On The Subject Of Graphics

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  A Metal Renderer in Swift Playgrounds May 19, 2022

  A little while ago I started a project to write a Metal renderer on my iPad in Playgrounds. A brief history is that for various reasons I am often away from my computer but have access to my iPad. I like experimenting …
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  Ray Tracing in One Weekend with Rust Jul 12, 2017

  Recently I was reading through the current edition of Effective Modern C++ which covers up to C++14, and I found myself getting bogged down by the huge number of language features and in particular the caveats around …
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  GL Shaders and Atom Nov 10, 2015

  Coming from IntelliJ, CLion is my favourite C/C++ IDE. It also has many plugins that extend its functionality beyond C++, and one that I’ve found useful while experimenting with game development is the GLSL plugin …
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  GLFW Skeleton Nov 9, 2013

  For convenience, I put a skeleton app with a blank GLFW window on github. The README.md contains usage instructions - it’s Mac oriented at the moment because that’s what I’m developing on, and has …
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  Lana Tetris beta 1 Nov 9, 2013

  Lana Tetris has slowly spiralled towards completion and it’s now in a state where it can be tested. There are currently a great many memory leaks because garbage collection has spoiled me. I’m currently …
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  It Begins... Aug 1, 2013

  I’ve been itching to start Tetris for a while, and since the Snake codebase is in a reasonable state, it’s time to have a stab at implementing this archetypal puzzle game. The first step was to clone the …
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  Snake Full Circle Jul 29, 2013

  One Sunday in May, I implemented a basic version of the classic game Snake in C++. Over the course of the following week I improved the code and added features suggested by Lana, who also created resources in the form of …
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  Snake Development May 25, 2013

  Having got the basic game working, I decided to capitalise on the cross-platform capability of GLFW. This might seem like an odd place to go next, but I’m developing on Mac and Lana runs Windows. I could have …
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  Snake May 20, 2013

  Having spent years contemplating what the perfect game should be and how to build it without a single flaw, I decided to actually do something instead. As I’d never coded a game, I needed a simple task and Lana …

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