Some materials of Lighthouse3D have been translated to Turkish by Mümin Güler and are available at http://opengltr.blogspot.com/. The contents include most of the GLUT tutorial, GLSL tutorial, and picking tutorial.
May 222011
ARF
May 212011
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“A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”
May 182011
G-Truc Creation has been building a samples pack for OpenGL that covers versions from 2.1 up to 4.1 This latest release has reached the 100 samples mark. An invaluable source of code for the newest versions.
May 182011
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December is the date for the premier of the new adaptation of Tintin to the big screen, by the hand of Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, and directed by the former.
May 162011
Very Simple Font Library – Text rendering is very useful to display information on top of a 3D world. VSFL aims at providing users with the ability to render bitmapped text in an OpenGL application using the core profile.
With immediate mode gone in core OpenGL versions, so are the vast majority of font libs that worked with OpenGL. Immediate mode was terribly slow, and code wise very extensive. Vertex Buffers are clearly the way to go. This lib uses VAOs and vertex buffers to render text.
May 152011
That’s what happens when a graphic designer and a fluids dynamics researcher get together.
May 132011
The Very Simple Matrix Library (VSML) header file has been updated to include comments suitable for Doxygen. Some bugs on the frustum and ortho functions were also cleared. I’ve also installed a plug-in for some nice syntax highlight which I hope it makes code reading easier. If you find any other bugs please let me know.
May 122011
May 112011
One of the features that was not selected to be part of the core functionality was matrix handling. Previously we had OpenGL and GLU functions that provided the means for easily setting the camera, defining projections, and performing geometric transformations on graphical objects.
The Very Simple Matrix Library (VSML) aims at providing users with a functionality similar to the one available up to OpenGL 3.2. I’ve been using OpenGL for a long time and those matrix handling functions served most of my purposes when programming graphics, hence I grew fond of them. I missed them in the new OpenGL versions so I decided to write a simple lib to perform the same tasks in a very similar way.
May 112011
Dynamics and Particle Effects is a two part article on creating particle systems on Maya. Smoke and rain are two of the effects that are taught in this tutorial by Audri Phillips from Intel.
From their very inception, 3D programs have been used to imitate natural phenomena, creating realistic, stylized, or artistic effects. A greater range of effects is now possible than in the past, before the advent of computer technology. The dynamics/particle effects component of 3D software combined with compositing programs-many of which also have particle capabilities-have primarily been used to create these effects, which have become a mainstay in film, commercial, and game production.