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Machine Vision is perhaps one of the few remaining areas in technology that can still lead you to say “I didn’t know computers could do that”.  The recent pace of development has been relentless.  On the…

Introduction Have you ever heard about the Taoyuan effect in reflections? Probably not, so I invite you to read this blog to learn about this effect and the application of local cubemaps in graphics.Several…

My last blog looked at some of the critical areas which an application has to implement efficiently to get best performance out of 3D content, such as broad-brush culling of large sections of a scene…

ABSTRACTThis guide will show how to get ARM® DS-5™ Streamline™ support working on a production Samsung Galaxy Note 4 device, with minimal modifications.The resulting files generated will be a gatord, gator…

The evaluation codec for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression ASTC technology is now available on GitHub, making it easier for you to access, browse and contribute feedback.

For a long time, I've not really been interested in 3D programming.(Well, I've done some minor OpenGL programming many years ago, but I must admit that I'm more of a dev-tools programmer)After watching…

At GDC 2015, ARM and PlayCanvas unveiled the Seemore WebGL demo. If you haven’t seen it yet, it takes WebGL graphics to a whole new level.CLICK HERETO LAUNCH SEEMORESo why did we build this demo…

Since our successful demonstration at SIGGRAPH, ARM and Collabora have continued to work together on providing the best possible platform for media playback and presentation. Numerous applications such…

It's now been a year since we announced the Shader Pixel Local Storage extension. Here I'll recap what we've done since the time of the release.What is Pixel Local Storage?I recommend reading …

Most people use Mali Graphics Debugger (MGD) to help debug OpenGL® ES applications on Linux or Android. However graphics is not the only API that is supported by MGD, in-fact MGD supports applications…

OpenGL ES is the standard API for 2D and 3D graphics on embedded systems, which includes mobile phones, tablets, smart TVs, consoles, and other appliances and vehicles. The API is a well-defined subset…

IntroductionGame developers are regularly looking for efficient methods for implementing stunning effects in their games. This is especially important when targeting mobile platforms as resources should…

In this blog I give a technical overview of what's needed to make the shadow technique work in your project. Why do I mention reflections based on local cubemaps? Because once you have implemented these…

With Mali Graphics Debugger you can edit OpenGL® ES shaders on the fly on your Android or Linux device while the game is still running. In fact, the tool will replay a frame over and over with modified…

Every year at GDC, we like to present some important updates regarding the development tools for game developers that target devices with ARM® Mali GPUs. In 2013,we previewed Mali Graphics Debugg…

The Heterogeneous System Architecture 1.0 specifications have now been released.Jem Davies has talked about earlier releases of the HSA specification which gave an overview of the Programmer's model, and…

I am Hans-Kristian Arntzen! I work in the Mali use cases team where we explore the latest mobile APIs to find efficient ways of implementing modern graphics techniques on the ARM Mali architecture.

RealtimeUK are a Creative CG Studio that has spent the last 18 years forging a strong reputation within the games industry for the quality of our Cinematics, Animation and Marketing Imagery. Whilst our…

Previous blog in the series: Mali Performance 4: Principles of High Performance RenderingWelcome to the next instalment of my blog series looking at graphics rendering performance on Mali GPUs using OpenGL…

You have probably all seen the announcements at GDC 2015 (going on right now). The big engine guys are battling it out for the attentions of developers large and small. Epic Games are giving away Unreal…

If you have followed my instructions on installing OpenCL™ on the Samsung Chromebook or on the Samsung Chromebook 2, you may be wondering what's next. Well, optimising your code for the ARM® Mali…