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features and newsF.luxBetter lighting for your computer Carbon-Friendly/Eyeball-Friendly Lighting for arts and color-matching Galbum Picasaweb on any site Nerdblog.com I write more there than here Picasa Photo software I wrote (acquired by Google) Windows XP Screensaver Screensaver for XP (me+REZN8) FPU Fixing Updated for 2006 by Sree Kotay downloadsNetmeterHow much bandwidth is your computer using? Kampachi A little tool to mirror Apache indexes Thumbpage A simple web gallery thumbnailer. Disksum A program to find big files. Scrapture A little screen capture program. fonticate See all the fonts in your system. Little Browser Bumpers Make IE work better. VJPEG A cute & fast image viewer. Spherical blur Utility for blurry spheremaps. Fresnel Alpha Photoshop filter for reflectance. GlassAMP Make winamp transparent. IM Melting Transparent buddy hack. Blttest Time your videocard's 2-D performance. software and soundsNoisesLots of samples, some of real M-60s and tanks. For programmers QuickWarp Real-time barrel distortion (fix). Eatmem for QA on NT Mapcrunch analyze .map files VC Clean Clean & archive VC projects dmerge Logfile merging by date |
blog postsA good-enough ZFS NASApril 2009 Bitrot, huge disks, and RAID March 2009 Data solutions to big problems March 2009 An open translation service for software? February 2009 Image decoding notes, multi-core, SSD December 2008 Disaster prevention: a story in three parts December 2005 It makes sense to slow down your RSS reader February 2005 2004 Compiler missing, now what? April 2004 Electric Bill Rules of Thumb January 2004 graphics and coding tricksHow to Make Things StopSome thoughts about animation. strcmp for humans 10 doesn't come before 2 Fast Shadows on Rectangles Magically Fast Drop Shadows Radix Sort for Floating Point Some nice optimizations for sorting Computer Math, 101 Guest Article by Ben Weiss JPG decompressors Surprising discoveries. Fast P3 Memory Access mempcy and memset are half-fast. Lighting for MetaStream 3 The specular + diffuse shader. Fast crossfades using MMX FPU tricks and other speed gizmos Approximations to gamma Fast gamma correction SSE emits for older compilers, from Brent Elliott Integer log2 Fast log2(x) Robust floating-point epsilons Fast divides The double blend trick Pretty-fast alpha blending. graphics ideasGamut Mapping, 1992.Soft Shadows, 1996. Transitions for IE5 (5.0 only) 1999. A Java Image Mixer, 1999. Real-time-rendering David Kirk/Ken Musgrave, 1999. Depth of field usenet posts, 1999. Scatteringimages and discussion, 1999. [pdf] MIP-mapping in software, 1999. Cubemap animation for Bryce 4, 2000. Circle Packing, 2000.  |
michael herf (contact)twitter: herfemail: stereopsis att mherf dt com AOL IM: mbherf gtalk: mbherf Picasaweb: herfology Resume (old) financePrinting Bad MoneyNovember 2008 Sheila Bair's Bailout October 2008 writingThe Lyrics ServerA retrospective on copyright. Fast food links Non-nutritional information. Software I Like Recommendations and Reviews Windows XP Really miscellaneous thoughts. LCD monitors Some info on flatpanels. Give me a gigabyte Computers and RAM. Holding my data hostage Software vs. subscriptions. Procedural UI The future of interface? Nupster The Nupster Story. KPT5 Blur Filters The inside story. It's time for 2-D Graphics hardware and UI. State in OpenGL Why we need shaders. This envelope will self-destruct in 15 seconds. Beep The Golden Age of Wireless. Now and then... mostly now. MetaCreations and its demise. Welcome to California This place I live. Offline Banking Trying to bank online. Quotes other thoughts. linksDad's underwater photosGraphically speaking Sree. lornamatic. Lorna's art. tarpify. Tarpy's stuff. james bruss. Uncle's art. porfiry Jason's band. |