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Elbows and knees are even weirder!

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Inspired by Esteban's final project, I've been poking the ray tracer over break. A couple weeks ago I hacked out a few constructive solid geometry operations: union, intersect, and inverse. Yesterday in the airport/plane, and today stuck in a hotel in Tulare with nothing to do outside official practice hours, I added random procedural textures.

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That's the closest to a wood texture I've gotten so far, but considering how many parts I had to hack at before I could even test changes - and the two different code designs I went through before settling on this one - I'm surprised it works.

But, what hotel? What am I actually doing?

I'm in Tulare for the State Indoor archery tournament. The drive up was a whole lot faster than I'd expected, and the hotel has free wireless. We're about three-five minutes from the barn range, and first round starts at 1 tomorrow. There was an hour of practice this afternoon (during which I shot fairly miserably) and twenty minutes before official start tomorrow, but other than that it's just me and sixty shots, then sixty more on Sunday. I have bagels and juice boxes for breakfast, and Albertsons, Subway, KFC, Burger King, and Apple Annie's all within walking distance.

Outside, the fog is dense and thick and smells of cows. It looks cool, at least.

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