The Japanese Space Flyer Unit with solar array unfurled. Photographed from the approaching space shuttle Endeavour during mission STS-72. Credit: NASA Say you’re going to launch a satellite into space ...

Honeycombs, some bathroom floors and designs by artist M.C. Escher have something in common: they are composed of repeating patterns of the same shape without any overlaps or gaps. This type of ...

One feature that I am really excited about personally is that we'll finally have a hardware tessellation unit inside the GPU that DirectX can utilize. But what is hardware tessellation you might ask?

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