Now i know that by the looks of it we will never have HTML 6, but humor me a bit on that one point, now i have done my fair share of websites and HTML coding both professionally and otherwise and there are definitely limitations and annoyances with html and im sure that after about 2 minutes of googling you might find 200 pages saying the same thing.
But these here in this list is definitely some that i think needs adding. Read more »
Indeed what is web 3.0, if you read wikipedia you will read a short segment about the “semantic web” which is essentially about making human readable pages machine readable as well and vise versa. But to me that doesn’t sound that three-point-oh-ish, especially if you take in consideration that 2.0 is all about collaboration and sharing, in my mind you have to use some common factor to quantify what version it is. Read more »
Transform feedback, is one of the tools of the trade not often discussed on the net, in fact i couldn’t find a single tutorial, so i better write one. the essential function of this little feature is to enable you to do very complicated stuff in the geometry shader, stuff that would inevitably make things run slowly, or to assemble a vbo using tiny little parts and then save it to a buffer for later use, or for that matter constant use. Read more »
In this part we will be doing a bit of simple geometry instancing with a minecraft twist, basically what we are going to do is first generate a volumetric landscape of sorts, then render it using cubes, but not the usual way, we are going to do it as a particle system, which is i guess a little bit more than usual as it involves other stuff than strictly openGL, and since there are a few things i want to try out in this field you will be seeing more of it.
This tutorial assumes that you have all the stuff needed for part 1 and in addition texturing available. Read more »
New in OpenGL 3.2 is so called geometry shaders, if you don’t know what they are then what the essentially do is allow you to create new or duplicate geometry. Like instead of drawing a bunch of cubes one after another you could just render a point cloud and let the geometry shader “upgrade” them to cubes, which is probably how i would render minecraft if i where it’s creator, which i would if i had a hat half as awesome as notch does.
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While 2010 was the year that android matured trough it’s early childhood, this year will be all about market saturation, we will see it grow with 3.0 and become something more than ios could ever be.
In other news we will also see a lot of technology mature and even though little might be released it will provide 2012 with great promises. Read more »
Welcome to my predictions for 2011, for this year i decided to change the format a bit to make it more readable, more specific and a bit less vague, so this year I’m doing a top ten and two top fives, both for gaming and for the other stuff, which incidentally requires me to use two posts, otherwise you would be reading it for quite some time. so today we start with games, and in about a week or so the rest, and after that i have something planned that i know you all been waiting for, if i finish it soon then the first two months of 2011 would be pretty full for this site. Read more »
2010 the year that things happened, a oil well leaked, gays can serve in the military (the us one that is, we have had it for ever), i got a second stomach and lost about 20Kg or 44,09245243697552lbs give or take a pund or so. the tech market also expanded as we saw the first 3D tvs along with a crap load of android devices.
There is a quote on the top of the front page that say something like ” if you don’t have any white plastic on your device your some kind of retard” poetic words from penny arcade said five years ago referring to ipods and other devices, but looking at the 2011 CES those words hold true today only you have to change “white plastic” to “black plastic and android”, they had it running on everything from phones, tabs, tv sets, cars, refrigerators, headphones and so forth. So how did my predictions go then. Read more »
By this time tomorrow i will be at the hospital getting ready to have surgery first thing Monday morning and at the moment i am somewhat nervous to say the least, but hopefully it will allow will turn a new leaf and get on the right track. If all goes well i will be up and about by Tuesday, though in case i don’t well i really don’t care at that point. Read more »
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May 7, 2011 00:44 | 
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