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Should I use Game Engines to learn to make 3D games?

HI i am a software engineering student in his second-last year. I am proficient with C,C++,C# and java programming languages, and being a student of engineering I have studied calculus, vectors etc ...
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Different types of memories which a graphics card has

I've been googling this around and yet nothing showed up but some articles from middle ages which were talking about Gforce mx and ... . My question is just this: what are the different memories in a ...
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connecting multiple anti-aliased lines together

I implemented/copied the wu line algorithm from pseudo-code on wiki-pedia and other places. When drawing a sine wave it breaks down at the point where the line changes from y dominant to x dominant ...
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The recommended road map to be a good graphics/game engine programmer

I am a computer science student and I am developing with C/C++ and Python and I want to begin learning graphics tools to start developing with game engines, especially the Blender Game Engine. So what ...
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What will AMD Fusion or likewise hybrid CPU/GPU will change for the 3D programmer ? Are they potentially faster?

Since the early days of accelerated graphics, programmers were obligated to use hardware-supported libraries like directX or OpenGL. If we wanted to explain someone what happened by introducing a ...
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Help making a visual transition with pygame and NumPy

Perhaps this could be better answered on Stack Overflow, but I thought it would be worth posting here. Right now I'm trying to make visual transitions with pygame's surfarray module which uses NumPy. ...
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What should every graphics programmer write

I've seen this question on SO, but here i want it to focus on GFX. So in your opinion what applications/features should every aspiring GFX programmer write/change to get better? Community wiki since ...
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How do I generate surface normals?

I have quite a few debug drawing methods in my engine that can generate geometry useful for debugging, like spheres and cubes. At the moment I do not generate any normals for these shapes. Is there ...
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Cross platform low level graphic API

When creating a system abstraction is better to have the platform different APIs hidden by a common interface at the lowest level that makes sense. Taking in account the different modern (with no ...