The Hacks of Life

So...just between you and me and the blogosphere...X-Plane always runs in windowed mode. Now if you are not a graphics programmer, do not pa...

This is an open letter to Santa, and by Santa I mean the people at ATI and nVidia who are coming up with the next generation of GPUs, which ...

This post assumes you know what tangent space normal maps are in general, and roughly how they work geometrically. If you try to code this,...

Some definitions: instancing is drawing the same mesh over and over, but in different places/poses/transform/whatever. Instancing comes int...

I was curious as to what the cost is of retrieving "thread local storage" (per-thread variables). I am looking to move some varia...

This morning I googled perspective texturing in response to a post on the Apple OpenGL mailing list, and this post came up. It's not a ...

A performance tip when using CGAL 2D Boolean Operations : you'll get much better performance if you can perform multiple operations at o...