Curiosity Stream #1

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February 2023

Curiosity Stream is a monthly blog article where I collect together all my links to interesting things... stuff that has piqued my interest for whatever reason. Sure, I could bookmark these links or put them on some sort of To-Read list somewhere, but why not simply put them in an online article instead. Welcome to #1.

First up, a great video going through the rendering and physics tech of Teardown... so refreshing to see a different approach and a bespoke engine. [LINK]

And as a bonus, the blog written by Dennis Gustafsson, the coder behind the renderer & physics of Teardown. [LINK]

Thanks to Jendrik's Graphics Programming Weekly for this article with another breakdown of Teardown's rendering technology. [LINK]

Really good lecture series on learning Vulkan. [LINK]

Central resource collecting graphical breakdowns of games... what a goldmine... [LINK]

Another graphics goldmine from Inigo Quilez... [LINK]

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