The Hacks of Life

My last post introduced an STL vector that uses RLE to save space and an index for reasonably fast random access. But that's not the wh...

Normally for data that has a lot of repeating values, I use run-length encoding - it works particularly well when the data is accessed from ...

We use MediaWiki for the X-Plane Wiki , which is meant to be a collection of online documentation for tech support, third party editing, etc...

EDIT: Technique 2 (origin differencing) is, besides a terrible idea, not the fastest way to transform normals. See this post for a much be...

An Übershader (üshader) might mean different things to different developers.  A üshader always implies a single unified shader with a lot of...

The battle with cascading shadow maps (CSM) is always one for resolution .  We could use 25 layers of CSM, but that would defeat the whole p...

Every now and then I come across a graphics algorithm so out there that it just blows my mind - it feels like cheating the laws of physics o...