I am a software developer who is enthusiastic about many subjects, including algorithms, computer graphics, analog/digital electronics, science, and engineering.
I use this space to organize my thoughts on various subjects, which may be incomplete or inaccurate, but may still have value for those willing to excercise a bit of skepticism.
Source code for all demos can be found here.
Strafe jumping is a movement technique developed in some of the earliest first-person games which involves continuously adjusting your angle of acceleration to bypass in-game speed limits. Originally considered a bug or defect, it has been adopted by both players and game developers to provide an additional element of skill and depth to these games. Strafe jumping may be considered an early example of emergent gameplay in modern 3D games.
This web application enables any player to learn this skill quickly and easily.
A small application to determine a display’s approximate transfer curve using a series of test patterns.
Scroll up or down to match brightness, then click to move onto the next pattern.
Results will be displayed in a graph with ideal sRGB and Rec. 709/2020 curves for reference.