BlackHC's Adventures

I’ve already written about the semi-conductor project and how I’ve written some Flash animations/applications for it. Of course, I’m more interested in making fun stuff1, so I’ve decided to put my knowledge to good use and write a small game to see how difficult/awkward Flash actually is. of course, the... [Read More]

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture - A System of Patterns (PoSA I) [Read More]

Because people complained to me about the formula feature in my PowerPointLaTeX add-in, which used a somewhat experimental approach to editing formula objects by adding an editing text shape that contained the formula code and that would be merged back into the formula as soon as you deselect it, I... [Read More]

I’ve written my last exam yesterday (except for two oral exams in September), so now I have got some spare time before I start working on my Bachelor Thesis tomorrow and I want to use it to wrap up a few things. [Read More]

At my new workplace at university I’m currently porting an advanced terrain rendering engine from DirectX to OpenGL. One of the performance optimizations the engine uses is that it draws the terrain tiles right from the index buffer without using a vertex buffer at all - that is it packs... [Read More]