Author Archives: mikolalysenko

Replication in networked games: Latency (Part 2)

Posted on February 17, 2014

The last post in this series surveyed replication in network games at a high level. In this article and the next, I want to go deeper into the issues surrounding replication. One of the most annoying aspects of online gaming is latency. … Continue reading →

Posted in Distributed systems, Programming | 5 Comments

Replication in networked games: Overview (Part 1)

Posted on February 10, 2014

It has been a while since I’ve written a post, mostly because I had to work on my thesis proposal for the last few months.  Now that is done and I have a bit of breathing room I can write … Continue reading →

Posted in Distributed systems, Programming | 6 Comments

Texture atlases, wrapping and mip mapping

Posted on July 9, 2013

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Posted in Miscellaneous | 17 Comments

Ambient occlusion for Minecraft-like worlds

Posted on July 3, 2013

It has been a while since I’ve written about Minecraft-like games, and so today I figured I’d take a moment to discuss something which seems to come up a lot in online discussions, specifically how to implement ambient occlusion in … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming, Voxels | 15 Comments

Relations are hard to model in category theory

Posted on June 4, 2013

WARNING: This is a somewhat rambling post about category theory.  If half-baked mathematical philosophy is not your thing, please consider navigating away right now. Anyway, the thing that I want to write about today is the difference between category theory … Continue reading →

Posted in Mathematics, Rambling | 2 Comments

ndarray modules

Posted on June 1, 2013

In the last two posts I introduced ndarrays, and explained the rationale and implementation details of the library.  In this post I am going to show a few of the libraries that I have written using ndarrays.  All of this … Continue reading →

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Cache oblivious array operations

Posted on May 28, 2013

I must confess that secretly the article I wrote last time (in which I introduced ndarrays) was just a pretext to introduce the stuff that I am going to write about today: which is the cwise library for array operations … Continue reading →

Posted in Mathematics, Programming | 3 Comments