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ShaderX Book Series

Jun 022011

Direct3D ShaderX: Vertex and Pixel Shader Tips and Tricks (2002)
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ShaderX2: Introductions and Tutorials with DirectX 9.0 (2003)
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ShaderX2: Shader Programming Tips and Tricks with DirectX 9.0 (2003)
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ShaderX3: Advanced Rendering with DirectX and OpenGL (2004)
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ShaderX4: Advanced Rendering Techniques (Jan. 2006)
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ShaderX5: Advanced Rendering Techniques (Dec. 2006)
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ShaderX6: Advanced Rendering Techniques (2008)
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ShaderX7 (2009)
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Series edited by Wolfgang Engel

The first three volumes are available in PDF from here.

Combined Table of Contents

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MachStudio Pro from StudioGPU

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Jun 012011

MachStudio Pro from StudioGPU is a tool for Real-time 3D rendering and effects for CGI, visualization and engineering. And its free …

3 Dreams of Black

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May 312011

An impressive demonstration of the potential of WebGL.

Prague Astronomical Clock – 600th Anniversary Show

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May 302011

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This fabulous clock, located in Old Town Square, Prague, is now (2010) 600 years old. To celebrate the occasion a 3D projection show was performed on the clock building.

Anamorphosis by Manfred Stader

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May 282011

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German 3D artist, Manfred Stader, created a 3D swimming pool

OpenGL ES 2.0 for iPhone Tutorial

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May 262011

Ray Wenderlich’ssite has posted an OpenGL ES 2.0 for iPhone Tutorial for beginners. It starts from scratch, describing how to setup a project and goes all the way till drawing a 3D rotating cube.

VSPL – Very Simple Profile Library

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May 242011

Optimization is a must in computer graphics applications, mainly in those devoted to real-time interaction, such as visualization and games. One possibility is to optimise everything that can be optimised, but this is in most cases a waste of time. There are segments in our applications that when optimised bring an overall gain in efficiency to our application, but this is not true for all segments.

VSPL, a component of the Very Simple * Libraries, brings a profiler which you can display on top of your application using OpenGL. There are no dependencies whatsoever, and the only requirement to display the profile report on top of the application is a function to display a string. In OpenGL you can use VSFL, another component of the Very Simple * Libraries.

CFP for OpenGL Insights Book

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May 232011

Patrick Cozzi and Christophe Riccio are calling for proposals for a new book, Game Programming Gems style, but dedicated to OpenGL, GL ES, and Web GL, i.e. to the GL world. The site for the CFP contains a list of possible themes for contributions. The deadline for proposals is the 15th of August.

VSFL Update

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May 232011

VSFL has suffered a minor update to be able to render fixed size fonts such as Courier New. Previously all chars would have the optimal length, but this makes formatted printing difficult in some circumstances. A new parameter has been added to the loadFont method to specify if the font is to be rendered with fixed size chars, or not (the default setting). Also a new font has been added to the package, Courier New, which can take advantage of this feature.