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One of the operations that low-level APIs tend to give you that higher level graphics systems tend to ignore is the bitblt - bit-block operation (pronounced bit-blit). This is essentially a low-level ...

Sometimes you want to render a visual on the fly, or even animate it. Perhaps the visual is a complex path where the set of x,y coordinates dictate what to render. Or perhaps the visual is a graph ...

The five characters HTML5 are now an established buzzword, found everywhere on the Web and often given top billing in slides, feature lists, and other places where terms du jour congregate.