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If you’re using double buffering AND perform buffer swap in sync with the V-Sync signal, your monitor will show your game just as a movie projector with shutter would show a cartoon in the cinema

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I’ve seen a pretty minimal 2D engine written from scratch at a cost of 4-6 person-weeks

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when trying to scale vector image to VERY small pixel sizes – you might get problems

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Internally, JPEG uses a close cousin of a Fourier Transform, which works over 8x8 pixel blocks.

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you MUST NOT edit any of intermediate files directly

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How will I implement automation?

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Yes, a coding architect might work (and is indeed orders of magnitude better than an architect who has no clue about the code), but a knowledge-sharing architect will generally work better.

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As a nice side effect, the very same knowledge sharing weakens a dependency on the architect (and reducing any dependency on a specific person is a Universally Good Thing™).