# jagregory/abrash-black-book

Markdown source for Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book

Repository: https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/abrash-black-book
Language: CSS
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-06-20T19:44:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4624, "days_push": 1170, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4869, forks 375 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:01.624591+00:00)

## What it is
Markdown source for an ebook edition of Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book, a classic 1997 text on high-performance graphics programming and optimization. It provides cleaned, ebook-friendly HTML, EPUB, and Mobi builds generated with pandoc.

## Use cases
- read the classic graphics programming black book on an e-reader
- learn low-level graphics optimization and assembly techniques
- convert the book to HTML, EPUB, or Mobi with pandoc
- study historical x86 performance optimization
- find a free copy of an out-of-print programming book

## When to choose
- you want to read Abrash's Black Book on a mobile device or e-reader
- you're studying graphics programming, Quake-era optimization, or assembly performance
- you need a free, cleaned-up version of the out-of-print book

## When to avoid
- you need a modern graphics programming tutorial covering GPUs and shaders
- you want actively updated instructional content rather than a historical text

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, markdown
- domain: graphics, education, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: ebook, graphics-programming, optimization, assembly, classic-book

## Member repositories
- jagregory/abrash-black-book (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:01.624591+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:18:19.970625+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:01.624591+00:00, sha 5b58c96318e6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.