Front RAnge Graphics Geeks (FRAGG) will be meeting in Louisville, Colorado on the morning of Saturday April 20th. If you’re interested in attending, please contact us for exact time and location so we can know a headcount for our venue. We have a number of new members, so it should be an interesting get-together with
With the generous cooperation of the original authors, Thomas Klein, Magnus Strengert and Thomas Ertl, we have received the source code to the glslDevil ( http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/glsldevil/ ) GLSL source level debugger. I have uploaded the source as I received it with no modifications, to GitHub: https://github.com/XenonofArcticus/GLSL-Debugger We have not yet even tried to build it.
The Front Range Graphics Geeks met for the first time in 2013 on Saturday Feb 9th in Steamboat Springs, hosted by Mark Mueller. Mark led a tour of his architecturally beautiful highly automated and energy efficient house he is engineering and building and showed his prototype high-temperature dual-mode solar collector design. Mike Weiblen showed off
Check out the new whitepaper on Virtual Planet Builder/OSGDEM.
Check out the new whitepaper on Level of Detail (LOD) in OpenSceneGraph.
As a spin-off of some internal development, our Robot Horde has provided binary builds of Qt 4.8.3 for 32 and 64 bit Linux, MacOSX and Windows (MSVC++ 2008 and 2010) available for free download. Hope on over to the Qt 4.8.3 downloads page and grab whatever release you need. Be sure to read the Build/Usage
We’re starting to populate the Projects Portfolio with some of the cool projects we have been excited to work on over the past few years. More projects will be appearing as we get time and permission to show them off, so check back regularly.
The Front Range Graphics Geeks got together on Saturday Nov 18th after a busy autumn. Some topics covered were Windows 8, WinRT and Windows tablets, osgEarth and Android devices, The Nexus 4 and cellphone carriers, grating-based holographic display, Drobo RAID appliances, textures atlases and texture arrays, prime number charts, OpenGL 4 and A-buffer renderers. FRAGG
I was inspired by “Prime Number Pattern P Mod 40” by Jason Padgett. Padgett was mugged in 2002, sustaining a head injury that caused “a form of synesthesia and savant syndrome”. Jason sees visions of geometrical and mathematical forms and illustrates them. Here’s a video about him. As a fan of prime numbers myself and
I’ve been dabbling in Python recently, and stumbled across the FizzBuzz exercise, so I decided to test myself doing it in Python as a learning experience. Now, since I am the proctor and test subject, I let myself have two concessions: 1. I was going to use a text editor, because this was for my
