89: Smashing products
Lateral with Tom Scott
00:00
High Altitude Training in Bolivia and Minecraft's Pig Design Errors
This chapter covers the benefits of high altitude training in Bolivia, a listener's quiz question about modeling a pig in code, and a deep dive into the visual design choices of pigs in Minecraft due to possible errors in wrapping textures to geometry. The hosts discuss the creation of pig men in Minecraft, other animals in the game, a scenario involving pigs and time direction, the origin of creepers from a pig design error, the term 'redsmith,' and similarities between forging copper and steel.
Transcript
Play full episode
