Geeks3D Programming Links – August 03, 2011

Here are some links I tweeted or retweeted about coding, programming and other stuff for developers. If you have a link, just send me a tweet @JeGX.

• Spark: a new real time shading language for modern graphics hardware.
• Unlimited detail is a scam? Read more here and here.
• CryENGINE 3 Rendering Techniques slides available (Gamefest 2011).
• A Gentle Introduction to OpenCL.
• OpenGL: billboarding using the Geometry Shader.
• Deferred Shading in Direct3D 10 with ambient occlusion. Visual Studio 2010 files available.
• freetype-gl: OpenGL texture font using vertex buffer and freetype.
• Tips and Tricks for getting started with OpenGL and GLSL 4.0.
• OpenGL Capabilities Tables of all recent Macs on all recent versions of OS X.
• Order-independent transparency is an important and tough problem. Adaptive transparency is a new solution to that tricky problem.
• Making music with mathematics by iq:
  
  
  
• Preparing for Parallel Optimization: an overview of key steps to follow for optimizing your code for multi-core CPUs.
• Lot of information about PowerVR GPUs.
• Inline Assembler for Über Nerds: an introduction to Inline assembler (IA)
• Graphics programming: review of some methods to get well-behaved specular highlights.
• Six common misperceptions about teamwork: read more…
• Game development: FXAA 3.11 released.
• MacOS X 10.7 released with OpenGL 3.2 support.
• Learning a programming language by reading a manual is like learning a language by reading a dictionary. Read more…
• OpenGL: new website for NeHe (details here).
• Code snippet: how to multiply a batch of vec3 by the same 4×4 matrix (C and SSE optimized versions).
• Comic book reader for Linux, MacOSX and Windows with source code in C++: comical.sourceforge.net.
• C++: four useful new features in C++0x.
• C++: the use of constexpr (or generalized constant expressions) for the need of speed.
• Overview of HTML5 audio formats support in modern browsers (WAV, MP3, Ogg and AAC).)
• An OpenGL ES 2.0 tutorial for iPhone: simple texture mapping
• Ray and polygons , depth buffer tricks by iq
• It’s official: developers get better with age. And scarcer too!
• C++ Big Integer Library: with this lib, you can do arithmetic on integers of size limited only by your computer’s memory…
• Debugging C++ with Visual Studio: an interesting post about the use of the Visual Studio​ debugger.
• A WebGL demo for gardeners: The beanstalk (blog post).
• Low-Poly Modelling tutorial (screencast) for programmers using Blender.
• Call graphs are very useful in understanding how a program works. Here are two ways to generate them: Call graph generation. Another way is to use Doxygen.
• Demoscene, Direct3D 11 real time raytracing in 4k: Traskogen by Loonies: