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Every country must dispose of old banknotes. At the Hong Kong Monetary Authority visitor center, visitors can buy a paperweight souvenir full of shredded banknotes. Even though the shredded banknotes are small, by using computer vision, it is possible to reconstruct the whole banknote like a jigsaw puzzle. Each paperweight souvenir costs $100 HKD, and it is claimed to contain shredded banknotes equivalent to...

“Low-level thinking in high-level shading languages” (Emil Persson, 2013), along with its followup “Low-level Shader Optimization for Next-Gen and DX11“, is in my top 3 most influential presentations, one that changed the way I think about shader programming in general (since I know you are wondering the other 2 are...