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Shadertoy To GLSL Hacker Demos (May 17, 2013)

JeGX — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:06:16 +0000

cells Here is a selection of some recent Shadertoy demos ported to GLSL Hacker. All demos are available in GLSL Hacker code sample pack in the GLSL_ShaderToy/ folder. - angels - apollonian - truchet...

PlanetSide 2 Tech Video, PhysX Effects

JeGX — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:37:02 +0000

Tramell Isaac (Art Director) and Ryan Elam (Technical Director) talk about the creation of PlanetSide 2 and PhysX effects.

Python Primer for the Impatient

JeGX — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:48:48 +0000

1 – Comments 2 – Variables 3 – Indentation 4 – Functions 5 – Operators 6 – Control Structures 7 – Built-in functions Python is one of the scripting languages...

Lua Primer for the Impatient

JeGX — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:49:09 +0000

1 – Comments 2 – Variables 3 – Functions 4 – Tables 5 – Operators 6 – Control Structures 7 – Built-in functions Lua is one of the scripting languages...

OpenGL Interpolation Qualifiers (GLSL)

JeGX — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:39:54 +0000

OpenGL 3 introduced three interpolation qualifiers that are at our disposal in the vertex and fragment shaders. These interpolation qualifiers allow to specify the way a vertex shader output is...

GLSL Hacker 0.5.0 Released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, Python Support Added

JeGX — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:42:49 +0000

1 – GLSL Hacker Overview 2 – GLSL Hacker Downloads 3 – GLSL Hacker Changelog 1 – GLSL Hacker 0.5.0 overview A new version of GLSL Hacker is finally available. I don’t...

NVIDIA R320.14 Beta for Windows

JeGX — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:34:02 +0000

NVIDIA has published a new set of graphics driver in beta version for all GeForce cards. This is the GeForce Game Ready driver for Metro: Last Light providing up to 10% faster performance. Get...

OpenGL 4 Tessellation on Mac OS X

JeGX — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:34:08 +0000

Here is a quick note about the state of OpenGL 4 tessellation on Mac OS X (10.8). The results are based on the feedbacks of TessMark, the tessellation demo of GpuTest 0.4.0. The code of TessMark is...

GpuTest Added to Phoronix Test Suite

JeGX — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:17:47 +0000

Micheal Larabel just informed me that he added the latest iteration of GpuTest to Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org. The introduction of GPUTest to Phoronix Test Suite /...

NVIDIA FaceWorks Realtime DX11 Tech-Demo Available

JeGX — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:36:28 +0000

NVIDIA has released its realistic human face animation demo shown GDC 2013. FaceWorks is a tech-demo for the GeForce GTX Titan. I successfully ran it on a GTX 660 with framerates around 20FPS at FHD...

GpuTest 0.4.1 for Windows with Bugfix for Intel HD Graphics GPUs

JeGX — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:16:48 +0000

Here is a new version of GpuTest for Windows only. I managed to reproduce the crash of GpuTest 0.4.0 reported by RandyR on my Intel Ivy Bridge testbed. In my case, GpuTest crashes with driver...

AMD Radeon HD 9970 (Volcanic Islands) GPU Details Emerge

JeGX — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:11:14 +0000

The next generation of AMD Radeon GPU (HD 8000 or Sea Islands) is not yet released and leaks about its successor, the Volcanic Islands GPUs is popping up. Here are some details about the possible...

AudioSmoke: Sound-Responsive CUDA Based Particles

JeGX — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:54:36 +0000

I already wrote about Visual Compute HERE and their CUDA experiments. Their latest experiment is done with AudioSmoke, a realtime 3D visual computing application written in C#. AudioSmoke aims to...

GpuTest 0.4.0: Cross-Platform OpenGL Benchmark Released, OpenGL 4 Tessellation Test Enabled Under Mac OSX

JeGX — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:43:39 +0000

TessMark: OpenGL 4 tessellation under Mac OSX 1 – GpuTest Overview 2 – GpuTest Downloads 3 – GpuTest Changelog 1 – GpuTest 0.4.0 Overview GpuTest is a 64-bit cross-platform...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 First Pictures

JeGX — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:54:01 +0000

The first pictures of upcoming NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 are popping up on the Net. The GTX 770 that should be launch in few weeks at the end of this month comes with the same VGA cooler than the GTX...

CUDA-Z 0.7.181 for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX

JeGX — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:31:10 +0000

CUDA-Z is GPU tool like GPU-Z or GPU Caps Viewer that gives you information about your GPU(s). And as its name says it, CUDA-Z is focused on NVIDIA CUDA GPU computing API. NVIDIA CUDA being available...

NVIDIA R319.17 Certified Driver for Linux

JeGX — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:38:31 +0000

NVIDIA has published a new set of graphics drivers for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. R319.17 is a certified driver (like WHQL in Windows’ world), adds the support of GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST (as...

AMD Catalyst 13.4 for Linux (FGLRX Driver)

JeGX — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:55:54 +0000

AMD has released a new graphics driver for Linux that supports all Radeon HD 5000/6000/7000 videocards. The new feature of Catalyst 13.4 for Linux are: RHEL 6.4 Production Support OpenCL Console Mode...

AMD Catalyst 13.4 WHQL Released with New OpenGL 4.3 Extensions

JeGX — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:08:47 +0000

AMD has released a new set of WHQL drivers for Radeon HD 5000/6000/7000 videocards. Catalyst 13.4 adds the support added for AMD Radeon HD 7790 and AMD Radeon HD 7990, brings some optimizations for...

GPU Fluid Simulation using Position Based Fluids

JeGX — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:54:28 +0000

Here is a new fluid simulation on GPU based on the PBD framework (Position Based Dynamics) that improves the SPH alogrithm by enforcing the fluid incompressibility. Position Based Fluids will be...