Programming, Computer graphics, Games
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Charilaos Kalogirou
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Working heavily on pixel shaders the last few days, I came to realize some facts about the current way of treating the GPUs and how that way is inefficient/impractical and really doesn’t allow us to fully harness the powers of GPUs.
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Having a digital camera at my disposal for the last 4 years, I can tell you: Photographs are a big load of data to manage. The trouble is not obvious from the beginning but after counting some GB’s of photos it really get hard to find photos. I used some photo management software before (mostly […]
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Do you want to do a fun thing? Try running Azureus on a laptop running Debian with 128MB of RAM… JAVA to the people!!! 🙂
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It is a common thing in programming languages, and a sign of maturity to implement a language in the language itself. This however is not common
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Unfortunately noone can be told what Perl 6 is… You have to see it for yourself. Read this on slashdot today… 🙂
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Yes, the hype got me! I don’t know if you noticed it, but lately everyone seems to be talking about Ruby on Rails. No matter what web stone you peek up, you find Ruby-on-Rails under it. Until now the only thing I knew about Ruby was that it is a language closely related to Python.
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Recently there was a spike in the ELKS mailing list. For those that don’t know what ELKS is, let me tell you that is is basically Linux-86; the port of Linux for the 8086 and 80286 processors. An email with subject “HELP WANTED” caused a thread of responses. The mail came from Miguel Bolanos with […]
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A friend asked me some time ago if the implementation of the heap data structure in the STL has update functions. He couldn’t find any documentation about an update_heap() function. He was as sure as I was (some time ago) that
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I’ve been watching closely Blender since it became open source. It was when I was looking for a modeler to be used with Sylphis3D. I must say it is a modeler that catches the eye. You see very impressive renderings, stunning videos and when you try to download the program you realize that we are […]
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id did it! The source to the famous Quake III engine is out. The ftp site at id software is full of downloaders… get it while its hot!
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