• Graphics circuit sales up in Q2, but discrete cards are down

    Updated: 2012-08-17 07:30:25
    Testing the latest hardware Home News Test Lab Forum Blogs RSS Search Remember Me Create an account Home News Test Lab Forum Blogs Contact RSS About SMPC Graphics circuit sales up in Q2, but discrete cards are down Graphics Published on Friday , 17 August 2012 08:30 Written by Anton Karmehed PC sales have been limping lately and that makes it a bit of a surprise that the latest report speak of a rise in graphics circuit sales . During Q2 5.5 percent more circuits were shipped , year-to-year . comparison In total 126 million graphics circuits shipped out in Q2 2012, which is an increase of 2.5 percent from Q1 and 122 million units The number for Q2 2011 was 118 million . Not surprisingly the biggest increase came in the mobile segment and if we look more closely we see that the numbers of

  • WebGL Browser Editors

    Updated: 2012-08-15 15:53:20
    I asked Patrick Cozzi if he knew of any WebGL editors working in the browser. There turn out to be quite a few, each with their own focus: http://glsl.heroku.com/ http://webglplayground.net/ http://spidergl.org/meshade/index.html http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/ http://www.kickjs.org/example/shader_editor/shader_editor.html http://jsfiddle.net/ Enjoy! And let us know of any others you find.

  • Slides & Notes for “Advanced Lighting for Mobile” Talk

    Updated: 2012-08-15 11:39:38
    The slideset and notes for the SIGGRAPH 2012 talk “Advanced Lighting for Mobile”, given by Sam Martin of Geomerics, are up for download. Lots of interesting tidbits, useful even if you’re not programming for mobile devices.

  • SIGGRAPH 2012 Course Notes, so far

    Updated: 2012-08-14 11:06:23
    Edit: wow, this page has almost everything from SIGGRAPH 2012 (thanks, Sebastian, and especially Stephen Hill!). Just two course notes links I happen to have, though I’m sure Naty has considerably more: Beyond Programmable Shading – an interesting course as usual. The introductory talk by Aaron Lefohn points to the rise of the ComputeShader, and [...]

  • “Shadows” book signing 3-4 pm on Wednesday

    Updated: 2012-08-07 18:19:02
    Andrew Woo and Pierre Poulin will be signing their new book “Shadow Algorithms Data Miner” at the CRC Press/AK Peters booth, #929, at SIGGRAPH, Wednesday, 3-4 pm.

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