The Hacks of Life

In the old days of stencil shadow volumes, the code to draw the scene might look something like this: 1. For each light source 2. Clear t...

99.9% of the time, you don't have to worry about perspective correct texturing in OpenGL. If you draw a textured rectangle, it will loo...

I finally found info on how to make it happen here . Here's the short version: I used Ubuntu 7.10, which has Alsa 1.14, which is a littl...

Because CGAL does many magic geometry operations for me that (having tried to code myself) are a PITA to implement. But every now and then y...

Okay, I do have to admit: posting on why CVS sucks or how to make it slow is the lamest thing ever.  I mean, duh!  Everyone knows that CVS i...

Performance-profiling OpenGL is more difficult than performing a non-OpenGL application because: OpenGL uses a pipelined architecture; the s...

I've written too many UI frameworks (where by "too many" I mean more than zero). You could shout at me that I should use a li...