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John D. Carmack II (born August 20, 1970) is a widely recognized figure in the video game industry. A prolific American programmer, Carmack co-founded id Software, a computer game development company, in 1991. Carmack was the lead programmer of the highly successful id computer games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and subsequent sequels to Doom and Quake. His revolutionary programming techniques, combined with the unique game designs of John Romero, led to a mass-popularization of the first-person shooter genre (FPS) in the 1990s. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (682x681, 127 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): John Carmack Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to...
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id Software (IPA: officially, though originally ) is an American computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ...
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John Carmack is a widely recognized and influential game programmer. ...
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Though Carmack is best known for his innovations in 3D graphics, he is also a rocketry enthusiast and the founder and lead engineer of Armadillo Aerospace. He has aspirations of suborbital space tourism in the short term, eventually leading to orbital space flights. A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust from within a rocket engine. ...
Armadillo Aerospace is an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas. ...
Youth Carmack, son of local television news reporter Stan Carmack, grew up in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area where he became interested in computers at an early age. He attended Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas and Raytown South High School in nearby Raytown, Missouri. As reported in David Kushner's Masters of Doom, "when Carmack was 14, he broke into a school to steal Apple II computers, was arrested, and sent for psychiatric evaluation (the report mentions "no empathy for other human beings"). Carmack was then sentenced to a year in a juvenile home."[1] After scoring a 1500 on the SAT, he attended the University of Missouri - Kansas City for two semesters before withdrawing to work as a freelance programmer. Kansas City satellite map The Kansas City Metropolitan Area is a metropolitan area situated at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers (Kaw Point) and straddling the state border between Missouri and Kansas. ...
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Game programming
John Carmack working on Doom 3 Softdisk, a computer company in Shreveport, Louisiana, hired Carmack to work on Softdisk G-S (an Apple IIGS publication), uniting him with John Romero and other future key members of id Software such as Adrian Carmack (not related). Later, this team would be placed by Softdisk in charge of a new, but short-lived, bi-monthly game subscription product called Gamer's Edge for the IBM PC (MS-DOS) platform. In 1990, while still at Softdisk, Carmack, Romero, and others created the first of the Commander Keen games, a series which was published by Apogee Software, under the shareware distribution model, from 1991 onwards. Afterwards, Carmack left Softdisk to co-found id Software, where he remains. Download high resolution version (938x707, 109 KB)Game programmer John Carmack working on Doom 3. ...
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Doom 3 is a science fiction horror first-person shooter computer game developed by id Software and published by id Software on August 3, 2004. ...
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Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is a well-known game designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry. ...
Adrian Carmack (born on May 5, 1969) is one of the four founders of id Software and has worked there as an artist since its creation. ...
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He has pioneered or popularised the use of many techniques in computer graphics, including "adaptive tile refresh" for Commander Keen, raycasting for Wolfenstein 3-D, binary space partitioning which Doom became the first game to use, surface caching which he invented for Quake, Carmack's Reverse which he devised for Doom 3, and MegaTexture, used in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. While he was not the first to discover Carmack's Reverse, he developed it independently. Yorp redirects here. ...
In computer graphics, Ray-casting is a pseudo-3D rendering technique, a special case of ray tracing. ...
Binary space partitioning (BSP) is a method for recursively subdividing a space into convex sets by hyperplanes. ...
Surface caching is a computer graphics technique pioneered by John Carmack, first used in the computer game Quake. ...
Carmacks Reverse is a computer graphics technique for stencil shadow volumes that solves the problem of when the viewers eye enters the shadow volume by tracing backwards from some point at infinity to the eye of the camera. ...
MegaTexture refers to a texture mapping technique used in Splash Damages upcoming game, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. ...
Carmack's engines have also been licensed for use in other influential first-person shooters such as Half-Life and Medal of Honor. This article describes the computer game. ...
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Aerospace Around the year 2000, Carmack became interested in rocketry, a hobby of his youth. Reviewing how much money he was spending on customizing Ferraris, he realized he could do significant work in rocketry and Aerospace. He began by giving financial support to a few local amateur groups before starting Armadillo Aerospace. He taught himself rocket engineering and is the lead engineer of the company. Since then he has made steady progress toward his goals of suborbital space flight and eventual orbital vehicles. Look up aerospace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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Free software Carmack is a well-known advocate of open source software, and has repeatedly voiced his opposition to software patents, which he equates to "mugging someone".[2] He has also contributed to open source projects, such as starting the initial port of the X Window System to Mac OS X Server and working to improve the OpenGL drivers for Linux through the Utah GLX project. ...
