Nutty News

Silverlight Rasterizer

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:26:10 UT

Another 2 day adventure in the lands of Silverlight. I figure if I'm going to build a ray tracer, I might as well do a real-time software renderer as well. I'm looking forward to actually building platformers with this. I have an idea for a top-down multiplayer shooter style game that I would like to see done. I just need to tweak a couple more things, but so far it's looking to be really promising. God I love Silverlight :) Click here to see a demo of it

Silverlight Performance Testing

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:41:20 UT

Since I do a bit of 3D and procedural work, I decided to see how much I can squeeze out of the Silverlight runtime and its software based rendering. Here's a simple Silverlight demo that runs the FBM Perlin noise algorithm with turbulence and 2 iterations. On average I get 33 fps at the default resolution (128x128; middle mouse wheel will control resolution between 64x64 to 256x256). In my engine's software shader system, I get on average 27 fps. A 6 fps drop for having a more robust architecture. Although if I enable threading it jumps to 60 fps easily, thus not all is bad. Click here to see the demo EDIT: I removed the live Silverlight app since it causes bizarre holdups in browsers. Probably CPU hogging resources or some such.

Silverlight Particles

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:51:31 UT

It's been a while since I touched a particle engine. It was quite fun building a new one for Silverlight. Unlike my previous particle systems, this one was built to be very extensible from the beginning. The system essentially consists of a global emitter and a series of generators that define the simulation. This allows me to build any particle system without having to deal with the emitters or particles themselves. A demo is provided here.

ECHO

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:37:01 UT

As part of a Silverlight competition for promoting Green awareness, I wrote an application utilizing some of the features of my Silverlight engine (raytracer, procedural textures, vector hand drawing). I have posted the application on my site that you can see here.

The competition is being held at Silverlight Eco if you want to check out other entries.

Silverlight Raytracer

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:03:15 UT

For my next trick, I will demonstrate my Silverlight raytracer! I whipped this up over the weekend in my spare time and I would like to eventually focus on some improvements in render times. So far I like the results. I tied the tracer into my procedural texture generator so the possibilities are quite endless. I'm looking forward to using this for.. uh something ;) View the demo here