Framebuffer Object (FBO) or RTT

The frame buffer object architecture (FBO) is an extension to OpenGL for doing flexible off-screen rendering, including rendering to a texture. By capturing images that would normally be drawn to the screen, it can be used to implement a large variety of image filters, and post-processing effects. The FBO is analogous to the render targets model in DirectX. It is used in OpenGL for its efficiency and ease of use. The use of FBOs doesn't suffer from the overhead associated with OpenGL drawing context switching, and has largely superseded the pbuffer and other methods involving context switches. (from Wikipedia)

Trip to San Luis Obispo and Cambria

My wife (June) and I visited San Luis Obispo and Cambria together to celebrate our 3th anniversary (Dec. 29). On the day, we turned on my computer, and just selected a hotel in San Luis Obispo which was 'BEST WESTERN Somerset Inn'. We think the inn was not bad..  bed sheets were clean, the space is enough big for us.. and especially breakfast was great..  bananas, cereals, milk, teas, waffles, etc..  :)

Day 1

We first went to the Avila beach which is on the highway 1. Even though we didn't plan, we just dropped by a wine tasting house where we were able to see many peacocks which were really awesome.  :)  As expected, wines were great for others who were next to us, but not for us..  Among some wines, there was one great wine for us.. thus.. we bought one.. :)

Peacocks... 

Then, we dove to the Avila beach, and took some pictures. At the very end of the pier, we saw a lot of seals, some of which were swimming, but most of them were sleeping.. which was so funny..  I have never seen such many seals are sleeping together.. haha.. 

At the Avila Beach Pier

Sleeping seals at the Avila Pier

After having ordered some food... 

On our way to San Luis Obispo, we went up a hill around the beach..  Wow..  we've seen a really beautiful double-rainbow... :)  which was really amazing.. :)

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