Should the Amiga be revived?

Every few years, we hear a story in the tech news about how some company is going to resurrect the Amiga computer, and I always have mixed feelings when this happens.

Certainly my own nostalgic feelings for the Amiga are strong; the years 1985–1992…

The technology behind Vortex: A real-time, browser-based, seamless texture generator

Vortex is a web-based program for generating seamlessly tileable textures for 3D modeling and games. It is entirely browser-based, written in TypeScript, and generates textures…

Why I’m not interested in Virtual Reality

For many reasons, I ought to be interested in VR. For one thing, I work in the computer graphics field, and there’s a ton of excitement around developing new content for VR. And also because I was a game programmer for 25 years.

An alliance between humans and AIs

Science fiction authors have been telling tales about robots and computers since long before they were available to the general public. Some of the earliest stories are those written by Isaac Asimov, in which he introduced his famous “three laws of robotics”. Since…