On: How video games use lookup tables

[ggambetta]

I remember the days of resticting rotation accuracy to 360/256ths of a degree so it would fit on a byte, which then would be an index into trig lookup tables :)

[Jevon23 → ggambetta]

I miss the days when professional software development was more akin to this sort of thing, rather than gluing together 20 Javascript frameworks on top of someone else's cloud infrastructure.

[ggambetta → Jevon23]

I'm with you. The current thing really isn't fun anymore :(

[djmips → ggambetta]

haha yes, we used 2π / 256 and we called them brads (binary radians).