punished dankwraith @dankwraith@monads.online

if your first interaction with me ever is gonna be insulting me in the replies at least try to be original so i can have a chuckle before i block you and completely forget your sad and meaningless existence

i have released MoonTools.Core.Graph, a free graph theory library for .NET Core

- designed for use in games
- garbage collector friendly
- implements commonly used algorithms like A* search for pathfinding
- supports multigraphs

https://www.nuget.org/packages/MoonTools.Core.Graph/

licensed under LGPL 3

just released Bonk, an open source collision detection library for MonoGame Core. this is the tool we are using for collision detection on Samurai Gunn 2

- extremely modular design
- implements line, circle, rectangle, and convex polygons
- spatial hash for broad phase
- GJK for narrow phase
- EPA for separating vector
- 0 heap allocations (no garbage collection)

https://www.nuget.org/packages/MoonTools.Core.Bonk/

licensed under LGPL 3

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MONADS.ONLINE HAS RETURNED FROM THE GRAVE

i lowkey want to release source for samurai gunn 2 at some point but i know that would mean dealing with ten thousand armchair programmers telling me im a shithead

monads online is a benevolent dictatorship. i am its platonic philosopher king

people act like special relativity is this galaxy brain shit but even a 5th grader could understand it if it was explained properly. thats why its so cool. i wonder what other crazy ideas linger just under our noses

thinking about when i did a thread sunmarizing special relativity... all those posts lost... like tears in the rain

writing a renderer that simulates relativistic effects of the speed of light

dammit i got terms backwards again

ray CASTING - the camera projects to calculate color
ray TRACING - the camera simulates the reception of light

interestingly, in ancient Greek optics it was thought that vision was the result of the eye projecting light...

in old 3d games like doom, the color of a pixel is chosen by projecting a ray from the position of the camera into the scene and then sampling a color based on a texture pattern on the object it collides with. this can be done incredibly quickly on modern hardware and it still looks pretty cool imo

raycasting, the process of actually simulating the movement of light to render 3d, is only recently becoming feasible for general purpose use but it is still uncommon

lighting is an essential component of a 3d scene. light may appear to be casted on to objects in a scene but this is an illusion. information about the lights in the scene is passed to an object's shader. the shader determines how many lights and of which types can be applied to an object. light isnt actually being cast - the objects are just drawing themselves according to positions and intensities of the lights they are aware of and the angles of their 3d faces.