Recently the village my father was born in got a web site! The village is located in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, in northwest Greece, 90km north to Ioannina and is part of the Mastorohoria villages. North to the famous Zagorohoria. I think it’s the most beautiful village in the world 😉
Read MoreI am back…
Well for those that noticed my absence, I’m back! I apologize for all this time that the blog was silent. You can go ahead and submit you complaints at http://www.haf.gr. Stay tuned for a more detailed explanation of what happend… army
Read MoreHow to do good bloom for HDR rendering
One thing that makes HDR rendering impressive is the bloom effect. In fact even if bloom is in a sense decoupled from HDR rendering, it is often confused with HDR. There are 3d engines out there that advertise bloom for HDR rendering, which is nonsense. You can have HDR rendering without bloom, and you can […]
Read MoreHDRR screenshots
Here are some screenshots of the HDRR implementation in Sylphis3D. Sylphis3D is now capable of HDRR on video cards starting from ATI Radeon 9600 and nVidia FX5200 and up. (Yeap… no need for those expensive nVidia 6800 cards)…
Read MoreProgrammable GPUs and the programming method
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.
Read MoreHDR lighting… possibilities…
The sillent blog the last few days is due to the heavy work going on in Sylphis3D… I have almost completed
Read MoreAttacked by the spammers
The last days my blog is under attack! Comment spammers have targeted it and I get arround 50 spam comments every day. Fortunately the spam filter is adding them to the moderation queue and they don’t go live on the site. The downside is that I have to go and delete each one of them […]
Read MoreGoogle photo management = Picasa 2
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 […]
Read MoreFirst there was DOOM 3, then Quake 4 and now Prey
This really starts to get interesting… First there was DOOM 3, then there was Quake 4. You could easily say that Quake 4 was an expansion to DOOM 3. In graphics terms I really couldn’t tell the difference. And I don’t mean technology, it was like they used the same textures. The two games looks […]
Read MoreWashing the car after 4 months
Of cource you know Murphy’s Laws about washing your car. I tell you they are all true. You see
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