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Tips & Tricks, page 3:

Game Graphics 101: Textures, UV Mapping, and Texture Filtering

posted September 19, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Size-wise, textures are HUGE. Actually, in a typical 3D game, 90%+ of the space on disk (and of GPU bandwidth/RAM) are used by textures.”
Another Quote:	“3D anti-aliasing algorithms can be divided into two large groups: ‘proper’ anti-aliasing (the one which tries to avoid anti-aliasing in the first place), and ‘post-processing’ anti-aliasing (the one which creates an aliased image – and then post-processes it to make it look better).”
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posted September 6, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“for the purposes of the MOG network communications, I usually suggest using Euler angles to represent rotations/orientations”
Another Quote:	“One thing which persistently haunts 3D developers, is polygon count.”
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posted August 29, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Using 3D engine can improve your 2D picture dramatically.”
Another Quote:	“Strictly speaking, “shader” is a program which is executed for each “vertex” or each “pixel””
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posted August 16, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“If you’re using double buffering AND perform buffer swap in sync with the V-Sync signal, your monitor will show your game just as a movie projector with shutter would show a cartoon in the cinema”
Another Quote:	“I’ve seen a pretty minimal 2D engine written from scratch at a cost of 4-6 person-weeks”
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posted August 8, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“when trying to scale vector image to VERY small pixel sizes – you might get problems”
Another Quote:	“Internally, JPEG uses a close cousin of a Fourier Transform, which works over 8×8 pixel blocks.”
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posted July 18, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“as much as iOS is a device identification nightmare, Android is a device identification paradise.”
Another Quote:	“Everybody makes occasional mistakes, cheaters/abusers included.”
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posted July 11, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“NEVER EVER use IPv4 for long-term bans”
Another Quote:	“If using MAC addresses to identify devices, you SHOULD gather stats on repeating MAC addresses within your DB”
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