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I've talked about Bilinear vs. Bicubic filtering before in the context of 2D images, but bilinear filtering is a key ingredient in 3D graphics, too. When a texture is applied to a polygon, the texture may be scaled up or down to fit, depending on your screen resolution.
A co-worker and I went over to Scott's house today at around 1pm PST to pick something up for work. Scott just got a new television, so he demoed it for us, flipping through the channels, comparing HD signals to regular signals and so forth. As we were
VIA's Nano-ITX fits an entire PC motherboard into an impossibly small 12 by 12 centimeter format: This board has been gestating for a while at VIA, and according to the nanoitx blog [http://nanoitx.blogspot.com/], it's evidently because of interference and heat problems presented by
Every few years, Jakob Nielsen takes websites to task with a Top Ten Web Design Mistakes article. Although things have clearly improved since the original 1996 list, I'm particularly concerned that in the competitive frenzy to get all JavaScripted up for Web 2.0, we may be defeating
I'm a huge fan of Beagle Brothers style cheat sheets, because nothing promotes the illusion of mastery like a densely packed chart of obscure reference information: Just throw some of those babies up on your walls and people will know that they're clearly dealing with a
Don Park recently made an interesting observation about how his family uses the computer [http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/EntryViewPage.aspx?guid=27ea0bf8-abda-40f4-aa23-493461c54f26] : > When I observe how my wife and son uses the family computer, I can't help noticing how little use they have for the
For better or worse, I've been a Microsoft fan since Windows 3.1. Microsoft is far from perfect, but the alternatives were always so much worse. Can you imagine a dystopian future where we're all running IBM's OS/2 2004 and Lotus Notes Express?
My favorite holiday tradition is the white elephant gift exchange. If you don't have these in your family or at your workplace, you're missing out on a lot of fun. Maybe I'm easily amused, but it's consistently the most fun I'
Philip Chu's Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers [http://www.technicat.com/writing/programming.html] is witty, eloquent, and peppered with illustrative real world anecdotes: > Upon joining an early-stage startup called Neomar, I found myself in two months of design meetings for a wireless internet portal that
I've been a PC racing game enthusiast since the day I wrapped my hands around my first force-feedback wheel in 1999-- the classic wire driven Logitech Formula Force [http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=61]. There's something about a quality steering wheel with physics-driven force
Although I'm no fan of MacromediaAdobe Flash, I have to admit the sIFR JavaScript / Flash typography hack is remarkably well thought out and quite effective. Here's a small GIF movie of it in action: It always bugged me that our only alternative for decent web typeface
The CSS Zen Garden [http://www.csszengarden.com] site isn't exactly new news these days, but I've been digesting the excellent CSS Zen Garden book [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321303474/codihorr-20] over the last few months and we now have an opportunity to