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From time to time I'm going to be posting a collection of cool links to gamedev-related stuff that I found on the internet over the last couple of weeks. This is the first post in that series.
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Digital Filters<\/h4>\n

Introduction to Digital Filters<\/a> is a free online book by Julius O. Smith III. It's a fairly easy read and serves as a great introduction to the theory. The main page<\/a> of his site has some other cool online books too, in particular one on the Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform<\/a>.
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smallpt<\/h4>\n

smallpt<\/a>is a Monte Carlo path tracer in 99 lines of C++ written by Kevin Beason. It comes with source and a cool presentation that explains all 99 lines in detail.
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Calibrating Lighting and Materials in Far Cry 3<\/h4>\n

There were lots of great real-time graphics courses at SIGGRAPH this year. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend this year. However, most of the slides are online. Stephen Hill is keeping a great link collection<\/a> to all SIGGRAPH talks. One talk that I liked in particular, is Steve McAuley's Calibrating Lighting and Materials in Far Cry 3<\/a> from the Practical Physically Based Shading in Film and Game Production<\/a>course.
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Technical Links Collection<\/h4>\n

This is a large collection<\/a> to all sorts of technical resources on the web, most of them game development-related.
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JavaScript Resources<\/h4>\n

While searching for some ways to improve my not very leet JavaScript skills, I stumbled across this great site<\/a> that has free online books for JavaScript (and some CoffeeScript) development for programmers of all skill levels. Pretty neat! Another good resource for the beginning JavaScript programmer is a blog post called How to Learn JavaScript Properly<\/a> on the\u00a0JavaScript.is(Sexy)<\/a>blog. Apparently, it helped the author's 13-year old daughter learn JavaScript.
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BananaBread<\/h4>\n

BananaBread<\/a> is a first person shooter originally written in C++ and OpenGL but then ported to HTML5, JavaScript, and WebGL via Emscripten<\/a>. It comes with full source code and is licensed under the BSD license. Pretty interesting. Runs in recent versions of Google Chrome and Firefox.
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Rapid Game Editor<\/h4>\n

ZGameEditor<\/a> is a visual editor for creating small-sized (as in kilobytes) games, demos, and screensavers using procedural techniques. It's also open source.
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Windows x64 ABI<\/h4>\n

Rick Skorski has been posting an interesting, ongoing series on the x64 ABI on Windows over at AltDevBlogADay<\/a>:<\/p>\n