shadows

The shadows in the left are noticeably sharper and the right shadows are all non-physically blurred with a gaussian kernel or something.

Or they get mashed together, or neutered, or otherwise transformed to poor shadows of their original conception.

Note the shadows and highlights and the pixelated edges around the simulated pictures on the device.

This reminds me of Inigo Quilez's work on rendering soft shadows by using distance fields.

But hey, if you're in the middle of a game, dodging enemies, you won't stop to criticize the slightly incorrect shadows.

This is exactly where one in reality does NOT have soft shadows due the the small apparent size of the sun.

There's just varying degrees of completely exposed to sort of in the shadows.

Aligning the phone, focus, light, shadows on the small menu font was difficult.

Edit for those that are out of the loop: shadows are notoriously finicky.

When I was a teenager, I was doing some experimentation with 2d shadows in Flash.

This is very obvious with shadows from tall objects such as buildings or towers - just go to the edge of the shadow and observe.

> recomputing lighting/shadows, animation, particle effects, etc Particle effects are dependent on graphics card bandwidth and fill rate.

Yes, the gradient at the edge of shadows is washed out by the "flood light" of the sky, but it's still visible.

One time I listened to this podcast where he was trying to sound scientific when questioning the moon landing, but it was just as weak as the "where are the astronaut's shadows" people.

Shadows would look different for linear lights like fluorescent tubes.