The Hacks of Life

If you use CGAL with GMP for numerics, you might want to compile a debug version of GMP. The problem is: GMP will abort if it gets bogus inp...

Comparing the quality of ad-hoc shadows vs. CSM...there are some cases where ad-hoc does a lot better.  In particular, given a character or...

Previously I blogged a design for combining G-Buffering with shadow mapping using the stencil buffer. I doubt that this is an original idea...

The CGAL arrangement_2 operation "merge_edge" takes two connected half-edges (connected by a vertex of degree 2) and makes them on...

The STL on my Mac seems to have a "priority queue", but it's not quite what I want - it's just a wrapper around a heap.  W...

To combine a GLSL shader and user clip planes, you need to do two things: Set up your clip plane normally using glClipPlane and glEnable(GL_...

A fundamental client problem with the CGAL arrangement_2 class: how do you recover handles to the edges you insert?  Note that the insertion...