• Nerdy Desserts for the Holidays

    Updated: 2010-12-25 13:36:50
    For the holidays, fractal snowflake cupcakes: and atomic orbital spritz cookies: Have a joyful HanChrisSolZaa season and a happy New Year!

  • I3D 2011 Details

    Updated: 2010-12-22 17:16:33
    Ke-Sen’s I3D 2011 papers page now has the full list. At the moment there are only 8 author preprints available out of 24 papers, but I’m sure more will appear soon. Some of the paper titles look very intriguing – I’ll write a followup blog post about them soon. In addition, the I3D conference registration [...]

  • Digital Foundry interview with Halo: Reach developers

    Updated: 2010-12-17 00:44:28
    Halo: Reach was one of the big game releases of 2010, so I was pleased to see a detailed technical interview with some of the developers on Eurogamer‘s Digital Foundry website. I recommend you read the whole thing, but I’ll summarize some of the notable rendering tidbits (the interview also covered multiplayer, AI, and animation): [...]

  • cppcheck: free, easy, and great

    Updated: 2010-12-14 02:01:02
    Jari Komppa pointed this tool out to me while we were talking about my previous post on gDEBugger being free. The tool: cppcheck (download here). It’s free, it’s very simple to use, and it’s effective. Install, then run it like so: cppcheck -q theRootDirectoryOfAllCodeYouWantToCheck It will then plow through all your C++ files in this [...]

  • Gran Turismo on Playstation, PSP, PS2, and PS3

    Updated: 2010-12-14 00:21:13
    This video was published by Eurogamer‘s Digital Foundry department about two weeks ago; it shows footage captured from various games in the Gran Turismo series. What is remarkable about this video is that the same cars and tracks are shown on the original Playstation, the PSP, the Playstation 2 and Playstation 3. Since the developer [...]

  • HPG 2011 Call for Participation

    Updated: 2010-12-13 23:26:17
    High-Performance Graphics, although a relatively new conference in its current form, has had a large impact on the field; it is the venue of choice for breaking research on new antialiasing techniques, micropolygon rendering, and novel uses of GPUs for graphics. HPG 2011 will be co-located with SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver, and is looking for [...]

  • gDEBugger is now free!

    Updated: 2010-12-10 18:13:51
    Just noticed this on Morgan McGuire’s twitter feed. I don’t know why, but gDEBugger, sort of the PIX equivalent for OpenGL, is now free, go here for a license. They’ll be putting out a newer free version (5.8) by the end of the year, so it’s not like they’re discontinuing the product. Maybe it’s the [...]

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