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Saves Computing Power By Transcending To The 4th Dimension

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Saves Computing Power By Transcending To The 4th Dimension

Left side: Regular 3D rotation math with sines and cosines. Complex but manageable if you've ever implemented a camera system. Right side: Quaternions. Four-dimensional math that makes rotation calculations significantly more efficient but looks like someone dropped acid while reading a linear algebra textbook. Game developers be like: "Yes, I understand quaternions perfectly" while secretly copy-pasting code from Stack Overflow and praying it doesn't introduce gimbal lock.

Three D Donut In C Tastes Good

Programming C Debugging Frontend

4 months ago 143.7K views 0 shares

Three D Donut In C Tastes Good

Non-programmers think we're building fancy 3D holograms of the Earth like we're some kind of tech wizards from a sci-fi movie. Meanwhile, the reality is us hunched over terminals writing ASCII donut code at 3AM, fueled by energy drinks and existential dread. The pinnacle of our achievement? Making a spinning donut in C that looks like it was rendered on a calculator from 1982. And we're absurdly proud of it. The gap between perception and reality has never been wider—or more delicious.