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

Ramblings

Easy preprocessor defines · 2012-01-04
Here’s a nice little trick I’ve been using for a while. The trouble with the...
Single-pass midpoint shadow maps · 2011-05-10
Here’s a little idea I had today. I haven’t seen this posted anywhere else so...
Valve's Mac implementation · 2010-09-09
I was just reading this article on Valve’s website, where they talk about their...
Antisocial networking · 2010-08-03
I have the Twitters now. http://twitter.com/grumpygiant Sometimes I don’t know why I do it to myself,...
Shallow water refraction in Super Mario Galaxy · 2010-06-27
I’ve been playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 over the past few days, and it’s fantastic....
Biggle · 2010-01-23
Biggle – The least-big OpenGL extension wrapper library Biggle is a small extension wrapper library for...
AveNoBreadcrumb 64-bit edition · 2009-12-03
Hello peeps, I recently had the misfortune to be force to “upgrade” to Windows Vista. I’ve...
How to report a bug in DirectX · 2009-11-13
Projected area of an AABB · 2009-10-15
I recently had the need to work out how much space an AABB takes up...
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...
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,...
Dinosaur Input Device · 2009-02-18
When Industrial Light and Magic were making Jurassic Park, they had a bit of a...
Papers, please · 2009-02-15
Since computer graphics was invented by Jim Blinn back in the 70’s, there’s been quite...
A New Look · 2009-02-15
As you may have noticed, I’ve done a revamp on the website. Instead of the...
Linked-list radix sort · 2009-02-14
Here’s a small snippet to show how you can sort a linked-list using radix sort. Radix...