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GLSL Hacker 0.5.0 With Python Support
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May 16, 2013
GLSL Hacker is a cross-platform utility (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) for coding 3D demos and prototypes with GLSL, Lua and Python programming languages. GLSL Hacker 0.5.0 adds the support of Python 2.7, improves compute shaders support and fixes many bugs.
NVIDIA launches Nsight Visual Studio Edition 3.0 with OpenGL debugging support
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May 16, 2013
The NVIDIA Developer Tools team is proud to announce the final release of NVIDIA® Nsight Development Platform, Visual Studio Edition 3.0, an application development platform for heterogeneous systems. This new release officially supports OpenGL frame debugging and profiling, GLSL GPU shader debugging, local single GPU shader debugging, the new Kepler GK110 architecture found in Tesla K20 & GeForce GTX TITAN, and CUDA 5.0. This release requires NVIDIA Display Driver Release 319 or newer.
Comparing Hosek-Wilkie and Preetham Sky Models in SilverLining SDK 2.8
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May 15, 2013
The SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK for OpenGL now lets you switch between the new Hosek-Wilkie model presented at the 2012 SIGGRAPH conference, and the 1999 Preetham model for simulating real-time skies for any time and location. A video’s been prepared using SilverLining comparing its extensions to the two models.
How to get Tessellation shaders working in Mac OSX
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May 13, 2013
After GpuTest said it could do tessellation shaders under mac OSX i decided to investigate how to do this as it’s an undocumented feature. This blog post shows how to define the tessellation control and evaluation shaders under mac osx and also how to enable the drawing of GL_PATCHES.
GpuTest 0.4.0: Cross-Platform OpenGL Benchmark
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May 09, 2013
GpuTest is a new OpenGL graphics benchmark tool for Windows, Linux and OS X that includes several 3D tests: one test based on FurMark, one OpenGL 4 tessellation test, one OpenGL 3.3 geometry instancing test and two heavy pixel shader tests. Each test can be launched from the command line (an user interface is available for Windows and OS X) and benchmark results can be saved in a CSV file.
