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ApiTrace 2.0 28 Sep 2011 | 10:14 am
ApiTrace 2.0 is out. ApiTrace is by far the best graphics debugging tool out there. We have implemented so many new features since 1.0 that we have decided to bump the version number to 2.0. Some of...
NV path rendering 18 Sep 2011 | 12:27 pm
A while ago NVIDIA released drivers with their NV_path_rendering extension. GL_NV_path_rendering is a relatively new OpenGL extension which allows rendering of stroked and filled paths on the GPU. I....
ApiTrace 26 Apr 2011 | 08:21 am
During the last three weeks I've spent most of my spare time writing a GUI for Jose's amazing ApiTrace project. ApiTrace is a project to trace, analyze and debug graphics api's. Both OpenGL and Direct...
Directing Lemmings 19 Mar 2011 | 10:18 am
Phoronix just posted a link to an interview with Ryan Gordon who says Also, I find it completely ridiculous that we're shipping open source OpenGL drivers without S3TC support because of patent conce...
2D musings 3 Nov 2010 | 01:56 am
If you've been following graphics developments in the 2D world over the last few years you've probably seen a number of blogs and articles complaining about performance. In particular about how slow 2...
Intermediate representation again 29 Oct 2010 | 09:12 am
I wrote about intermediate representation a few times already but I've been blogging so rarely that it feels like ions ago. It's an important topic and one that is made a bit more convoluted by Galliu...
Graphics drivers 2 Jul 2010 | 01:42 am
There are only two tasks harder than writing Free Software graphics drivers. One is running a successful crocodile petting zoo, the other is wireless bungee jumping. In general writing graphics drive...
No hands! 22 Jun 2010 | 01:46 am
I've spent the last few weeks in London with Keith Whitwell and José Fonseca, the greatest computer graphics experts since the guy who invented the crystal ball in the Lord of the Rings, the one that ...
Geometry Processing - A love story 28 Apr 2010 | 03:11 am
It's still early in the year but I feel like this is the favorite for the "best computer science related blog title of 2010". I'd include 2009 in that as well, but realistically speaking I probably wr...
The software renderer 12 Mar 2010 | 04:19 am
There's a number of great software renderers out there. SwiftShader and DirectX WARP being the two widely known ones. Unfortunately GNU/Linux, and Free Software in general, didn't have a modern softwa...
