Clean Rinse | Shampoo for your System

Matrix multiplication in graphics APIs is ridiculously confusing. People are often confused about the right order of multiplying their matrices, and about row-major, column-major, pre-multiplication, post-multiplication, row vectors and column vectors...

Tell me if this sounds familiar. You want to write a renderer. OpenGL seems beginner-friendly, and there’s lots of tutorials for you to get started, but you also know it’s deprecated, kind of dead, and mocked; not for “real graphics programmers”, whatever...

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...