That video reminded me of a visit we made many years ago to an art museum in Aus where several rooms were painted white and everyone was issued with circular coloured stickers thatyou could apply wherever you wanted…

Have you done that by collapsing one edge of a quadrilateral cubic bezier or just used a triangle?

IIRC (from Farin’s Curves and Surfaces in CAGD) you need to have maybe a quintic Bezier to get C1 continuity for a Bezier triangle (but I may be misremembering).

An interesting thing was that the Order Independent Translucency of DC (in the HW of PowerVR series 2) then appeared as an API feature in the PC version of DX.
However according to the grapevine it never got used because a) devs didn’t believe it or b) had to sort manually for non-PVR cards anyway 🤷‍♂️

I’m going to be so gutted if tomorrow’s (or day after) isn’t followed by:

youtu.be/huPB3T0v_uQ

Seems to be missing the jpeg-ish textures though.

I think I might still have the notebook with the memory map for the ‘trident’ prototype powerVR card.

I certainly made sure I tried out all the online coding test questions before I put them in the test set we used.

Opportunities galore to redub the likes of youtu.be/qv64gSHZJl8

I confess I do not miss standing beside a muddy pitch at 8ish on a wintery Sunday morning

The Beatless ?
Incandescent Zeppelin?
Crowded Shed?

Was tempted to go with

OBBA

My recollection is rusty, but think of it as a set of if/else statements. You have a conditional test and if it passes, (or fails etc) perform a given operation.

learnopengl.com/Advanced-Ope...

What don’t you understand?
Stencil buffers are there to allow you to do pixel level conditional rendering, eg “is this pixel inside an odd number of triangles” or “in a non-zero number” etc

Try computergraphics.stackexchange.com/q/5046 or

computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/12...

I sometimes wonder, since both No Cliche (devs of “Toy Commander”) and Kalisto, the developers of “Ultimate Race”, were French companies, whether there was any overlap of the teams. UltimateRace (bundled with many series 1 PowerVR cards) made a lot of use of modifier volumes for headlight effects

Loved “Toy Commander”. Apart from being a great game, I think (from observation of the shadow rendering) it must have been one of the few to make use of the modifier volumes.