As it often is with blogs, mine contains all kinds of posts – brief and detailed, personal and those which might prove useful to a larger crowd. Splitting these works into categories helps a little bit, but quality articles and studies can get lost over time.
Therefore, for those interested in a (hopefully) good read, entertainment or an advice, here are the posts I consider worthy of your time and attention.
💡 3DCG Studies
- High-Quality Cloth Simulation With Nvidia Physx Flex (Also Softimage Ice)
(also at NVIDIA GameWorks) - Nvidia Physx Flex and Other Fluid Solvers for High-Quality Fluid Simulation
- Dynamic Sloshing Liquid Rig. Making It Look Like a Simulation With Nothing but the Awesome Power of Math. Part 1: The Basic Rig
- Using Cloth Simulation and Delta Mush Deformer for Skin Collision in Animation
- Getting Ready for the First Production Mocap Session and Some Motion Capture Examples
- Perception Neuron Inertial Motion Capture vs Optical Mocap Systems and the First Production Motion Capture Session Experience
📖 Technology Guides
- Unity and Unreal Engine: Real-Time Rendering VS Traditional 3DCG Rendering Approach (HOT!)
- Reality Check. What Is NVIDIA RTX Technology? What Is DirectX DXR? Here's What They Can and Cannot Do
- Putting "Smart" Into Smart Devices: Enter the World of Microcontrollers With WiFi and Bluetooth. Learn to Build Your Own Smart Devices Using Off-The-Shelf Components
🏋 Health and Fitness
- A Full Year of Fitness with Ring Fit Adventure. Results and Tips and Tricks on How to Get the Most out of Your Workouts (HOT!)
- Power Walking With Weights. A Comprehensive Look at How Weighted Power Walking Can Boost Fitness, Increase Strength and Enhance Your Quality of Life
- Get Your Body Ready for Motion Capture With 8 Minute Workouts
🎮 Fun and Games
- Deep, Meaningful and possibly Life-Changing story-driven games everyone should play regardless of previous gaming experience [no spoilers] (HOT!)
- Genshin Impact, GACHA and The Case of an Inferior Electronic Sticker Album
- Short and Sweet Ring Fit Adventure Review, Some Nintendo Switch Notes, and What the Hell Happened to Unity Engine!?
- A Full Year of Fitness with Ring Fit Adventure. Results and Tips and Tricks on How to Get the Most out of Your Workouts (a follow-up)
🛠 Game Development
💾 Software
- Backup and Restore. Don't Delay! Secure Your Files With Freeware Backup Software Today
- Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk. Powerful, Event-Driven, Open-Source And Future-Proof Toolkit… From the Past?!
- Backup and Restore a Live Linux System Using Snapshots. How to Install Linux Mint 20 on an LVM Partition
- Looking for a Free Adobe Premiere Alternative? Meet Olive Video Editor!
- HDR Image Manipulation for Free With GIMP 2.9
- Making of Super Sonico School Swimsuit 3D Figure Set. Part 2: Choosing Sculpting Software
🧭 Advice and Trivia
- Recharge Your USB Flash Drive Today or Say Goodbye to the Files Tomorrow
- DRM or Die. How Anti-Consumer Practices Became the New Norm and the Consumers Are to Blame
- How to Survive Without a Numpad. Alt ♫ Code ☼ Emulation ♥ on Tenkeyless (TKL) and Laptop Keyboards With Autohotkey, the "Unix Way"
- Extreme Intel/AMD CPU and APU Underclocking and Undervolting For Maximum Battery Life Using Universal x86 Tuning Utility
- ✈ PIOSEE — Simple and Effective Decision-Making Model for Work & Personal Life (Plus a Free PDF Cheat Sheet)
- You Don't Know What You're Giving up When You Choose Debt Over Savings
- The Main Difference Between a Normal User and a Power User
- Relentless Consumption Does Not a Human Make
- David Eagleman on How Your Brain and Your Body Are the Drivers for Your Consciousness
📢 Critique and Marketing Analysis
- Questionable Design of the Final Fantasy XV Female Mechanic Cindy (HOT!)
- Twitch 2019: Reaching Levels of Hypocrisy That Should Not Be Possible
- Oh, Samsung... You Truly Are the Most Laughable Copycat of All Copycats
- YouTube, Dislikes and How the World Is Losing a Valuable Source of Critically Assessed Information
- The Genius of Sonic the Hedgehog Live-Action Movie Viral Marketing Campaign — Popularity by Bad Publicity
- EA Games FIFA 19. A Failed Paid Reviews Extravaganza and Why You Should Never Trust Popular Game and Entertainment Media
- A Lesson in Creativity. Gal*Gun 2