BETA
Chapter 1
Flattening the third dimension
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Chapter 2
Painting with virtual light
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Chapter 3
Tricking the brain with depth
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Chapter 4
The brain's clever shortcuts
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Seeing 3D in video games
Ch 4 · The brain's clever shortcuts
diegoplays Match the perspective lines to learn how video games trick your eyes into seeing 3D.
diegoplays Video Game 3D Illusions
The world behind you is gone until you turn around
diegoplays Adding artificial streaks of blur to fast-moving objects makes game motion feel smoother.
diegoplays Games save processing power by reducing the detail of distant objects when you aren't looking closely.
Fun Fact
Horizon's hidden world: In games like Horizon Zero Dawn, the world behind your character doesn't exist until you turn around to look.
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At what minimum frame rate does the human brain generally begin to perceive individual images as fluid motion?
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What is the term for the visual distraction when a player notices a lower-polygon model suddenly swap to a high-polygon one?
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Why do console games sometimes use dynamic resolution scaling during intense action scenes?
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What is the name of the optimization trick where a game engine completely stops rendering objects behind the player?
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What graphics technique calculates velocity vectors to smear fast-moving pixels across the screen?
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In Horizon Zero Dawn, how is the game world managed when the camera spins around?
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Who described the concept of Level of Detail (LOD) rendering for computer graphics in 1976?