Leaves of Grass [1856]

On Valentines day last week I went to buy an alarm clock (how exciting…), and on my way towards home passed through Borders. I asked, as I have asked at numerous bookshops in the past six months or so, if they had a copy of The Holographic Universe in stock. To my surprise, the answer [...]

Surf’s up!

..in a CouchSurfing kind of way. I’ve had a few CouchSurfers contact me recently about meeting up in Sydney, and met one of them (with other surfers in tow) at the Slip Inn this evening. I haven’t had dinner there in ages – it seems they don’t do a $5-ish menu these days, but the [...]

HLSL pixel shaders

I’ve been trying to learn some HLSL (“HLSL is the High Level Shading Language for DirectX”), or at the very least use HLSL to create some new effects for use in Neon v2. Neon allows you to use real-time, hardware pixel shaders to manipulate each layer in the composition. Part of the problem has been [...]