Programming related to the visual representation of information on computer screens.
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Solids as high viscocity Liquids
A friend of mine and I were discussing different idea for allow materials in a world to be destroyed in a very piecemeal fashion and he proposed the idea of representing solids as very viscious ...
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Help making a visual transition with pygame and NumPy
Perhaps this could be better answered on Stack Overflow, but I thought it would be worth posting here. Right now I'm trying to make visual transitions with pygame's surfarray module which uses NumPy. ...
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LOD in modern games
I'm currently working on my master's thesis about LOD and mesh simplification, and I've been reading many academic papers and articles about the subject. However, I can't find enough information about ...
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How do you make use of all texture units on today's graphics cards?
I saw a review of the GeForce GTX 460 graphics card. It has 56 texture units. I'm not that knowledgeable about graphics effects. But, the ones I know use around 3 or 4 texture units. In this ...
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What's a good data structure solution for a scene manager in XNA?
I'm playing with XNA for a game project of myself, I had previous exposure to OpenGL and worked a bit with Ogre, so I'm trying to get the same concepts working on XNA.
Specifically I'm trying to add ...
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What should every graphics programmer write
I've seen this question on SO, but here i want it to focus on GFX.
So in your opinion what applications/features should every aspiring GFX programmer write/change to get better?
Community wiki since ...
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boolean operations on meshes
given a set of vertices and triangles for each mesh. Does anyone know of an algorithm, or a place to start looking( I tried google first but haven't found a good place to get started) to perform ...
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Algorithm for drawing asteroids from, er… Asteroids game?
What would the algorithm be for generating/drawing the asteroid shapes from the original Asteroids game? Is it even an algorithm? Or would they be hard coded shapes?
Here is a screenshot to jog your ...
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Fastest way to create a simple particle effect
I am looking to the fastest way to create really simple particle effect that will be spammed like hell on the game...
Basically, my game looks like a vectrex game, made mostly of lines... I want to ...
