Debugging is something we all do. It is one of those things we can’t escape… Tools like Visual Studio are very powerful for debugging purposes and provide lots of debug options and information. However most of us don’t master these tools properly. If this is the case then you might want to take a look … Read more
VSPL has a new version which allows us to profile both the CPU and the GPU. To get the GPU times VSPL uses the OpenGL Time Queries. A short tutorial for the OpenGL Time Query is available in here.
“The Kinect for Windows SDK beta is a programming toolkit for application developers. It enables the academic and enthusiast communities easy access to the capabilities offered by the Microsoft Kinect device connected to computers running the Windows 7 operating system. The Kinect for Windows SDK beta includes drivers, rich APIs for raw sensor streams and … Read more
A Siggraph 2010 course “There are strong indications that the future of interactive graphics programming is a model more flexible than today’s OpenGL/Direct3D pipelines. As such, graphics developers need to have a basic understanding of how to combine emerging parallel programming techniques and more flexible graphics processors with the traditional interactive rendering pipeline. The first … Read more
Ray Wenderlich’ssite has posted an OpenGL ES 2.0 for iPhone Tutorial for beginners. It starts from scratch, describing how to setup a project and goes all the way till drawing a 3D rotating cube.
Optimization is a must in computer graphics applications, mainly in those devoted to real-time interaction, such as visualization and games. One possibility is to optimise everything that can be optimised, but this is in most cases a waste of time. There are segments in our applications that when optimised bring an overall gain in efficiency … Read more
Some materials of Lighthouse3D have been translated to Turkish by Mümin Güler and are available at http://opengltr.blogspot.com/. The contents include most of the GLUT tutorial, GLSL tutorial, and picking tutorial.
Very Simple Font Library – Text rendering is very useful to display information on top of a 3D world. VSFL aims at providing users with the ability to render bitmapped text in an OpenGL application using the core profile. With immediate mode gone in core OpenGL versions, so are the vast majority of font libs … Read more
One of the features that was not selected to be part of the core functionality was matrix handling. Previously we had OpenGL and GLU functions that provided the means for easily setting the camera, defining projections, and performing geometric transformations on graphical objects. The Very Simple Matrix Library (VSML) aims at providing users with a … Read more
Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming is almost an online book on core OpenGL. It covers a lot of ground, from drawing a triangle to HDR. The index promises a continuation onto texturing, render targets, and advanced lighting.