one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day:
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom"
Ecclesiastes 9:10
What were these students thinking?
I genuinely don't understand it.
From what I've seen, this doesn't look like a split-second mistake. It raises serious questions about planning, intent, and what they expected would happen after the fires were started.
I've never watched footage of an arson incident before, and it's difficult to comprehend how someone could knowingly start a fire in a dormitory full of students and not anticipate the potential consequences.
Perhaps there are facts investigators still need to uncover, but as things stand, I am struggling to make sense of it.
What do you think was going through their minds?
Mirrors in 007 look INSANELY clean.
But they’re NOT using pathtracing or raytracing.
They literally render the entire scene from a mirrored camera viewpoint and slap it onto the flat surface.
Perfect realtime reflections of Bond, his backpack, the whole room + lighting… all super efficient.
Same classic planar/render-to-texture trick used in Hitman and even GTA San Andreas back in the day.
It works smoothly on any hardware without the heavy cost of raytraced or pathtraced reflections.
Smarter than forcing pathtracing everywhere, right?