Other People's Notes

aras-p.info
Aras' website of various programmings.
Atom Project
I have no idea what he's trying to make, but it's built of purest awesome.
Cowboy Programming
Game development from Mick West. Very wise man.
Ke-Sen Huang's Paper List
A collection of all the cutting edge graphics research.
Level Of Detail
Particularly good with light and it's absence.
Real-Time Rendering Blog
An excellent resource for cutting-edge graffix stuffs.

Twitter Updates

@rygorous The worst part is, I can't even tell if you're joking. Saturday January 28, 2012
@davidhampson The maths library I use now is basically HLSL compatible. I recommend it heartily, also comes in handy for sharing code on GPU Tuesday January 24, 2012
Just finished watching Trollhunter, cannot recommend highly enough. Watch it! Monday January 23, 2012
@tom_forsyth No taxation without representation! (unless you're on a green card or visa it would appear) Wednesday January 18, 2012
@tom_forsyth @bmcnett That's dangerously close to a Quake 1 surface cache there. Been waiting years for them to come back. Friday January 13, 2012
@self_shadow The only sensible conclusion is that the publish button is putting the errors in. Saturday January 7, 2012

Very Sleepy 0.8

Programs

Very Sleepy 0.8 has been released!

Well, this is certainly something I should have done a long time ago. I feel I should apologise to the approximately 7 billion people who have sent me patches over the past year or so, which I have been slack in integrating.

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— Kayamon

Tuesday November 15, 2011

Single-pass midpoint shadow maps

Here’s a little idea I had today. I haven’t seen this posted anywhere else so I thought I’d note it down.

How to generate a midpoint shadow map in one pass …

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— Kayamon

Tuesday May 10, 2011

Very Sleepy 0.7, now with added 64-bitness

Programs

Very Sleepy 0.7 has been released!

The 0.7 release now has 64-bit support. The installer will automatically install the correct version for your machine. This work not be possible without the tireless effort of Johan Köhler, and his threats to open a can of surströmming if I didn’t upload it.

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— Kayamon

Wednesday October 13, 2010

peg/leg parser generator · 2009-08-03
I’ve been on the hunt for a good parser generator for quite a while now....
Separable lighting · 2009-06-11
So I want to talk briefly about lighting. The classic method of illumination in games involved...
Welding vertices · 2009-04-27
To summarise the problem – welding vertices means you want to find all pairs of...
Waxeye · 2009-03-31
Waxeye is a simple scannerless parser generator. I’m uploading some Win32 binaries for it, as...
Yes, we have threading! · 2009-03-25
At long last, with many thanks to the wonderful efforts of Dan Engelbrecht, we finally...
Two-channel framebuffers for next-gen color schemes · 2009-02-26
Reducing the memory consumed by a framebuffer is often useful in modern rendering, as the...
Why I love Wikipedia · 2009-02-21
Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like.
Signed Distance Fields · 2009-02-18
I’m writing this article because the last time I had to generate a signed-distance field,...

Valve's Mac implementation

Graphics

I was just reading this article on Valve’s website, where they talk about their performance on Apple Macs, when I ran across this little gem –

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— Kayamon

Thursday September 9, 2010