Diary of a Graphics Programmer

The book "Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?" can be found at https://www.kernel.org/pub/linu...

I think using C99 in game development could be useful for large teams, especially if they are distributed over several locations. So I th...

GPU Programming With the new console generation and the advances in PC hardware, compute support is becoming more important in games. The ...

I updated my demo skeleton in the google code repository. It is using now Visual Studio 2013, that now partially supports C99 and therefore...

This is the text version of my talk at KGC 2013. The main motivation for the talk was the idea of looking for fundamental changes that ca...

I will be a speaker on the Korean Game Developer Conference this year. This is my third time and I am very much enjoying it. This year I w...

There were more talks about Confetti's work on TressFX on SIGGRAPH: One talk by Jason Lacroix was: "Adding More Life to Your Char...

I would like to highlight the talk "Crafting a Next-Gen Material Pipeline for The Order: 1886": http://blog.selfshadow.com/publ...

One of the new features of DirectX 11.2 and now OpenGL 4.4 is Tiled Resources . Tiled Resources allow to manage one large texture in "...

I was looking through some of the links I saved for further reading today. An article explaining BC compression formats with a lot of det...

Yesterday Microsoft awarded me with a MVP award for Visual C++. Now that DirectX is part of Visual C++, I was moved into the Visual C++ cat...

Google making a console is an interesting news item. Like Apple they can utilize standard mobile phone parts and extend Android to support ...

Here is a way on how modern game engines can light scenes. I was just describing this in a forum post: the idea is following what the CG mo...

This is part of a response in a discussion forum I did recently and it summarizes a lot of the things I did a few years ago with renderer d...

I added the blogs of Angelo Pesce, Fabian Giesen, Christian Schueler, Ignacio Castaño, Morten Mikkelsen and Sebastien Lagarde to the link l...

My first outline for a new GPU Programming class at UCSD. Let me know what you think: First Class Overview -- DirectX 11.1 Graphics ...

Here is the latest GPU Pro 4 book. I am helping to create those books now since 12 years. For GPU Pro 5 we will have a huge amount of ...

Here is a blog entry I wrote on DirectCompute for INTEL working with an Ivy Bridge machine. http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/micro...

DirectCompute opened up new abilities to apply lighting to a scene. In the last three years, dealing with many lights in screen-tiles on Di...

Game connection will offer another Masterclass with me on GDC: http://www.game-connection.com/gameconn/content/gpu-programming

Lot's of things are happening. Confetti will have three demos running on a PC on the booth: 1. RawK III that shows our latest version ...

I started to revive this blog after posting for a while on AltDevBlogADay. I first brought my old posts over from AltDev and started working...

About 8 or ten years ago I started thinking about doing a graphics demo for the demo scene. I started to prepare a minimum skeleton that sho...

I plan to update this blog in the next couple of days with more information as soon as it becomes available. The upgrade from DirectX 11 ...

The design rule of "Even Error-Distribution" is very common in everything we do as graphics/engine programmers. Compared to the ...

One of the design principles I apply to graphics systems nowadays is to avoid any look-up table. That means not only mathemetical look-up ta...

Since programming GPUs allow one to design more complex graphics systems, I started to develop a few simple rules that have survived the tes...