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Cool Link Stash, May & June 2013

Martin Ecker — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:02:32 +0000

Graphics Matt Swoboda (aka Smash of demoscene fame) posted two interesting posts on real-time GPU ray tracing. In the first post he mostly talks about the various techniques he tried, and in the second post he discusses some more implementation … Continue reading →

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Cool Link Stash, April 2013

Martin Ecker — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:15:54 +0000

I don't have a lot of links for April because I was pretty busy getting married 😛 Nevertheless, here are some links to stuff I had time to check out: Graphics Some interesting research to be published at Eurographics 2013 … Continue reading →

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Cool Link Stash, March 2013

Martin Ecker — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:09:22 +0000

Graphics Fabian Giesen finished his excellent series on low-level optimization of an Intel software occlusion culling sample. The whole series is an excellent read. Highly recommended. Unity 4.1 has a new, useful feature called Property Drawers, which allow you to … Continue reading →

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Cool Link Stash, February 2013

Martin Ecker — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:52:57 +0000

Graphics Simon Yeoung posted a nice article on his blog on his implementation of voxel cone tracing. NVIDIA posted a great article on their site on why to use pre-multiplied alpha called Alpha Blending: To Pre or Not To Pre. … Continue reading →

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Cool Link Stash, January 2013

Martin Ecker — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:07:31 +0000

C++ There's a good video talk up on Channel 9 from the C++ and Beyond 2012 conference called You don't know blank and blank on the different meaning of const and mutable in C++11. In summary, the const keyword in … Continue reading →

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RudeBuild Version 1.3 Released

Martin Ecker — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:27:07 +0000

I just released version 1.3 of RudeBuild, my unity/bulk C++ build tool for Visual Studio 2008-2012. Check out the release notes and download information at http://www.martinecker.com/rudebuild/version-1-3-released/ For those not familiar with the tool, here's a description: RudeBuild is a non-intrusive … Continue reading →

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C++11 Wrap Pattern

Martin Ecker — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:51:29 +0000

Herb Sutter gave a great talk at the C++ and Beyond 2012 conference on concurrency in C++11. The talk had an interesting interlude on how to wrap all functions performed on an existing type T in order to inject any … Continue reading →

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Cool Link Stash, November/December 2012

Martin Ecker — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:54:53 +0000

C++ Scott Meyers has a new article up on his blog on the distinction between std::move and std::forward and their use in move constructors. Bit Twiddling hacks is a great and pretty long compilation of trickery with regards to manipulating … Continue reading →

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Cool Link Stash, October 2012

Martin Ecker — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:44:49 +0000

JavaScript & Web Development Understanding JavaScript OOP is a great article on, well, understanding how OOP works in JavaScript. It's interesting because it's very different from how OOP is implemented in languages like C++, C#, or Java. JavaScript implements prototypical … Continue reading →

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Cool Link Stash, September 2012

Martin Ecker — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:30:05 +0000

From time to time I'm going to be posting a collection of cool links to gamedev-related stuff that I found on the internet over the last couple of weeks. This is the first post in that series. Digital Filters Introduction … Continue reading →

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