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Resources for textures, filtering and compression in OpenGL
This is just a list of articles/blogs posts/links about textures, texture filtering, mipmaps, compression and other interesting things related to images in OpenGL (or general graphics programming)....
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Soil performance texture tests
While implementing OpenGL's mipmap generation method into SOIL library I have started to create a test that would verify my initial assumptions. I wanted to test if the new method is faster than the...
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AntTweakBar cursor lag workaround
AntTweakBar 1.16, Windows build, OpenGL(Core) renderer.Recently I have noticed that when there is a cursor change when moving between controls some "lag" occurs. It is not seen when you have static...
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The Passionate Programmer
How to be a better programmer? What technologies should be learned? How to have fun when coding?Read more to see where are the answers for those questions.Plan:IntroMarket and InvestmentExecutionSum...
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C++ status at the end of 2013
table {margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;} tr:nth-child(even) { background-color: #dddddd; } tr:first-child { font-weight: bold; } C++11 conformance GCC 4.81 - 100%Clang 3.3 - 100%Intel 14.0 -...
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Tasks with std::future and std::async
Let us consider a simple thing: use some worker thread to compute a value. In the source code it can look like that:std::thread t([]() { auto res = perform_long_computation(); };We would like to obtain...
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C++ down, up or stable?
div { text-align: justify; } Just a short post about popularity of C++. When preparing for my recent presentation about C++11 (and 14) I tried to understand what is going on with the language trengs....
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Simple Water Simulation
div { text-align:justify; } Finally I have managed to publish my awesome water simulation! I know thatĀ I wrote about my intentions to publish the project some time ago but as usually there was no...
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Book: Direct3D Rendering Cookbook
div {text-align: justify;} Direct3D is still dominating technology on Windows Platform so it is good to know its current state. Luckily for me, I got a chance to look at the newest book from Pack...
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What You Should Know About C++11
div { text-align:justify;} Although I have not written for a while on my blog I actually created a lot of articles in some other place recently. Please take a look at my introduction to C++11. What You...
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Learning Modern OpenGL
div { text-align:justify;} Another article posted in some other place in the NET. This time I tried to describe what resources are available when learning modern OpenGL. In the first place I've written...
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Three Particle Effects
div { text-align: justify; } For some time I have been playing around with my particle system. It seems to be a very interesting experiment to do! Today I just want to present some of current results...
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Flexible Particle System - Start
div { text-align: justify; } Particle systems are awesome! Not only can you create amazing effects, but you can also optimize code and push even more and more pixels to the screen. This post series...
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Presentation - Native code performance on modern CPUs
div { text-align: justify; } Just a quick summary of a great presentation from Build 2014 calledĀ Native Code Performance on Modern CPUs: A Changing Landscape.The presenter Eric Brumer (from Visual C++...
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Flexible particle system - The Container
div { text-align: justify; } One of the most crucial part of a particle system is the container for all particles. It has to hold all the data that describe particles, it should be easy to extend and...
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Vector of object vs Vector of pointers
div { text-align: justify; }After watching some of the talks from Build 2014 - especially "Modern C++: What You Need to Know" and some talks from Eric Brumer I started thinking about writing my own...
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Flexible particle system - The Container 2
div { text-align: justify; }Last time I've written about problems that we can face when designing a particle container. This post will basically show my current (basic - without any optimizations)...
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Notes from Digital Dragons 2014 Day 1
p, div { text-align: justify; }official logo fromĀ digitaldragons.plDigital Dragons conference was organized in Cracow for the thrid time. I had no chance to be there in the first two years, but...
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Notes from Digital Dragons 2014 Day 2
p, div { text-align: justify; }official logo fromĀ digitaldragons.plPlease see my notes from the second day at Digital Dragons 2014 Conference from Cracow.Presentations started a bit earlier than the...
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Flexible particle system - Emitter and Generators
p, div { text-align: justify; }In our particle system we have already a basic foundation: the container and the framework. Now we need some modules that can actually wake particles. In this post I will...
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