Carmack Doom3 paper

http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=robust_shadow_volumes

New Carmack plan-- apparently this link has a small paper concerning new Doom3 technology having to do with shadows

Ehh... Zaldron ?

It's really amazing if you've ever looked at the conventional way in which shadow volumes are done, which usually invovles a lot of convoluted testing for intersection with the view-frustum. His solutions is so wonderfully elegant. Glad the technical side of the new Doom game is in such capable hands!

Woah

I was shocked. I went from feeling pretty clever with my unbalanced
preloading algorithm (which I would only apply on surfaces that were likely
to intersect the view plane) to just feeling dumb that I had never seen the
trivial solution before.

Sounds like any coder I've met in my whole life, always finding stuff by mere luck ^_^