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Tut 06: The iOS Way
December 7th, 2012 by Eric Berna
I had a choice when porting to iOS Jason L. McKesson’s example programs from his book Learning Modern 3D Graphics. Since Xcode supports including C++ code in iOS apps in combination with Objective C, I could have kept to C++ and tried to get McKesson’s programs to run on iOS with minimal changes. Mostly this [...]
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Tut 05: The Missing Apps
December 4th, 2012 by Eric Berna
As I’ve already covered, OpenGL ES is a subset of Open GL. Chapter 5 of Learning Modern 3D Graphics by Jason L. McKesson has two tutorial programs specifically highlighting features of desktop OpenGL ES that are not included in OpenGL ES 2.0. These shortcoming of OpenGL ES make porting the examples to iOS rather pointless, [...]
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Tut O1 Hello Triangle
July 24th, 2012 by Eric Berna
This post describes the first example program in my Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming on iOS series (see the announcement). The Hello, Triangle! app shows how to get started by building a very basic program that merely draws a triangle to the screen. My implementation is a blending of Xcode’s iOS OpenGL Game template and [...]
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It’s a Race
June 28th, 2012 by Eric Berna
Who’s faster at shipping to me from China? FedEx or UPS? I ordered two products from Apple on one order. Both were made in China, and shipped straight to me from the manufacturer. UPS was tasked with delivering the product made in Shanghai, and FedEx was tasked with delivering the product made in Chengdu. Apple [...]
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I Don’t Interview Well
March 17th, 2011 by Eric Berna
I failed a job interview last week. I froze up in the middle of the interview, and couldn’t pull the information I needed out of my head. Some Background I would really like to work for this consulting and development company near where I live. I learned about the company because I’ve become friends with [...]
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Another Game
March 10th, 2011 by Eric Berna
What I’m Working on Now My current iOS project is another game. This one is a bit more ambitious than my first game, Nora’s Bubbles. It’s sort of hard to describe without showing the game, but the game is not ready for showing. It’s a nonviolent flying game, with constrained controls and escalating difficulty. I’m [...]
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My Final Semester
December 31st, 2010 by Eric Berna
After far too many years I’ve completed my bachelor’s degree. I outline why earning my degree took so long in another post. I took two classes my final semester, Intelligent User Interfaces and Digital Image Processing. Both classes were graduate level courses that admitted undergraduate students, so each required a significant level of work. I did [...]
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Web Site Digression
June 24th, 2010 by Eric Berna
I wasn’t happy with this website. I needed this site to do more work with less effort from me. So I took a week off of iOS development, and focused instead on redeveloping this website. On day one I considered my options. Well, not all of my options. There are so many ways to build [...]
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