I suddenly had a desire to calculate square roots. It’s been one of those things that just sits at the back of my mind lingering.
When drawing basic primitives we want nice smooth edges. This means both pixel correctness and antialiasing. In my previous article about drawing a rectangle I
I need to make a quick variation of a function. The calculation, or behaviour, differs slightly on the needs of the caller. I throw in
My previous article explains how I draw a rounded rectangle using a shader instead of tesselation. The biggest remaining issue is using eight calls to
What do you do when all normal debugging means fail? You can reproduce a bug, but the debugger just doesn’t seem to pinpoint it. Print
I’ve been working a lot lately on gestures and am currently working on a swipe-in panel class. Mostly we take these controls and behaviours for
Any interface involving touch will inevitably need to know how fast the user is moving their finger. They touch the screen, drag their finger, release
Device independent pixels, or points, are a convenient way to design for multiple devices. They allow a consistent layout without worrying about exact pixel densities.
A floating point demon had attacked my rendering code. Instead of drawing a nice straight line I’d get a devil’s tail flurried with barbs. It
I wanted to come up with a shattered glass effect for my game. That didn’t quite work as intended, but I was nonetheless happy with
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