visualization components for future use

https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery

ack to Marissa Du Bois for the pointer. 

Phrases that make you sound weak..but sometimes isn't that exactly the goal?

 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/07/overused-words-and-phrases-that-make-you-sound-weak-less-confident-according-to-grammar-experts.html

Game market, game ecosystem stats

 https://www.wepc.com/news/video-game-statistics/

row major and column major major confusion

Capturing for posterity:

TL;DR: C is row major, XMMATRIX* is row major, HLSL is column major. 

A comment here explains rationale:

https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/649263-matrix-multiplication-order/

And you can tell HLSL to flip to row major.

Buffers

 read this: http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=1260

D3D Feature Levels

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d12/hardware-feature-levels

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/new-in-directx-feature-level-12_2/

https://walbourn.github.io/direct3d-feature-levels/

 

3D Math overview with camera xforms

 https://gamemath.com/book/graphics.html#rendering_equation

DX12 SDK Samples compilation: error C2102: '&' requires l-value

This error:

error C2102: '&' requires l-value

Can be resolved by setting the flag:

Configuration Properties->C/C++->Language->Conformance Mode->No

Instead of Yes (permissive)

Feynman quote

 i will do something with this later:

The problem often is not people being uneducated.

The problem is frequently that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Professor Richard Feynman

fun with HLSL memory barriers

 Great description/clarifications on HLSL memory barriers:
https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectX-Graphics-Samples/issues/140