A quick side exercise to see how little code one can get away with to put that RGB triangle on screen using D3D11 (without bending over backwards with trickery). This is a complete app in < 40 LOC (including the HLSL).
For more.. elaborate.. D3D11 reference code, see the original Minimal D3D11, Minimal D3D11 pt2 and Minimal D3D11 pt3
Minimal D3D11 reference implementation: An uncluttered Direct3D 11 setup + basic rendering primer and API familiarizer. Complete, runnable Windows application contained in a single function and laid out in a linear, step-by-step fashion that should be easy to follow from the code alone. ~200 LOC. No modern C++, OOP or (other) obscuring cruft. View on YouTube
The Gilbert–Johnson–Keerthi (GJK) distance algorithm is a method of determining the minimum distance between two convex sets. The algorithm's stability, speed which operates in near-constant time, and small storage footprint make it popular for realtime collision detection.
Unlike many other distance algorithms, it has no requirments on geometry data to be stored in any specific format, but instead relies solely on a support function to iteratively generate closer simplices to the correct answer using the Minkowski sum (CSO) of two convex shapes.
| Why do compilers even bother with exploiting undefinedness signed overflow? And what are those | |
| mysterious cases where it helps? | |
| A lot of people (myself included) are against transforms that aggressively exploit undefined behavior, but | |
| I think it's useful to know what compiler writers are accomplishing by this. | |
| TL;DR: C doesn't work very well if int!=register width, but (for backwards compat) int is 32-bit on all | |
| major 64-bit targets, and this causes quite hairy problems for code generation and optimization in some | |
| fairly common cases. The signed overflow UB exploitation is an attempt to work around this. |
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| * Written by Ethan "flibitijibibo" Lee | |
| * http://www.flibitijibibo.com/ | |
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| * Released under public domain. | |
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