Deified

A simple rendering engine and a few demos I’ve written to get to grips with Apple’s Metal API.

Why name it Deified?

• (transitive) To make a god of (something or someone).

• (transitive) To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.

— Wiktionary
Deify

1. I needed something more memorable than "metal-demos"

2. All good rendering frameworks/engines should have ostentatious names

3. Palindromes are awesome

Demos

01_Basic3D

A tweaked version of Apple’s Basic3D demo. The rendered image is the same as the original demo, but this version uses some helper classes/functions to setup various Metal buffers.

02_BasicPODScene

A simple mesh renderer. The PowerVR Object Data format (POD) is used to store the mesh data.