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Chris Knowles

I'm a Christian, a husband, a geek, a game developer, and unlikely to say no to seafood.

18 posts

Braving Fate

Two things have always stuck with me about Brave. First, Merida's hair. It's an absolute triumph of CGI. It involves 1,500 curls of hair and a huge amount of physics simulation work to get it to move correctly, and took three years to get right.

06 November 2017

The Tunnel of Babel

Of all the headlines I didn't expect to read in the last few weeks, "Former Google engineer plans to build AI god" is right up there. I expected it to be one of those articles where the headline promises a lot but the body doesn'

17 October 2017

In response to Steve Jobs

It probably won't surprise you to learn that if you work at a software company with a few hundred other geeks, you soon encounter Strong Opinions on things like smartphones. However, in my own team this mostly consists of a variety of complaints about the way various manufacturers

03 October 2017

You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally!

Doc Brown: not a fan of paradoxes (Image: Universal Pictures) Occasionally at work, someone will bring a stack of books or DVDs or games into the office and leave them in the kitchen, either with a sign reading "free to a good home", or a cup and a

04 September 2017

In the grim darkness of the present time there is only war

I've come rather late to Warhammer 40,000. A good friend of mine, our youth worker at church, has been playing it for years, and after hinting for a while that I should really start playing, he convinced me that the impending release of the 8th edition was

21 August 2017
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