The Hacks of Life

I have been pushing for a formal level-of-detail scheme for LDraw; the performance problem is that LDraw bricks contain a fairly high verte...

First, a bunch of disclaimers: I do not know how the PowerVR SGX hardware really works, I do not have access to either the Apple OpenGL sou...

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...