Clean Rinse | Shampoo for your System

Today, we’ll be looking at a fairly simple, but fundamental concept in modern APIs, and using it to springboard onto talking about some different GPU architectures, and that is, the “PSO”, or “Pipeline State Object”. Motivating this necessity is one...

There’s a certain opinion that graphics programming is a lot more difficult than it used to be. The so-called “Modern APIs”, that is, Direct3D 12, Metal, and Vulkan, introduce a new graphics programming paradigm that can be difficult and opaque to someone...

There’s a lot of fantastic research into 2D graphics rendering these days. Petr Kobalicek and Fabian Yzerman have been working on Blend2D, one of the fastest and most accurate CPU rasterizers on the market, with a novel JIT approach. Patrick Walton of...

I’ve always had a love for the art in video games. Sure, all mediums have some ability to craft worlds from nothing, but none are so realized, so there, as the worlds in video games. It’s also an example of the interplay between “pure art” and computer...