BlackHC's Adventures

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]

I’ve quite a few things I’ve wanted to write about a long time ago and I actually started working on them and taking notes, etc. but never found time for one reason or another to write and publish the actual posts. So this is meant as fast forward of all... [Read More]