Programming can be more than just a chore. For one manufacturer of tobacco products, it was a weight—one that was helping to sink a complex automation project. The machine builder that the company had ...

The genomics world has no shortage of visualization tools. But as new methods and data types emerge, existing techniques can struggle to cope. Now, a tool known as Gosling allows bioinformaticians to ...

August 6th, 2012 – Los Angeles, SIGGRAPH 2012 – The Khronos™ Group today announced the immediate release of the OpenGL® ES 3.0 specification, bringing significant functionality and portability ...

There's something about 3-D graphics that just draws you in. Even though I have a degree in Mathematics, I've always had the impression that programming in 3-D would be difficult. I've recently ...

Should I be looking at MS Visual studio, Borland C++ Builder or something else if I want to do graphics programming in C++<BR><BR>I am a one man band electronic ...

One of the big challenges of developing interactive statistical applications is the management of the data pipeline, which controls transformations from data to plot. The user's interactions needs to ...

When going to school last year, one of my professors introduced me to eXtreme Programming, a series of practices designed to make software development Better™. One of those practices is Test First ...

Programming tools that harness the computing power of CPUs and graphics processors have been updated, bringing more parallel programming capabilities to the table. Standards-setting firm Khronos Group ...