John Carmack

   John Carmack is a brilliant legendary programmer that's contributed mostly
   to [1]computer graphics and stands behind engines of such [2]games as
   [3]Doom, [4]Wolfenstein and [5]Quake. He helped pioneer real-time 3D
   graphics, created many [6]hacks and [7]algorithms (e.g. the reverse shadow
   volume algorithm). He is also a rocket [8]engineer.

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   [9]ASCII art of John Carmack

   He's kind of the ridiculously stereotypical [10]nerd with glasses that
   just from the way he talks gives out the impression of someone with high
   functioning [11]autism. You can just sense his [12]IQ is over 9000. Some
   nice [13]shit about him can be read in the (sadly [14]proprietary) book
   Masters of Doom.

   Carmack is a proponent of [15]FOSS and has released his old game engines
   as such which gave rise to an enormous amount of modifications, forked
   engines and even new games (e.g. [16]Freedoom and [17]Xonotic). He's
   probably leaning more towards the dark side of the source: the
   [18]open-source. In 2021 Carmack tweeted that he would have rather
   licensed his old Id engines under a permissive BSD [19]license than the
   [20]GPL, which is good.

   In 2013 he sadly sold his soul to [21]Facebook to work on [22]VR (in a
   Facebook owned company Oculus).

Links:
1. graphics.md
2. game.md
3. doom.md
4. wolf3D.md
5. quake.md
6. hack.md
7. algorithm.md
8. engineer.md
9. ascii_art.md
10. nerd.md
11. autism.md
12. iq.md
13. shit.md
14. proprietary.md
15. foss.md
16. freedoom.md
17. xonotic.md
18. open_source.md
19. license.md
20. gpl.md
21. facebook.md
22. vr.md