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<halcy> Oh I know what you should make
<halcy> WAHa_06x36: Make a STALLMAN BOX
<halcy> WAHa_06x36: Like a buddha box except it displays cool 
        saint ignucius effects and it plays the free software 
        song

And then I went and made it myself.

It is, of course, free software. You can find the source code on github. Users of GNU/Linux are assumed to be capable of compiling it themselves (It pretty much works out to “run make”, needs SDL and freeglut and glew). GNU/Linux graphics drivers are usually proprietary and sometimes terribly buggy, so it might or might not work.

For Microsoft Windows, there is a binary version.

Download:

• Source code
• Binary [Win32]

(It requires a relatively new version of OpenGL to actually run, sorry about that)

Some audio and png code taken from WAHa_06x36 - thank you!

Something I sort of completely forgot about.

At the GulaschProgrammierNacht 10 - the entropia ev/CCC Karlsruhes annual hacker event - I held a talk about modern OpenGL. While the talk itself wasn’t held very well (I rushed through everything aaaaaaaaah oh god), the base material is, actually, a pretty okay introduction to modern OpenGL - without fixed function pipeline, as it should be.

You can download the english version of the slides here, and - probably more interestingly, can grab a copy of the demo program I made, which is very well-commented and does nothing but simply render a rotating cube, as seen below.

If you’re the type that learns best from examples, have a look.

Also, if you need more writing and explanation, have a look at Joes blog, where a longer explanation of basically the same thing is provided. :)

(Additional links to a video recording of the talk [german] and german version of the slides after the image)

• Slides, english
• Slides, german
• Example code
• Torrent of talk recorded on video
• DDL of talk recorded on video at entropia.de
• An intro to mordern OpenGL - Joes Blog