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OpenGL Tutorial #5 - Texture Mapping
March 23, 2010
Synopsis: In this tutorial texture mapping using JOGL is introduced. We show how easy it is to load jpg images as textures and do a variety of mapping types including linear and spherical.
March 23, 2010
Synopsis: In this tutorial texture mapping using JOGL is introduced. We show how easy it is to load jpg images as textures and do a variety of mapping types including linear and spherical.
Tech Blog Item - FileHippo brings some automation to windows program upgrades
March 18, 2010
March 18, 2010
The Windows OS is of course, in no way as nice to maintain as most other OSes. There is no apt-get update command at your disposal.
FileHippo is a nice program that will generate a report of which of your programs has available updates. Beta versions are marked as such....
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OpenGL Tutorial #4 - materials and lighting 2: improving realism and refactoring our code
March 12, 2010
Synopsis: We improve upon our last scene demo by refactoring our code and adding a material setting class. We also change our light position to dramatic effect.
March 12, 2010
Synopsis: We improve upon our last scene demo by refactoring our code and adding a material setting class. We also change our light position to dramatic effect.
OpenGL Tutorial #3 - lighting and materials
March 10, 2010
Synopsis: In this tutorial, we add lighting and material properties to our scene.
March 10, 2010
Synopsis: In this tutorial, we add lighting and material properties to our scene.
OpenGL Tutorial #2 - Adding GLUT elements and setting up the viewport
March 09, 2010
Synopsis: In this tutorial we add some prebuilt GLUT shapes and adjust the viewing angle.
March 09, 2010
Synopsis: In this tutorial we add some prebuilt GLUT shapes and adjust the viewing angle.
Tech Blog Item - removing default windows 7 keyboard language keymap shortcut
March 03, 2010
March 03, 2010
For whatever reason, windows 7 comes with the keyboard shortcut 'left shift + alt' switching the keyboard language. It is quite easy to without knowing it, switching the keyboard from US to Canadian French for example and getting weird characters like french accented e's instead of a slash, '\', for example
To prevent this, open up the control panel from the start menu.
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