Sean Barrett
Game programmer; wrote the Thief renderer at Looking Glass; author of the stb C libraries.
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- Sean Barrett is a game programmer who wrote the renderer for Thief: The Dark Project at Looking Glass Studios, beginning in 1995.
- He is the author of the stb libraries, public-domain single-file C libraries such as stb_image, stb_truetype and stb_vorbis.
- He writes about game development techniques at nothings.org.
Key facts
- Looking Glass
- Wrote the Dark Engine renderer used by Thief: The Dark Project (1998), starting in fall 19951
- Libraries
- stb: public-domain C libraries including stb_image.h, stb_truetype.h and stb_vorbis.c2
- Writing
- The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief (2011); Herringbone Wang Tiles (2011)2
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