Ars Technica

line ends on OpenGL wide lines

If I interpret the glLineWidth documentation correctly, an oblique wide line should have the correct line caps, i.e. turning a wide line around its centre should behave as if rotating the equivalent ...
Ars Technica

VLC performance - using OpenGL for image drawing

I've been working on VLC for a couple of years and, for the last few days, I'm working on a new OpenGL video output to replace the current one (which uses QuickTime to render the picture on the screen ...
gamedev

OpenGL: A simple C++ memory manager for triangle mesh data (that allows for very few draw calls, even just 1) -- Part 1

Today, i'm going to show you how to write a simple memory manager for managing OpenGL mesh data. The OpenGL requirements for this are relatively simple, and you'll need the following: -The byte size ...
Hackaday

OpenGL In 500 Lines (Sort Of…)

How difficult is OpenGL? How difficult can it be if you can build a basic renderer in 500 lines of code? That’s what [Dmitry] did as part of a series of tiny applications. The renderer is part of a ...