1/6 Excited to share our #SIGGRAPH2026 paper, Dual Contouring of Signed Distance Data! We propose a new method for reconstructing sharp meshes from discrete samples of signed distance functions (SDFs) that does not require gradients. Project page: gatc.cs.columbia.edu/projects/dua...

O Festival Impulse, no Porto é já daqui a um mês! Um dia de mostras, seminários e competições organizado por nós em parceria com A Beneficência Familiar. 11 de Julho de 2026, no Salão Nobre d’ A Beneficência Familiar, entrada é grátis. Mais informções em impulse.inercia.pt

this saturday, free entrance, let's talk some demoscene in person!

A pedido de várias e diversas familias que queriam uma demoparty em Portugal durante o verão ou no norte de Portugal outra vez, ouvimos o vosso feedback e podem marcar no calendário: dia 11 de Julho vamos ter a Impulse a decorrer no centro do Porto. impulse.inercia.pt

Meanwhile we are already cooking plans for the next Momentum meetup, in Almada again but on a new location this time, Salão das Carochas on the 6th of June. Drop by if you want to talk some demoscene with us and show us what digital art you been working on!

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Material Maker 1.6 is now available for download. It introduces controlled variations (a way of reusing subgraphs in different contexts and iterate on them), Aperture nodes ("wireless" communication in the graph) as well as many updates and bug fixes. rodzilla.itch.io/material-mak...

FragCoord v1.0! -Write shaders in WGSL, Slang or even HLSL (experimental) -Build shader sets. Curate collections for teaching, organizing and learning. -Invited creators can now co-edit shaders -And much more!

Here's Material Maker's showreel for March 2026. You will find all those materials (and many more) on the website. Please feel free to leave a comment on the video and let us know which material you liked the most! youtube.com/shorts/gtGlB...

Made and rendered in #materialmaker as background for a demoscene meetup flyer.

Dizem que vai haver outra Momentum? Sim, é verdade. Dia 23 de Março estaremos no GamingHub em Lisboa. Juntem-se a nós para mais um meetup da Demoscene em Portugal!

Introducing FragCoord: My ultimate shader editing tool!

Rocaille 2 vec2 p=(FC.xy*2.-r)/r.y/.3,v;for(float i,f;i++<1e1;o+=(cos(i+vec4(0,1,2,3))+1.)/6./length(v))for(v=p,f=0.;f++<9.;v+=sin(v.yx*f+i+t)/f);o=tanh(o*o);

Já no próximo fim de semana, o encontro mensal da demoscene em Portugal. Junta-te a nós, dia 31 a partir das 15h, para uma tarde bem passada!

Subway Incident by 0b5vr 4KB Executable Graphics Appeared in Operator Digitalfest 2026 www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... www.shadertoy.com/view/lcV3RW

amazing talk. they decap and also reverse the custom roland jp8000 dsp chip, make a faithful emulation plugin, and along the way reveal the famous supersaw as simply 8 detuned, aliased (!) 2x oversamped naive saws. youtu.be/XM_q5T7wTpQ?...

Someone is playing with shaders in the sky… p.x+=sin(p.y) 😄

2 weeks until our Inércia 2025 event takes place! Checked the program schedule? Finished those bridge theme inspired entries? Registered to attend? Great! Now help us promote the event to the rest of the digital art community out there! inercia.party

Second Reality now has a fully portable C++ version! Thanks to the work of @conspiracy.hu and JSRProductions You can even run it on your browser! jsr-productions.com/secondrealit... Here is the C++ source github.com/XorJS/Second... And the web page jsr-productions.com/secondrealit...

Looks like someone took our ball and ran with it, and continued with a fully portable C++ port of Second Reality - including a browser version! www.jsr-productions.com/secondrealit... Finally we can replace DOOM as "the thing you run on things"! 💪

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Saturday 6th of December we will host a workshop given by the developers of TiXL, teaching Inércia visitors how to use TiXL for generating visual effects and motion graphics for installations, live performances, and VJing. tixl.app You're going to miss it?

Mais uma Momentum, o nosso evento mensal está quase aí! Dia 1 de Novembro, a partir das 15h, junta-te a nós para conheceres a Demoscene em Portugal!

