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Nathan Reed
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3D rendering at Adobe, formerly at 343, Sucker Punch, and NVIDIA. Math and coding blog writer, sometime musician, sci-fi and physics nerd, cat dad, coffeeholic. He/him.

I teach computers how to make pretty pictures. I'm excited by the art of creating beautiful, immersive worlds and telling stories in them. I enjoy elegant ideas and explaining how things work.

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Does HDR rendering have any benefits if bloom won't be applied?
Oct 1, 2013
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Why are radians preferred over degrees in game development?
Dec 22, 2013
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How AAA games use this texture in the tone-mapping shader?
Mar 23, 2014
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What does ddx (hlsl) actually do?
Sep 24, 2013
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GLSL Light (Attenuation, Color and intensity) formula
Jun 6, 2013
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24-Bit Colordepth not enough?
Aug 20, 2013
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GLSL - one-pass gaussian blur
Apr 2, 2012
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Elegant solution for coloring chess tiles
Dec 5, 2012
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Is a Gaussian blur a fairly accurate representation of soft shadow edges?
Jun 28, 2014
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How do you author HDR content?
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