The Hacks of Life

Amongst the many rants I've read about the new OpenGL 3.0 spec, is the claim that the spec needs to be cleaned out and rebuilt so that p...

So this is what I learned today: when it comes to geometry shaders and the 8800, triangle strips matter. Now after you read the details, th...

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...