvjon Medieval Fantasy City Generator

If you can't seem get enough of procedural generation, 'procjam' has even more great past entries https://itch.io/jam/procjam2017#entries