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+# Billboard
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+In [3D](3d.md) [computer graphics](graphics.md) billboard is a flat image placed in the scene that rotates so that it's always facing the camera. Billboards used to be greatly utilized instead of actual [3D models](3d_model.md) in old [games](game.md) thanks to being faster to render (and possibly also easier to create than full 3D models), but we can still encounter them even today and even outside retro games, e.g. [particle systems](particle_system.md) are normally rendered with billboards. Billboards are also commonly called *[sprites](sprite.md)*, even though that's not exactly accurate.
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+There are two main types of billboards:
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+- Ones **rotating only about vertical axis**, i.e. billboards that change only their [yaw](yaw.md), they only face the camera in a top-down view of the scene. Such sprite may deform on the screen (when the camera is at different height level) just like 3D models do and when viewed completely from above will disappear completely. This may in some situations look better than other options (e.g. in [games](game.md) enemies won't appear lying on their back when seen from above).
+- **Freely rotating** ones, i.e. ones that change all three [Euler angles](euler_angle.md) so that they ALWAYS face the camera from any possible angle. There may further be other two subtypes: billboards that align themselves with the camera's projection plane (they simply rotate themselves in the same way as the camera) which always end up on the screen as an undeformed and unrotated image, and billboards that face themselves towards the camera's position and copy the camera's [roll](roll.md) (though these may seem like two same things, they are not, for the latter we need to know the camera and billboard's positions, for the former we only need the camera's rotation). The former is simpler to implement and may also look better, so we normally don't even consider the latter.
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+Some billboards also choose their image based on from what angle they're viewed (e.g. an enemy in a game viewed from the front will use a different image than when viewed from the side, as seen e.g. in [Doom](doom.md)). Also some billboards intentionally don't scale and keep the same size on the screen, for example health bars in some games.
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+In older software billboards were implemented simply as image [blitting](blit.md), i.e. the billboard's scaled image would literally be copied to the screen at the appropriate position (this would implement the freely rotating billboard). Nowadays when rendering 3D models is no longer really considered harmful to performance and drawing pixels directly is less convenient, billboards are more and more implemented as so called [textured](texture.md) [quads](quad.md), i.e. they are really a flat square 3D model that may pass the same pipeline as other 3D models (even though in some frameworks they may actually have different [vertex shaders](vertex_shader.md) etc.) and that's simply rotated to face the camera in each frame (in [modern](modern.md) frameworks there are specific functions for this).
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+[Fun](fun.md) fact: in the old games such as [Doom](doom.md) the billboard images were made from photographs of actual physical models from clay. It was easier and better looking than using the primitive 3D software that existed back then.
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+## Implementation Details
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+The following are some possibly useful things for implementing billboards.
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+The billboard's position on the screen can be computed by projecting its center point in [world coordinates](world_space.md) with [modelview](modelview.md) and [projection](projection.md) matrices, just as we project vertices of 3D models.
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+The billboard's size on the screen shall due to [perspective](perspective.md) be multiplied by *1 / (tan(FOV / 2) * z)* where *FOV* is the camera's [field of view](fov.md) and *z* is the billboard's distance from camera's projection plane (which is NOT equal to the mere distance from the camera's position, that would create a [fisheye](fisheye.md) lens effect -- the distance from the projection plane can be obtained from the above mentioned [projection matrix](projection.md)). (If the camera's FOV is different in horizontal and vertical directions, then also the billboard's size will change differently in these directions.)
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+For billboards whose images depends on viewing angle we naturally need to compute the angle. We may do this either in 2D or 3D -- most games resort to the simpler 2D case (only considering viewing angle in a single plane parallel to the floor), in which case we may simply use the combination of [dot product](dot_product.md) and [cross product](cross_product.md) between the [normalized](normalization.md) billboard's direction vector and a normalized vector pointing from the billboard's position towards the camera's position (dot product gives the [cosine](cos.md) of the angle, the sign of cross product's vertical component will give the rest of the information needed for determining the exact angle). Once we have the angle, we [quantize](quantization.md) (divide) it, i.e. drop its precision depending on how many directional images we have, and then e.g. with a [switch](switch.md) statement pick the correct image to display. For the 3D case (possible different images from different 3D positions) we may first transform the sprite's 3D facing vector to [camera space](camera_space.md) with appropriate matrix, just like we transform 3D models, then this transformed vector will (again after quantization) directly determine the image we should use.
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+When implementing the free rotating billboard as a 3D quad that's aligning with the camera projection plane, we can construct the [model matrix](model_matrix.md) for the rotation from the camera's normalized directional vectors: *R* is camera's right vector, *U* is its up vector and *F* is its forward vector. The matrix simply transforms the quad's vertices to the coordinate system with bases *R*, *U* and *F*, i.e. rotates the quad in the same way as the camera. When using [row vectors](row_vector.md), the matrix is following:
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+```
+R.x R.y R.z 0
+U.x U.y U.z 0
+F.x F.y F.z 0
+0   0   0   1
+```

