DirectX « Greg Dolley’s Weblog. Welcome to part three of the DirectX native C++ tutorials.
In this part we’re going to look at drawing a set of 3D triangles. These triangles will make up a cube and the camera will be positioned inside of it (like you’re standing in a square room). While the last tutorial technically had a 3D triangle – after all, we specified z coordinates for every vertex – the scene was not truly 3D as far as DirectX is concerned. Try changing the z coordinate for any of those vertices and you’ll see what I mean – the triangle still doesn’t look like it’s in perspective. Requirements The tutorial sample code was built and tested with Visual Studio Express 2008. You’ll need the DirectX 9 SDK for compiling the sample code. Tutorial Source and Project Files Download the project files, binaries, and source with this link: Download C++ Sources and Binaries [~15k] Getting Started Introduction to Matrices Matrices are basically mathematical tables used in linear algebra. So why is this useful? About the Code.
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Projects - Octave. The list below summarizes features or bug fixes we would like to see in Octave. if you start working steadily on a project, please let octave-maintainers@octave.org know.
We might have information that could help you. You should also read the Contributing Guidelines chapter in the Octave manual. This list is not exclusive -- there are many other things that might be good projects, but it might instead be something we already have. Also, some of the following items may not actually be considered good ideas now.
Paradigms. Misc. LISP/Scheme. C. Python. Java.