The Hacks of Life

Two decades ago when I first started working at Avid, one of the tasks I was assigned was porting our product (a consumer video editor - th...

Over a decade ago, I wrote a blog post about WorldEditor's file format design and, in particular, why I didn't reuse the serializa...

Normally I use this blog to complain about things that are broken, but I want to give credit here to Apple, for their WWDC 2018 video turn-...

I have, over the years, written more posts on VBOs and vertex performance in OpenGL than I'd like to admit. At this point, I can...

When we first put deferred rendering into X-Plane 10.0, complete with lots of spot lights in-scene, I coded up stencil volumes for the ligh...

Here's a riddle: Q: What does a two year old and OpenGL have in common?  A: You never know when either of them is going to flush.* ...

I've tried to write this post twice now, and I keep getting bogged down in the background information. In X-Plane 11.10 we fixed our lo...