Are games the most complex / impressive applications?
Short answer: No. Long answer: Games actually aren’t all that complicated. It depends on what you’re talking about when you say “games” but the two contenders for most complex games would be 3D games and online games (particularly massively online games). The complication in 3D games comes from taking a model of a world and rendering it in 3D and to have it behave in a “realistic” (within the rules of the world) way. Creating a visual and auditory environment from that isn’t actually that hard. It’s pretty much all linear algebra and is a mature field of computer science. The real trick comes in making that process performant in real-time. Over the years game programmers have had to make a LOT of tradeoffs between realism and performance (eg if you can make a performance algorithm that’ll generate realistic looking trees that’s actually worth a lot of money). So games have naturally gotten better (visually) over the years as computing and graphics power has increased. Now some game pro
