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Nicol Bolas

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Should new graphics programmers be learning Vulkan instead of OpenGL?

answered Jun 9, 2016 at 15:43

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What does "st" mean in the context of OpenGL?

answered Jan 13, 2017 at 19:41

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Why can't we have hardware-specific graphics APIs?

answered Aug 29, 2022 at 14:21

24 votes

What are Metal and Vulkan?

answered Oct 24, 2018 at 18:54

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What's the main difference of pipeline process between Vulkan and DX12?

answered Oct 31, 2016 at 14:47

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Why can't I utilize multiple CPU cores with OpenGL like Vulkan?

answered Jan 2, 2017 at 18:47

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Help me grasp Anisotropic Filtering (AF)

answered Apr 30, 2017 at 3:04

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What are the use cases for multiple render passes?

answered Aug 10, 2020 at 14:02

12 votes

Understanding VAO and VBO

answered Oct 22, 2020 at 18:05

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Vulkan: Uniform Buffers versus Push Constants for static data

answered Aug 28, 2017 at 14:33

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Why does opengl perform clipping in clip coordinates?

answered Nov 25, 2017 at 20:17

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Is vkCmdPushDescriptorSetKHR efficient?

answered Jun 13, 2019 at 2:53

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How to do error handling with OpenGL?

answered Dec 3, 2017 at 15:39

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Vulkan: how does host coherence work?

answered Apr 14, 2018 at 2:10

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Shader storage buffer indexing by 4 bytes instead of 3?

answered Nov 2, 2017 at 6:59

7 votes

How am I able to perform perspective projection without a near plane?

answered May 16, 2017 at 16:08

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Fragment shader's output variables

answered Jan 22, 2017 at 3:05

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Binding vs bindless

answered Apr 1, 2021 at 14:09

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Clarifying vulkan glsl std140

answered Mar 27, 2019 at 13:50

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Why do identical polygons not z-fight in OpenGL?

answered Jun 26, 2019 at 17:06

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What's the difference between Clipping and Culling?

answered Oct 5, 2019 at 0:07

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Can I use QueryPerformanceCounter to measure single draw or compute call performance?

answered Jan 3, 2017 at 15:04

6 votes

What does "Bidirectional" in BRDF mean?

answered May 21, 2017 at 18:13

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Why use image load / stores instead of FBOs

answered Jul 27, 2017 at 16:21

6 votes

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When does it make sense to use drawRangeElements

answered Feb 1, 2018 at 15:34

6 votes

How to access several textures from huge amount of textures in a shader?

answered May 9, 2018 at 13:23

5 votes

For shader math, why should linear RGB keep the gamut of sRGB?

answered Oct 16, 2018 at 16:13

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What's the meaning of the "dynamic" in "high dynamic range"?

answered Nov 3, 2017 at 13:59

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OpenGL: Why glTextureSubImage2D crashes?

answered Jan 13, 2018 at 16:57

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Is there a DSA technique for transform feedback?

answered Sep 1, 2017 at 14:35

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