The personal project in question: rolling my own implementation of Sebastian Hillaire's "A Scalable and Production Ready Sky and Atmosphere Rendering Technique". Skybox working, so far so good! Aerial view next 🔥

While working on a personal project, I also started building some small libraries to streamline "engineless" WebGPU and game-like user input. They're very rough for now, and no npm packages yet, but I thought I'd share anyway: github.com/DerSchmale/t... github.com/DerSchmale/t...

-- JOB SEARCH POST/RT APPRECIATED -- Hello everyone! I am available for work (full time position/internship) anywhere in the world with priority going to the EU, starting June 2026. 🧵

"Holidays look a lot like work, dad"

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

So terribly sad to hear about Rob Reiner's passing. Stand By Me is still my favourite movie after all these years 💔

Graphics research papers and their lack of mathematical rigor (to "help") really ends up confusing me instead. if β​(h,λ) is a function, don't tell me β = 5 in the next sentence when you mean β(0) = 5. I'm looking at you Bruneton!

Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation in CONTROL Resonant, a thrilling action-adventure RPG. Watch the announcement trailer: youtu.be/WhQm-ExRz60 CONTROL Resonant is out in 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Mac. #CONTROLResonant

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

In order not to take only the negatives to the Blueskies: My latest experience with Razor support (screen gave out) was much. MUCH. better! ❤️

THIS IS INCREDIBLE

The tune playing in my head whilst playing Death Stranding 2 youtube.com/watch?v=bNHd...

Ready for GPC 2025!

It's that time of year, bad first person shooters are coming out. And friends don't let friends violate sanctions on the Russian Federation. www.offensive-bias.com/p/escape-fro...

On my way to the refreshingly pragmatically named graphicsprogrammingconference.nl in Breda. See you there!

Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026: Steam Controller Steam Machine Steam Frame.  Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware

The colour of a brown lightsource. #rendermantras 🕉️

Sunny autumn day, Brahms, the PBR book, and doggo on the sofa. Perfect Sunday morning 😁

Volumetric lighting: all scattering, no occlusion

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

Kicking off Unwrap with Machine Games. I must be the oldest person in the audience 😂

But before I lock myself up, I'm looking forward to seeing you all at Unwrap in Kortrijk or GPC in Breda!

Death Standing 2, Battlefield 6, Ghost of Yotei, Outer Worlds 2 & Chrono Cross, that's my wintertainment sorted. See you on the other side! #hermitmode

My favourite AI BS part at KIKK festival: "We made sure there were no copyright or ethical problems with our model" *proceeds to generate the Ghostbusters logo in 3D*

Oooh, new glints paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025: perso.telecom-paristech.fr/boubek/paper...

Very cathartic talk, thank you @roberthodgin.bsky.social

Never underestimate the ability of a Titanosaurus to hide in tall grass.

Very excited to present a few interesting bits about the rendering of #DOOM: The Dark Ages together with @domlaz.bsky.social and @martinfuller.bsky.social . If you happen to attend #GPC2025 next month, feel free to say hello!

I still have so much love for Final Fantasy VI. Everyone involved was firing on all cylinders. Play the Pixel Remaster if you haven't yet, finally no more need for SNES emulators!

Define "perfect ending". Oh wait...

One week till www.kikk.be . Who's going?

Did I ever mention how much I hate strict linters? My god do I hate strict linters.

The true boss at Der Schmale, Narfi is happy with my progress this week.

Escalators in Belgian train stations are down all the time. Never realized how glad I apparently am to still be alive.

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

I wonder what happened to Knald (www.knaldtech.com). They've been silent for ages, but now even their licensing server is down. I *really* liked their Lys tool :\

Pretty good mouse mat.

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

When I first played Heretic as a kid, being able to look up and down blew my mind. Playing the re-release, I see how simple the trick actually was 😅

What would happen if a public transport company was given a monopoly and was allowed to charge per hour instead of by distance? Right. Welcome to Belgium.

Got mine! Looking forward to it again!

Slides from my SIGGRAPH 2025 and CEDEC 2025 talks “Fast as Hell: idTech 8 Global Illumination”, are now publicly available through the Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course. Lecture recordings will be available soon on the course's YouTube channel.

Well this was a delightful read. www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/col...

Yes! YES! Please tell me more what's ethically wrong about AI from your Meta- or Musk-owned platform of choice! #highhorse

Surprised how loud people are in BC natural parks. They'd throw you off the mountain in Europe shouting like that 😂 Beautiful tho!

This is the way the bubble ends: Not with a pop, but with smog and brownouts. [Disappointed that some readers didn't recognize the TS Eliot ref] paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Enjoying a week in Vancouver after Siggraph with my bud @simppafi.bsky.social because it's important to kick back and enjoy the world. Today was exceptional!

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians – Oh My! New mathy blog post to try and make some scary sounding terms less scary. blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/d...

Great Siggraph 2025 presentation of Gran Turismo's tonemapping pipeline, which also includes a fantastic introduction to light perception and tonemapping, its origins and how it evolved over the years with display technology, recommended read: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...