NervousText in AR, 25 years later
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This is going to be a quick post, with some background history. If you want to get right to the code, just scroll down to the 2nd part.The BeginningAlmost 25 years ago, when I was a strapping young lad in college, I was put in charge of a small computer lab. The lab housed about half a dozen Sun mainframes and an SGI Indigo. That Silicon Graphics machine was where I first cut my teeth in the world of 3D. I learned about GL (IrisGL, in particular, it’s own version of GL before OpenGL was a thing), vertex orders and how to put a triangle on a screen. All very exciting stuff in the early 90’s and something most people weren’t exposed to.I was curious about everything. I learned low level Unix #programming, building socket-based multicasting applications (hey, I had a whole lab of machines that (...)