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OpenGL 3.0 Spec Released – Community Revolts

It looks like the OpenGL 3.0 spec has finally been released by the Khronos™ Group and so far the community response has been: “You can shove that right back up your ass, we are going to DirectX”. Ouch… Shortly after the announcement game development forums were a-buzz with negative reactions to the spec essentially saying that it [...]

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glTail.rb: Real Time OpenGL Log Visualization

“Fudgie” took a personal challenge from his boss to see if he could make log visualization interesting from your Apache log file. 1 week, some Ruby and some OpenGL later he created glTail.rb; a real-time Apache log visualization toolthat uses OpenGL to render some interesting effects that represent traffic (Supported on Mac and Linux). It’s hard [...]

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