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NVIDIA GPU Programming Guide Updated for GeForce 8/9

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:15:49 GMT

NVIDIA has updated its GPU Programming Guide and this new version is focused specifically on the GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs.

GPU Gems 3: Chapters 11, 12, and 13 Online

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:15:49 GMT

Three new chapters of GPU Gems 3 are now available and cover the following topics: Shadow Volumes Using Hierarchical Occlusion Culling and Geometry Shaders, High-Quality Ambient Occlusion and Volumetric Light Scattering.

How To Load and Display an Image with DevIL and OpenGL

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:03:45 GMT

This tutorial shows how to load an image file with DevIL 1.7.5 and use it as a texture in OpenGL. Demo binaries as well as source code are provided.

Free Online Book: "Programming Vertex, Geometry and Pixel Shaders"

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:23:22 GMT

This a very nice Xmas gift for computer graphics developers: a free online book about vertex, geometry and pixel shaders programming in Direct3D 9 and 10.

Hilva Graphics Engine

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:04:58 GMT

Mahdi Khodadadi Fard has released new version of his XNA graphics engine: Hilva. The new version supports hardware shadow maps and there are lots of small changes and improvement comparing with previous versions, specially in materials and HDR rendering system.

AMD/ATI GPU Tools Updates: Xmas Gifts for Graphics Developers!

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:00:52 GMT

AMD/ATI has updated several tools and libraries for graphics developers to analyze your GPU applications, optimize performance, compress and optimize meshes and textures.

How To Create an OpenGL 3.0 Context with ForceWare 181.00

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:24:55 GMT

Here is a short tutorial about how to create an OpenGL 3.0 rendering context with the latest ForceWare 181.00 graphics drivers. This post also lists the five new OpenGL extensions exposed by ForceWare 181.00.

Free Texture Pack for Realtime 3D

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:43:42 GMT

Free texture pack for realtime 3D applications. Almost all textures are seamless 256×256 pixels in PNG format and cover the following categories: bricks, marble, metal. stone, wood, walls and floor.

ATI Catalyst 8.8 vs 8.7: OpenGL Performance Drop

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:32:29 GMT

ATI Catalyst 8.8 graphics drivers have been released few days ago, and today Geeks3D has done some tests to compare OpenGL performance between Catalyst 8.8 and Catalyst 8.7. The conclusion is rather unexpected...

ForceWare 177.89: OpenGL Extensions and OpenGL 3.0 Code Sample

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:26:20 GMT

Forceware 177.89 are the first drivers to offer the OpenGL 3.0 support. This post lists the OpenGL extensions supported by Forceware 177.89 WinXP 32 drivers for a GeForce GTX 280 and shows how to get the wglCreateContextAttribsARB that makes it possible to create an OpenGL 3.0 rendering context.