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News

• January 19, 2009
• The second article in the Introduction to Software-based Rendering series has been posted: Triangle Rasterization


• January 3, 2009
• A new tutorial has been posted: Introduction to Software-based Rendering: Simple Line Drawing


• October 13, 2008
• The first release of DromeAudio, a small audio manipulation and playback library written in C++, is now available.

Latest Articles

Tutorial - Introduction to Software-based Rendering: Triangle Rasterization (January 19, 2009)
This article explains how to rasterize triangles. It contains sample C++ code and is accompanied by a demo program with full source code that uses SDL for display.

Tutorial - Introduction to Software-based Rendering: Simple Line Drawing (January 3, 2009)
This tutorial starts off a series of articles on software-based graphics rendering by introducing a simple line drawing algorithm. It contains sample C++ code and is accompanied by a demo program with full source code that uses SDL for display.

Tutorial - Cg Pixel Shaders in OpenGL (July 2, 2004)
This article provides an introduction to writing pixel shaders with the Cg shader programming language and using them in OpenGL with the ARB_fragment_program extension. It contains sample C and Cg code and is accompanied by a simple diffuse lighting demo with full source code.

Tutorial - Stenciled Shadow Volumes in OpenGL (January 18, 2004)
This article explains how to implement shadows in OpenGL, using the popular stenciled shadow volumes technique. Features sample C code and is accompanied by a demo written in C.

Tutorial - Dynamic Lightmaps in OpenGL (November 16, 2003)
This article explains how to implement dynamic lightmaps in OpenGL with multitexturing. Features sample C code and is accompanied by a demo written in C.