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The Geometry Behind Normal Maps

https://www.shlom.dev/articles/geometry-behind-normal-maps/
38•betamark•1h ago

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zduoduo•1h ago
Great article on tangent spaces! Could you explain how UV distortion affects tangent vector calculation in more detail?
gm678•9m ago
Another great reference on this: https://3dreference.notion.site/Texture-Types-15aef4826bf04d...

Note that normal maps are still widely used in PBR workflows. The article doesn't mention them, but older renderers tended to use diffuse, specular, normal maps, and modern asset creation typically involves albedo, roughness/smoothness, metalness, and ambient occlusion maps in addition to normal maps for textures.

Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012
405•bertman•5h ago•230 comments

Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/metas-chief-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-depart-and-launch-ai-start-fo...
584•MindBreaker2605•8h ago•395 comments

The Geometry Behind Normal Maps

https://www.shlom.dev/articles/geometry-behind-normal-maps/
38•betamark•1h ago•2 comments

What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-transmeta-the-last-big-dotcom-ipo/
104•onename•6h ago•44 comments

Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting

https://heydingus.net/blog/2025/11/micro-blog-offers-an-indie-alternative-to-youtube-with-its-stu...
16•justin-reeves•2h ago•1 comments

Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

https://www.ntp.org/
255•gastonmorixe•7h ago•179 comments

Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

https://twitter.com/omar_quraishi/status/1988518627859951986
282•wg0•4h ago•87 comments

Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy

https://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasion
81•meetpateltech•1h ago•56 comments

Fungus in Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone has mutated to 'feed' on radiation

https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/fungus-chernobyl-mutated-feed-radiation-164735-20241217
20•thunderbong•38m ago•16 comments

Laptops with Stickers

https://stickertop.art/main/
531•z303•1w ago•555 comments

A Vision of Chocolate's Future in an Amsterdam Brownie

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-opinion-future-of-chocolate/
38•laurex•5d ago•20 comments

X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/593/20251111-x5-1-solar-flare-g4-geomagnetic-storm-...
364•sva_•18h ago•104 comments

Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing

https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/05/bluetooth-6-2-gets-more-responsive-improves-security-usb-...
176•zdw•6d ago•106 comments

Seaque Live Bell Test

https://research.physics.illinois.edu/QI/Photonics/SEAQUE/
8•EvgeniyZh•1w ago•0 comments

I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

https://james.belchamber.com/articles/blood-pressure-monitor-reverse-engineering/
304•jamesbelchamber•18h ago•105 comments

Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022)

https://www.patrickcelentano.com/blog/planet-sim-part-1
93•Doches•8h ago•13 comments

Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/11/odd-places-to-see-londons-roman-wall.html
232•zeristor•17h ago•75 comments

.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

https://avaloniaui.net/blog/net-maui-is-coming-to-linux-and-the-browser-powered-by-avalonia
277•vyrotek•16h ago•222 comments

Perkeep – Personal storage system for life

https://perkeep.org/
267•nikolay•12h ago•53 comments

The terminal of the future

https://jyn.dev/the-terminal-of-the-future
271•miguelraz•19h ago•139 comments

Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

https://pikaday.dbushell.com
263•mnemonet•1d ago•115 comments

The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed

https://steveblank.com/2025/11/11/the-department-of-war-just-shot-the-accountants-and-opted-for-s...
246•ridruejo•1d ago•402 comments

Stochastic computing

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/stochastic-computing/
39•emmelaich•1w ago•4 comments

A modern 35mm film scanner for home

https://www.soke.engineering/
235•QiuChuck•19h ago•177 comments

The history of Casio watches

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1970s/
280•qainsights•3d ago•144 comments

FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/
1041•CrankyBear•21h ago•768 comments

Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-nietzsche-matters-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/
147•pseudolus•15h ago•94 comments

My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi

https://ellis.codes/blog/my-fan-worked-fine-so-i-gave-it-wi-fi/
206•woolywonder•6d ago•75 comments

Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to redefine software dev

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/meticulous/3197ae3d-bb26-4750-9ed7-b830f640515e
1•Gabriel_h•18h ago

Heroku Support for .NET 10

https://www.heroku.com/blog/support-for-dotnet-10-lts-what-developers-need-know/
103•runesoerensen•17h ago•34 comments