Robotic Pandas
On abstractions for building next generation user interfaces that utilize programmable GPUs to provide naturalistic and cinematic experiences.
Designing a GPU-oriented geometry abstraction – Part Two.
My last post described the problem of crafting an appropriate geometry abstraction for Bling. Bling...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 11/20/2009
Designing a GPU-oriented geometry abstraction – Part One.
One the inputs of rendering via programmable shading on a modern graphics card is a collection of...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 11/19/2009
What is a programmable abstraction?
In a recent blog post I described the principles behind Bling’s design. The primary principle is...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 07/30/2009
Announcing Bling 3!
I’d like to announce a newly rewritten release of Bling with many improvements and exciting new...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 07/26/2009
Fun(ctional) graphics in C#!
Graphics programming often involves customizing and combining well known techniques as mathematic...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 07/20/2009
Bling WPF hits V1
I'd like to announce a new and improved version of Bling WPF. In this version, we have redone the...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 02/20/2009
Shading Blobs with Bling WPF!
I updated Bling WPF to version 0.6, get it at the normal place (https://www.codeplex.com/bling)....
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 10/28/2008
Angles as doubles considered harmful
One problem with the .NET library is the inconsistent use of radians and degrees to represent...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 10/25/2008
Writing WPF pixel shaders in C#!
This week I saw a great project, Brahma, on expressing shader-based GPU computation in C#/LINQ....
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 10/17/2008
Twilight of the High-level UI Toolkit
I was reading Tim Sweeney’s write up on how fixed function GPUs and the APIs that depend on them are...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 10/07/2008
Reaction Diffusion using WriteableBitmap
For a while, I’ve been experimenting with reaction diffusion to provide for more “life like”...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 10/07/2008
Curved Polygons in WPF!
I found something on the web https://www.antigrain.com/research/bezier_interpolation/index.html about...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 10/06/2008
So long Jay.
As a young PhD student about 10 years ago, I started out at the University of Utah in the lab of Jay...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 09/18/2008
WPF CompositionTarget.Rendering/Animation Responsiveness
Check out the following small program: public partial class App : Window { [STAThread] public static...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 09/13/2008
Signals for WPF in C# AND XAML!
I would like to introduce the WPF signal library on codeplex, which is my wrapper around .NET 3.5...
Author: Sean McDirmid Date: 09/10/2008