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The Steve Jobs IPad Adobe Flashplayer HTML5 Video rant

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

The flame wars are on! CEOs, CTOs, platform evangelists and users are fighting the war of the worlds out there. It´s HTML5 vs. Flash, open vs. closed, H264 vs. OGG, desktop vs. mobile, truth vs. lie. Lets first calm down with this nice audio visualization before we dive in...

Smart Normal Map goes Silverlight

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Microsofts Silverlight has advanced to a level where it´s features and performance get contrastable with flash. It took mere minutes to port Smart Normal from PixelBender (Hydra) to Silverlights shader Language HLSL (DirectX). As with Astro, shaders are rendered via software - not the GPU. The result is roughly comparable with this ...