gay.md

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 # Gay
 
-Homosexuality is a disorder/disease which makes individuals sexually attracted primarily to the same sex. A homosexual individual is called gay, homo or faggot.
+Homosexuality is a disorder/disease which makes individuals sexually attracted primarily to the same sex. A homosexual individual is called gay, homo or faggot ([females](woman.md) are called lesbians).
 
 There is a terrorist fascist organization called [LGBT](lgbt.md) aiming to make gays superior to other people.
 

main.md

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 # Welcome To The Less Retarded Wiki
 
-*Love everyone, help selflessly.*
+*Love everyone, help [selflessly](selflessness.md).*
 
 Welcome to [Less Retarded Wiki](lrs_wiki.md), an encyclopedia only I can edit. But you can [fork](fork.md) it, it is [public domain](public_domain.md) under [CC0](cc0.md) :) Holy [shit](shit.md), I'm gonna get [canceled](cancel_culture.md) hard as soon as [SJWs](sjw.md) find out about this. Until then, let's enjoy the ride. THERE'S NO [MODERATION](moderation.md), I can do whatever I want here lol. I love this.
 
-This is a Wiki for [less retarded software](lrs.md) (LRS) and related topics, mainly those of politics and society which LRS should help achieve. LRS Wiki is a new, refreshing wiki without [political correctness](political_correctness.md).
+This is a Wiki for [less retarded software](lrs.md) (LRS) and related topics, mainly those of [politics](politics.md) and [society](society.md), idealization of which LRS should help achieve. LRS Wiki is a new, refreshing wiki without [political correctness](political_correctness.md).
 
 **We love all living beings. Even you.** We want to create technology that truly and maximally helps you.
 
 This wiki is **NOT** a satire.
 
+{ I no longer see any good in this world. This is my last attempt at preserving pure good, however at this point I am alone, it's just for myself in my completely isolated world. Perhaps my love will be shared with a reader far away, in space or time, even if I will never know him. This is the only way I can continue living. I wish you happy reading, my dear friend. ~drummyfish }
+
 **Before contributing please read the [rules & style](wiki_style.md)!** {But contributions aren't really accepted RN :) ~drummyfish }
 
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usenet.md

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 Usenet was the pre-[web](www.md) web, kind of like an 80s [reddit](reddit.md) which contained huge amounts of historical information and countless discussions of true computer [nerds](nerd.md) which are however not easily accessible anymore as there aren't so many archives, they aren't well indexed and Usenet access is normally paid. It's a shame. It is possible to find e.g. initial reactions to the [AIDS](aids.md) disease, people asking what the [Internet](internet.md) was, people discussing future technologies, the German cannibal (Meiwes) looking for someone to eat (which he eventually did), [Bezos](bezos.md) looking for [Amazon](amazon.md) programmers, a heated debate between [Linus Torvalds](torvalds.md) and [Andrew Tanenbaum](tanenbaum.md) about the best OS architecture (the "Linux is obsolete" discussion) or [Douglas Adams](douglas_adams.md) talking to his fans. There are also some politically incorrect groups like *alt.niggers* [lol](lol.md).
 
-{ I mean I don't remember it either, I'm not that old, I've just been digging on the Internet and in the archives, and I find it all fascinating. ~drummfish }
+{ I mean I don't remember it either, I'm not that old, I've just been digging on the Internet and in the archives, and I find it all fascinating. ~drummyfish }
 
-**Where to browse Usenet for free?** Search for Usenet archives, I've found some sites dedicated to this, also [Internet archive]  
-(internet_archive.md) has some newsgroups archived. [Google](google.md) has Usenet archives on a website called "Google groups".
+**Where to browse Usenet for free?** Search for Usenet archives, I've found some sites dedicated to this, also [Internet archive]  (internet_archive.md) has some newsgroups archived. [Google](google.md) has Usenet archives on a website called "Google groups".