The Hacks of Life

You might think the primary purpose of X-Plane is to help people enjoy the experience of flight at home, or to help pilots train for real-w...

I dropped X-Plane into ATI AMD's GPU PerfStudio 2 to see what might be going on on the GPU side of things.  This is on a Sandy Bridge ...

So you want to draw a series of streaming 2-d quads.  (By streaming I mean: their position or orientation is changing per frame.)  Maybe ...

Just a science experiment from the weekend.  LDraw parts have been scaled to get them to all fit on screen together.

I was flipping through MOC-train pictures and was struck by this image.  What got my attention is not only that it is a very well done m...

I spent about three hours yesterday tracking down a weird bug in CGAL - I have code that builds a general polygon set out of an arrangeme...

BrickSmith is a FOSS 3-d LDraw -compatible editor for Mac; basically it lets you model legos on your computer. BrickSmith is a wonderful...