b0rk: RT @D_M_Gregory: Visualizing floating point precision loss, or "why #gamedev stuff behaves badly far from the origin" The blue dot is…

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:18:32 +0000

b0rk: RT @D_M_Gregory: Visualizing floating point precision loss, or "why #gamedev stuff behaves badly far from the origin"

The blue dot is end of the desired vector. The black dot snaps to the closest representable point (in a simplified floating point grid with only 4 mantissa bits) https://t.co/o1HKYByIbS

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/D_M_Gregory/status/1044008750162604032