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