Is it just me, or any other of you think that the Megatexture technology that the advanced DOOM 3 engine is going to provide is just nonsense? I mean besides the first awe of the hypie name, when you settle to actually think about it the megatexture technology is just a pain in the @#%!
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nVidia unveils CUBA – The GPU Computing Revolution
In a recent press release nVidia anounced CUBA. A fundamentaly new architecture for GPU computing that will finally remove the stream computing paradigm! This is like my previous post about gpus and the programming model was read by nVidia! Imagine we will finally be able to harvest the powers of modern GPUs for general computing, without having to mess with vertex buffer, textures and other nonsense! Good days ahead!!!
Read MoreCarnival of Game Programming
I would like to inform you that the Carnival of Game Programming was started at Blog Carnival. The goal is to have host a carnival each month (given that there are enough good articles). What is the Carnival of Game Programming? The Carnival of Game Programming collects together links pointing to blog articles about game programming and works like […]
Read MoreCarnival of Game Production
It is my pleasure to announce that my article Stackless Python was included in the first ever published Carnival of Game Production! The carnival features some other interesting articles too, so make sure you check it out! A big thanks to the organizers…
Read MoreHappy Holidays
Merry Christmas to all of us! I wish to all of you to have nice and relaxing holidays, with lots of fun and happiness!
Read MoreRuby and the don’t speek of the devil culture
As a constantly inquiring mind I don’t seem to rest with programming languages. As you know when the hype got me I took a look at the Ruby language. I was really impressed by the carry out of the project and the rails concept was exceptional. However while focused on the Rails framework and the […]
Read MoreWordPress upgraded and new theme
Today I got in the mood of upgrading. Until now I was running WordPress 1.5 on this website. As you understand it was starting to get in the way since all new plugins (and new versions of old ones) where done for version 2.0. So I took the bold step to upgrade a live site […]
Read MoreDol Ammad – Ocean Dynamics
I normally don’t write posts about music. But this is going to change. The last months I got to know a briliantly talented and gifted person : Thanasis Lightbridge. Thanasis is a music composer, producer, keyboardist and drummer. He and his band, Dol Ammad, are trying to create a new music gender. Something that tries […]
Read MoreHDR Procedural Skies
The under development branch of Sylphis3D is going to support high quality terrain rendering. At the moment the terrain rendering code is in place and produces some very nice views! However the sky support was limited to skybox rendering. At first I thought I would just go for some HDR textured skybox. This was good […]
Read MoreThe new PC arrived!
I just got the new PC for the office… Check this specs out : AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 1GB RAM 150 GB HDD and the video graphics accelerator beast!!! : NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 with 1GB Video RAM I can tell you the performance is mind blowing! I get 500 frames/s […]
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