The Hacks of Life

In this post I will try to explain why a performance-focused OpenGL application like X-Plane does not use triangle strips. Since triangle ...

I seem to have become horribly addicted to Stack Overflow . It makes sense, but I just feel a compulsion to answer other people's quest...

I have learned many things today - some of which you may already know. Did you know that in German, to be "blue" means to be drun...

(This is a rehash of an answer I posted on Stack Overflow, after reading the previous posts and experimenting...probably bad form to report ...

From a past post : There are only two debugging techniques in the universe: printf. /* */ Is that true when writing GLSL shaders? Yep. Co...

I've been playing with shading algorithms lately. One such algorithm is the "number puzzle". The basic idea is to take a rep...

When looking at code speed, you can put on two different hats: When designing an API, you might ask: how do we prevent a slow-down in the f...