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Carmack released the source code for Wolfenstein 3D in 1995 and the Doom source code in 1997. When the source code to Quake was leaked and circulated among the Quake community underground in 1996, a programmer unaffiliated with id Software used it to port Quake to Linux, and subsequently sent the patches to Carmack. Instead of pursuing legal action, id Software, at Carmack's behest, used the patches as the foundation for a company-sanctioned Linux port. id Software has since publicly released the source code to Quake, Quake 2 and most recently Quake 3, all under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The Doom source code was also re-released under the GPL in 1999. When id Software released Quake in 1995, it was former employee Dave Taylor who developed a Linux port in what seemed to be his spare time. ...
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Carmack is also noted for his generous contributions to charities and gaming communities. Some of the recipients of Carmack's charitable contributions include his former high school, promoters of open source software, opponents of software patents, and game enthusiasts. In 1997 he gave away one of his Ferraris (a 328 model) as a prize to Dennis Fong, the winner of the Quake "Red Annihilation" tournament. A charitable organization (also known as a charity) is a trust, company or unincorporated association established for charitable purposes only. ...
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Dennis Fong, also known under the pseudonym Thresh, was a professional gamer best known for winning John Carmacks Ferrari 308 at the Microsoft-sponsored Red Annihilation tournament in 1997. ...
Personal Carmack met his wife Katherine Anna Kang at QuakeCon 1997 when she visited id's offices. As a bet, Kang challenged Carmack to sponsor the first All Female Quake Tournament if she was able to produce a significant number of participants. At the time, female FPS computer gamers were more myth than reality. Kang's tournament had over 600+ registered female gamers vying to win a trip for 2 to California to win $2,000+ worth of prizes.[citation needed] Among them were Kornelia, KillCreek, and the PMS Clan: some of the most famed female players at the time.[citation needed] Carmack and Kang married in January 2000 and had a son in 2004. John Carmack, id Software Source: http://archive. ...
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John Carmack is a widely recognized and influential game programmer. ...
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In a QuakeFinger blog post, Carmack mentioned that he has "no belief in luck, fate, karma, or god(s)".[3]
Other activities Carmack has a blog (previously a .plan). He also occasionally posts comments to Slashdot. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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Professional Philosophy One of the aspects of Carmack's life which has set him apart from his rivals is the lack of a need for a final release date goal while developing a new game. When asked for a release date on a new title, Carmack has famously quipped that the game will be released "when it's done".
Recognition - In 1999, Carmack appeared as number 10 in TIME's list of the 50 most influential people in technology.[2]
- On March 22, 2001, Carmack became the fourth person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame, an honor bestowed upon those who have made revolutionary and innovative achievements in the video and computer game industry.
- In 2003, Carmack was one of the subjects of the book Masters of Doom, a chronicle of id Software and its founders.
- In 2005, the film Doom featured a character named Dr. Carmack, in recognition of Carmack who co-created the original game.
- In March 2006, Carmack was added to the Walk of Game, an event that recognizes the developers and games with the most impact on the industry.[4]
- In January of 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada, John Carmack and id software were awarded with two Emmy Awards. The Science, Engineering & Technology for Broadcast Television, which includes broadcast, cable and satellite distribution, and secondly, Science, Engineering and Technology for Broadband and Personal Television, encompassing interactive television, gaming technology, and for the first time, the Internet, cell phones, private networks, and personal media players. id Software is the very first independent game developer to be awarded an Emmy since the Academy began honoring technology innovation in 1948.[5]
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Since 1998, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has annually inducted into its Hall of Fame video game developers that have made revolutionary and innovative achievements in the computer and video game industry. ...
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a book by David Kushner about id Software and its influence on popular culture, focusing chiefly on John Romero and John Carmack. ...
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In the Metreon complex building in San Francisco there is a Walk of Game, just like Hollywood has a Walk of Fame, honoring great video game achievements. ...
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id Software (IPA: officially, though originally ) is an American computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ...
References - ^ Masters of Doom by David Kushner. Quoted in The Weekly Standard, Vol. 012, Issue 23. [[1]]
- ^ "Are video game patents next?" Slashdot article
- ^ http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=John_Carmack
- ^ Walk of Game
- ^ Emmy Awards
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Further reading - Kushner, David (2003). Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50524-5.
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Articles | Persondata | | NAME | Carmack II, John D. | | ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carmack, John | | SHORT DESCRIPTION | American game programmer | | DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1970 | | PLACE OF BIRTH | Kansas City, Kansas | | DATE OF DEATH | | | PLACE OF DEATH | | |
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