20120416 Mesh subdivision (2012 extended edition)

Back in 2004, when I was starting to experiment with OpenGL, I had the idea of creating meshes from scratch. This will come in handy for intros, since this way I won’t be needing to include the meshes’ data with the executable!, I thought. I would create a simple base pyramidal mesh, and subdivide it [...]

20110830 Demoscene @ Salt Lake City

I was going through the directories in the BlasterSound BBS archive, finding out what hidden jewels are in there and lo and behold!, I found one of those: a demo by a group from Salt Lake City, Utah! The demoscene is generally considered to be a mostly European phenomenon, so manifestations in other continents are [...]

20101011 LASE by marcan & thePope

It seems Marcan managed to rebuild his DIY laser projector (which incidentally burnt out right after we saw it in action for its last public broadcast :D) and he’s recorded a new, crisp and clean video of the output: I hadn’t noticed some of the details when I watched it at the party, such as [...]

20101010 Euskal 2010 demoshow

I was making a much overdue hard disk clearance, when I found the videos from the demoshow I prepared for past Euskal. Since it’s a bit silly to upload the videos anywhere (because they already are somewhere in the internets) and it’s not very practical for watchers anyway, I decided to look for the videos [...]

20100913 Misclinklanea, 3

Solar powered hotspots. Beautiful and exciting story. More like these, please –these projects fascinate me! ~ The Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino (Spain’s equivalent to DEFRA) doesn’t get it: the new version of its own cartographic and satellite maps viewer (SIGPAC) will use Silverlight. Yet another failed opportunity to jump onto [...]