Made in #MaterialMaker you my custom nodes Shadertoy is here shadertoy.com/view/3XjyD1

The theme for Inércia 2025 is bridges! Yes, those small and large systems carefully engineered to bring and maintain connectivity. Technological bridges, cultural bridges, social bridges, circuit board bridges... Get inspired and show us what bridges mean to you 6-7 December.

Estivemos na Festa do Software Livre e já podem ler um report do jae sobre a participação no evento scene.pt/fsl/events-r...

Recordings for all of the Slang-related sessions at this year's SIGGRAPH are now publicly available on YouTube! Check out the Slang blog for links to recordings and session materials here: shader-slang.org/blog/2025/10...

Uploaded my new version of Material Maker lib with more than 120 nodes, especially dedicated to SDFs Now for #MaterialMaker 1.4!!! github.com/paulofalcao/... A Shadertoy in 1 minute 😁

"Turbine" for(float i,z,d,s;i++<1e2;o+=vec4(z,1,s,1)/s/d){vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a;p.z+=5.;a.x--;a=mix(dot(a,p)*a,p,sin(s-=t-z))+cos(s)*cross(a,p);for(d=1.;d++<9.;a+=sin(ceil(a*d)-t).yzx/d);s=sqrt(length(a.yz));z+=d=length(sin(a))*s/2e1;}o=tanh(o/5e3);

I will give a workshop on #materialmaker on Oct 4th in Porto. pretalx.softwarelivre.eu/fsl2025/talk... Made this for it shadertoy.com/view/3ffcWl

"Quasar 2" for(float i,z,d,s;i++<7e1;o+=vec4(z,2,s,1)/s/d) {vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a;p.z+=9.;a=mix(dot(a-=.57,p)*a,p,cos(s-=t))-sin(s)*cross(a,p);s=sqrt(length(a.xz-a.y)); for(d=1.;d++<9.;a+=sin(a*d-t).yzx/d);z+=d=length(sin(a)+dot(a,a/a)*.2)*s/2e1;} o=tanh(o/2e3);

Mais uma? É mesmo! Apresentamos mais uma Momentum, dia 27 de Setembro em Almada! Aparece e vem conhecer a demoscene em Portugal!

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

"LAUNCH" for(float i,z,d,f;i++<1e2;o+=vec4(3,1,d,z/f)/z){vec3 v=vec3(0,-2,7),p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyx)+v,a=p;a.y*=.3;for(d=1.;d++<9.;)a-=.1*sin((a.zxy+t*v+d)*d)*p.y/d;z+=d=min(max(-p.y,length(a)-2.),f=.2+abs(length(a.xz-cos(a.zx*6.))+max(p.y/.1,-.6)))/8.;}o=tanh(o*o.a/1e3);

Functional Raymarching compute.toys/view/2303 SDF rendering where 3D scenes are built through pure functional composition. There is no SDF function in the scene. Only main_image needs to change for every possible scene. Using SLANG

Próximo Sábado em Almada, dia 19 Julho temos Momentum com churrasco, quem quiser vir socializar com demosceners, falar sobre o que tem feito de arte digital, ver demos e/ou reparar electrónica são bem vindos. Tragam comida/bebida para partilhar. Apareçam no discord para mais info

mobygratis.com Free instrumental music for creators by Moby

This paper suggests that the length of AI tasks is doubling every 7 months metr.org/blog/2025-03... There is also a research that speculates about possible AI futures ai-2027.co I’m more toward the idea of diminishing returns over time with AI, but…

How To: Disable Hotkey for changing Keyboard/Language in Windows 11 youtu.be/b6sIwV2qwVk

Made this using my custom nodes in #materialmaker

Somehow ended up doing a shadertoy for webgpu shaders with a way to specify any pipeline configuration in that same text area. Like a portable webgpu real-time pipeline shadertoy or something

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Já no próximo Domingo, em Almada. Mais uma Momentum, a meetup mensal da Demoscene e arte digital em Portugal. Aparece!

NEW GM Shaders: Signed Distance Fields mini.gmshaders.com/p/sdf You may have heard of SDFs, but this is an introduction to actually using them in computer graphics!

as a continuation, a recent documentary about the Timex plant in Portugal where ZX Spectrum and Timex computers were made It has English subtitles for your enjoyment

I made an attempt to create this kind of material. Also, this is the first shader I'm posting about on this new Bluesky account! www.shadertoy.com/view/Wfs3RN