gamedev

Shaders for Beginners (with examples in OpenGL and Defold)

I had many problems with understanding shaders, but after getting a grasp - it is so easy, convenient and powerful! I present to you my twisted and very affordable version of understanding this, ...
Linux Journal

Image Processing with OpenGL and Shaders

Using OpenGL and GLUT, you can increase the speed of your image processing by using the power inside your system's GPU. Video games have been making full use of GPUs for years. Now, even nongraphical ...
gamedev

OpenGL API Overhead

In modern projects, to produce a nice looking scene the engine will render thousands of different objects: characters, buildings, landscape, effects and more. Of course, there are several ways to ...
Digit

OpenGL Performance Tips: Atomic Counter Buffers versus Shader Storage Buffer Objects

OpenGL* provides two mechanisms for storing and retrieving data as input and output to shaders. Game developers can choose from either Shader Storage Buffer Objects (SSBOs) or Atomic Counter Buffers ...
Digit

Sharing Surfaces between OpenCL and OpenGL 4.3 on Intel Processor Graphics using implicit synchronization

This example demonstrates the creation of a texture in OpenGL* 4.3 that has a sub-region updated by an OpenCL™ C kernel running on Intel® Processor Graphics with Microsoft Windows*. One example use of ...
Macworld

ATI offers DirectX – OpenGL converter

Graphics chip maker ATI Technologies has released HLSL2GLSL, an open source application designed to help programmers convert graphics code optimized for Windows’ DirectX 9 Application Programming ...