How not to render 3D graphics: 40 ways to get a blank black screen

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by AjJi • 17 years ago

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tumult• 17 years ago

I hate "n things" lists but that was pretty good.

timdorr• 17 years ago

  You have a bug in your matrix library. The entire universe has collapsed to (0,0,0).

If God is a programmer, I wonder if he's hit on that kind of bug before. "Whoops, destroyed all of existence! Better start over..."

olliesaunders• 17 years ago

> You're standing in front of a black wall.

That was the best one.

Legion• 17 years ago

My experience with 3D engines doesn't extend much beyond an undergrad project I did, but even that was enough to read this list and smile knowingly at a good chunk of it.

pierrealexandre• 17 years ago

This is the perfect cheatsheet for a question I got during an interview at a major GPU company : "You write an OpenGL program displaying a colourful object, but you get a black screen when you launch it. What could have gone wrong in your code ?". I painfully thought about 3 or 4 of them and am now deeply embarrassed by my lack of imagination.

greyfade• 17 years ago

Missing one:

Your far-clip plane is too close.

How not to render 3D graphics: 40 ways to get a blank black screen

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