The Hacks of Life

I spent some time today working on an interval set. The basic idea of an interval set is to record a set of disjoint ranges that partition ...

This problems occurs repeatedly in the X-Plane scenery tools code: we need to import a series of polygons into a single arrangement_2 struct...

In a past post I described CGAL as having no rounding errors . It does this by using number types of variable size (using dynamically alloc...

One part of this post by Daring Fireball on the iPhone SDK licensing agreement made me chuckle: If you are constitutionally opposed to deve...

The other day I went in to discover why a new piece of scenery code had mysteriously stopped working. Eventually I came to this: (p,path.s...

A few months ago I posted a request (to Santa) for parallel command dispatch. The idea is simple: if I am going to render several CSM shad...

OpenGL is a very leaky abstraction . It promises to draw in 3-d. And it does! But it doesn't say a lot about how long that drawing wi...