Google Crisis Response – Join Google and give a hand (and some money too) to Japanese Red Cross. This is a good time to learn a little bit more about tsunamis. Try the National Geographic page on Tsunamis, or the Wikipedia.
[youtubeV youtubeurl=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAfaM_CBvP8″ width=”350″ height=”300″] Drawing a large area of a city from memory after a 45 minute helicopter ride seems an impossible task. Yet Stephen Wiltshire, aka the Living Camera, did it in Rome with incredible detail. This is not his first 3 meter wide panorama. Starting with Tokyo in 2005, he has drawn … Read more
Drawing Inspiration from Wesley Louis on Vimeo. ‘A wino, resigned and stuck in his ways, finds mysterious sketches on the park bench that he visits every day. As these pictures stir his thoughts, he begins to notice the world around him and to reflect upon his own place within it. He meets a young boy … Read more
Khronos Developer Presentations Library. The library has been updated with the presentations from GDC 2011, from the 28th of February to the 4th of March, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, USA. The presentations cover OpenGL, OpenCL, WebGL, amongst other topics.
Schypozoa – WebGL. Wow! Excellent graphics, hypnotising theme… Could look at it for hours… One of the best looking demos of 3D on the web I’ve ever seen.
OpenCL Studio is a tool that integrates OpenCL and OpenGL in a single development environment. There is a free version that is limited only in the number of items in your project tree. The app has a few demo projects, and there are video tutorials on the site.
FastKat GL 0.2 alpha version. Another demo using WebGL. You travel in an asteroid field and must avoid collisions. It’s just a demo, as pointed out on the site, but nicely done. Simple but effective.
Man Pages for GLSL are finally available 🙂 Its a nice touch to include version support in each function.
Fractal Lab, Interactive WebGL Fractal Explorer, is a very cool 3D web application. It can draw several types of fractals, both 3D and 2D, and it allows you to save the images produced. The fractals are rendered using WebGL and GLSL with real time interactivity (at least for the simpler ones). The source code for … Read more
Mason Woo, OpenGL Architectural Review Board, Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, Dave Shreiner Aka the Red Book. This book is the bible of OpenGL. Simply put, a must have! Early version is available online. More information about this title at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk