CUDA 5
In this article, I will introduce the reader to CUDA 5.0. I will briefly talk about the architecture of the Kepler GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) and I will show you how you can take advantage of the many CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) cores in the GPU to create massively parallel programs.
Unity – Scripting
In this article, I will introduce you to scripting in Unity 3.5. Unity is a powerful game editor that only limits you to what you can imagine. Scripting is where the magic happens which will bring your games to life. I assume the reader is familiar the Unity interface, if not you can refer to my previous article titled Introduction to Unity (http://3dgep.com/?p=3246).
This article is intended for designers and artists who have no previous programming experience. For this reason, I will go into details about JavaScript syntax that the experienced programmer may find boring.
Unity
Understanding Quaternions
In this article I will attempt to explain the concept of Quaternions in an easy to understand way. I will explain how you might visualize a Quaternion as well as explain the different operations that can be applied to quaternions. I will also compare applications of matrices, euler angles, and quaternions and try to explain when you would want to use quaterions instead of Euler angles or matrices and when you would not.
Lighting with Cg 3.1
In this article I will demonstrate how to implement a basic lighting model using the Cg shader language. If you are unfamiliar with using Cg in your own applications, then please refer to my previous article titled Introduction to Shader Programming with Cg 3.1.
This article is an updated version of the previous article titled Transformation and Lighting in Cg. In this article, I will not use any deprecated features of OpenGL. I will only use the core OpenGL 3.1 API.
NVIDIA Cg
In this article I will introduce the reader to shader programming using the Cg shader programming language. I will use OpenGL graphics API to communicate with the Cg shaders. This article does not explain how use OpenGL. If you require an introduction to OpenGL, you can follow my previous article titled Introduction to OpenGL.
OpenGL Extensions
Texturing and Lighting
Rendering Primitives
OpenCL
In this article I will provide a brief introduction to OpenCL. OpenCL is a open standard for general purpose parallel programming across CPUs, GPUs, and other programmable parallel devices. I assume that the reader is familiar with the C/C++ programming languages. I will use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to show how you can setup a project that is compiled with the OpenCL API.