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Jan. 27th, 2023 09:32 amOne of the best things about boycat is his love of flopping over in no way overrules any fear of falling off of things. He just fell off of the Ikea bendy chair where he was snuggling with mamacat cuz he had to FLOPP. He got up unphased and trotted off. He's falled off of the heating pad on the cat castle. Sometimes when the flops instead of falling off, he rolls off like a barrel. No fucks given.
The U*P Computer Graphics class is indeed OpenGL based (WebGL, a dialect of OpenGL ES, GL for embedded systems). Wishing I still had the SGI O2 so I could do assignments on the original OpenGL machine. 3D accelerated graphics (a specialized GPU co-processor for 3D graphic operations) is a big part of what SGI famous, along with organic case shapes in pastel colors, being a SysV holdout over BSD Unix, a good reputation for security due to a very random adoption by the security state, and an absurdly high price tag. Apollo then Sun delivered Unix workstations; SGI delivered bad-ass Unix workstations. Every machine came with video and audio capture hardware and output. The startup chime is a real-time evaluation of a polynomial with an imaginary number component. This was the only machine that could give the Amiga a run for its money. I've always wanted to learn OpenGL so this is welcome. Just... hard to do everything at once. One fun thing here is I'm used to do 3D stuff with the CPU. The concepts are familiar, I just need to learn the APIs (programming interface).
The U*P Computer Graphics class is indeed OpenGL based (WebGL, a dialect of OpenGL ES, GL for embedded systems). Wishing I still had the SGI O2 so I could do assignments on the original OpenGL machine. 3D accelerated graphics (a specialized GPU co-processor for 3D graphic operations) is a big part of what SGI famous, along with organic case shapes in pastel colors, being a SysV holdout over BSD Unix, a good reputation for security due to a very random adoption by the security state, and an absurdly high price tag. Apollo then Sun delivered Unix workstations; SGI delivered bad-ass Unix workstations. Every machine came with video and audio capture hardware and output. The startup chime is a real-time evaluation of a polynomial with an imaginary number component. This was the only machine that could give the Amiga a run for its money. I've always wanted to learn OpenGL so this is welcome. Just... hard to do everything at once. One fun thing here is I'm used to do 3D stuff with the CPU. The concepts are familiar, I just need to learn the APIs (programming interface).
