Archipelago #ProcGen

Jean-Eudes Marvie just released a major update to his open source gaussian splatting sample #vulkan #3dgs. A lot of new rendering techniques were added github.com/nvpro-sample...

2 more Nanite Tessellation posts are up. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani..., graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/03/vari...

Running #NVIDIA’s Zorah assets in #Anvil. Our Micropolygon (MPH) pipeline streams massive geometric detail, enabling film-level complexity in real time. MPH already shipped in #AssassinsCreedShadows, scaling from Switch 2 all the way up to high-end PCs. schedule.gdconf.com/session/micr...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 431 - March 8th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Another experimental custom vfx volume modifier for meshes + custom particle processor. selective particle emission + light on any mesh shape by intersecting the modifier volume sdf w/ random ptx spawn points on geometry data fetched in particle processor #gamedev #godotengine #vfx #rtvfx #wip

DXR 2.0 specs were now made public 🎉 microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Spec...

Happy to work with a very cool team and contribute to the forest ray tracing project. youtu.be/RgpAc7U29BA Great collaboration with CD Projekt Red. We will open source the Vulkan sample later this year.

Great to see renewed interest in #AssassinsCreedUnity following the new 60fps patch. If you’re curious about some of the tech behind it— global illumination and early GPU-driven pipeline —I shared a few details in my GDC talk. youtu.be/yj5pYktC3X8?... #AssassinsCreed

Our GPC 2025 talks are up on YT now! youtu.be/fXakIV1OFes?... youtu.be/mvCoqCic3nE?...

SER and OMM have now officially arrived in DXR 1.2! devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/shad...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 428 - February 15th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Yesterday on stream we've sketched out most of the support code for descriptor heaps. If you want to see the rest of the owl, I've committed the remaining pieces after the stream. For now all of the previous descriptor code is still required to support production drivers. github.com/zeux/niagara...

How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate: fabiensanglard.net/quake_asm_op...

"It's So Fluffy" #3dgs #GaussianSplatting

A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm. Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #FindsFriday #Archaeology

While working on spark.js, I realized that common normal map compression formats weren’t supported in popular frameworks like three.js. I added the necessary support to three.js and wrote an article to shed some light on the topic: ludicon.com/castano/blog... #webgpu #webgl #threejs #sparkjs

A colleague sent me this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jVo... No further comments needed, it's **very** good. I've seen some of his videos in the past, but I missed this one. Glad I saw it.

This feels like the texturing version of spinning around my model. Playing with carve groups in @marmoset3d.bsky.social to get grey metalness values through intermediate oxidation.

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 426 - February 1st, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

the 2nd part of my dithering visual article is finally out! 🔗 visualrambling.space/dithering-pa... this one mainly explores the threshold map and how it generates those unique visual patterns hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it! made with #threejs & #animejs

Finally finished Gatling's Metal backend! Here's a teaser of NVIDIA's USD / MDL sample scene 'Attic' running on macOS. What's special about the backend is probably that it uses the same GLSL code as the Vulkan backend, complete with hardware ray tracing. How does that work?

Let's build a 1997 Quake PC! fabiensanglard.net/quake_pc/

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 423 - January 11th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Bootstrapping. Wraparound over illustration for a book on computing development.

From the Lockdown Era

Slides are up for our talk at the Graphics Programming Conference (GPC), with @domlaz.bsky.social and myself. #GPC25 #DOOM graphicsprogrammingconference.com/archive/2025...

The video: youtu.be/il-TXbn5iMA

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 422 - January 4th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Whether you like it or not, a Gaussian splat of wasp! It's menacing.. but also gorgeous! #3dgs

A mech miniboss I animated for Neon Inferno. Base concept by Kryssalian. #pixelart

🤔 What if you could skip painful subdiv modeling and paint your knurls instead? @oddenough.art demonstrates a fast, non-destructive workflow using Toolbag’s vector layers and symmetry mode to create and refine knurling patterns in no time.

Dear ImGui now embeds a vector/scalable version of the classic font by default, manually subsetted/optimized so it fits in 18 KB (opt-out possible). Embedding ensures easily and readily usable in all contexts. Should default to new one on most setups. Here's a compare of both. #ChristmasMiracle

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 420 - December 14h, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

#sketchbook pages

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 419 - December 7th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

After nine years of development, meshoptimizer has reached its first major version, 1.0! This release focuses on improvements in clusterization and simplification as well as stabilization. Here's a release announcement with more details on past, present and future; please RT! meshoptimizer.org/v1

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 418 - November 30th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Strand-Based Hair And Fur Rendering In Indiana Jones and The Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from MachineGames is now online: youtu.be/jSE1XXBEK-w

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 416 - November 9th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

New blog post! Behind the scenes of some of the techniques involved in making our last PC demo 💫 gboisse.github.io/posts/this-i...

The state of the art report on Monte Carlo volume rendering by Jan Novák et al. [2018] gives an excellent introduction: www.jannovak.info/publications...

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Stochastic Tile-Based Lighting in HypeHype" by Jarkko Lempiäinen from HypeHype is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O44...

Here's an update on my small-voxel renderer, inspired by the look of games like Doom and Quake. The work I shared last year focused on handling simpler environment geometry. Since then, I've greatly expanded the scope of what I can depict in this art style. More info in thread.

Ray marching is a common approach to GPU-accelerated volume rendering, but gives biased transmittance estimates. My new #SIGGRAPHAsia paper (+code) proposes an amazingly simple formula to eliminate this bias almost completely without using more samples. momentsingraphics.de/SiggraphAsia...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 414 - October 26th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

🎄 Introducing our paper A Generalizable Light Transport 3D Embedding for Global Illumination lnkd.in/gQUMSAyV . 🙈 Just as Transformers learn long-range relationships between words or pixels, our new paper shows they can also learn how light interacts and bounces around a 3D scene.

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 413 - October 19th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

I finally found the time and energy to make a new blog and write a couple of posts. This time I wrote about PBR content and game development principles. Both posts are quite different so hopefully people find something interesting on either one of them. irradiance.ca/posts/