The Hacks of Life

I have been updating X-Plane 10's deferred pipeline; when 10.10 is in a later beta and we're sure that the new pipeline is going t...

For a while X-Plane has had a performance problem pushing streaming vertices through ATI Radeon HD GPUs on Windows (but not OS X).  Our i...

I hate to admit this, but sometimes I find myself missing python. For example, the other day, I wrote this horrible mess^H^H^H^H^H^Hbeautif...

My curiosity always pushes me to upgrade to the latest OS despite the caution issued to me by Ben. I upgraded to Lion and quickly found that...

Using two sided stencil volumes to improve fill rate with deferred lights is not new; I'll write more if anyone wants, but this is all s...

I've been meaning to write up a few notes about how we turn OSM vector data into bezier curves for X-Plane.  The code is all open sourc...

Lately I've been playing with an STL "sequence" concept.  That's a terrible name and I'm sure there are other things t...