The Hacks of Life

So if you survived the timing of VBO updates (or rather, my speculations on what is possible with VBO updates), now you're in a positio...

In my previous post I suggested that to get high VBO vertex performance in OpenGL, it's important to decouple pushing the next set of v...

One of the tricky aspects of the OpenGL API is that it specifies what an implementation will do, but it doesn't specify how fast it will...

I was reading NVidia's white paper on smoke particles and came across the notion of front-to-back blending. The idea is to change Open...

I finally figured out why attachments from our bug report script don't have icons in Apple mail: Apple mail requires multipart/mixed as ...

I've been playing with "stupid UV map tricks" lately - the basic idea is to (in the fragment shader) change the texture coord...

In a previous post I went over the math behind generating the coordinate system for normal mapping in a pixel shader, which allows you to u...