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The Field Guide to North American Stones
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
There are men whose deeds ring out across the history books
Centuries, even millenia, after they have died
Giants who molded earth and men
Others the world remembers for a generation's time
Great works for king and country fading
As brilliant medals tarnish and heros age
Yet more ply only fifteen minutes on the stage ...
He Stands
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Their waves of disappointment
Crash over this old stone
And dooming imperfections
Grow with every blow
Making waves rise higher
Until they strike him low
But for today I stand
Against the tidal flow
Tessellation doesn't crash any more (But glReadPixels will crash the whole operating system pretty hard...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Spent some time on OpenGL-ctypes this evening. First up was eliminating the crashes in the GLU tessellation code. That was mostly just passing in the wrong values for use as callbacks (I was passing in a cCallbak, it wanted a c_void_p). Unfortunately, the tessellation doesn't seem to work yet, but at least it doesn't kill ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.