recent

f.lux
Better lighting for your computer, for Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS
f.luxometer
A tool to analyze spectral response of devices
How to do Asynchronous Loads
Reducing latency when writing asynchronous code

Stuff down here is quite old. Like from last decade.

windows software

Blttest
Time your videocard's 2-D performance
VJPEG
A fast image viewer
Thumbpage
A simple web gallery thumbnailer
Netmeter
How much bandwidth is your computer using?
KeyRepeat
Simple web-based test of key repeat rate
Disksum
A program to find big files
Scrapture
A little screen capture program
fonticate
See all the fonts in your system
Picasa
Photo software I wrote (acquired by Google)

web stuff

Galbum
Picasaweb on any site
dmerge Logfile merging by date


downloads

Spherical blur
Utility for blurry spheremaps.
Fresnel Alpha
Photoshop filter for reflectance.
Little Browser Bumpers
Make IE work better.

optimization tricks

Radix Sort for Floating Point
Some nice optimizations for sorting
Know your FPU
My article from 2000
FPU fixing (by Sree)
Updated+better float to fixed by Sree Kotay
Computer Math, 101
More math hacks by Ben Weiss
The Double-Blend Trick
Faster alpha blending
Fast crossfades
using MMX
Integer log2
Fast log2(x)
Faster divides

code

Fast Shadows on Rectangles
Magically Fast Drop Shadows
How to Make Things Stop
Some thoughts about animation.
strcmp for humans
10 doesn't come before 2
Lighting for MetaStream 3
The specular + diffuse shader
Approximations to gamma
Fast gamma correction
Robust floating-point epsilons
Eatmem for QA on NT

michael herf (contact)

follow @herf on twitter
Very old resume

graphics ideas

Gamut Mapping, 1992
Soft Shadows, 1996
A Java Image Mixer, 1999
Scatteringimages and discussion, 1999
[pdf] MIP-mapping in software, 1999
Cubemap animation for Bryce 4, 2000
Circle Packing, 2000

writing

Carbon-Friendly/Eyeball-Friendly
Notes on lighting for arts and color-matching
The Lyrics Server
A retrospective on copyright
Give me a gigabyte
Computers and RAM
Holding my data hostage
Software vs. subscriptions
Procedural UI
The future of interface?
KPT5 Blur Filters
The inside story
It's time for 2-D
Graphics hardware and UI