May I present my new four-part article series “Demystifying the PVS” on Quake's precomputed visibility. The first three parts are out now! Read them here: 📜 https://30fps.net/pages/pvs-portals-and-quake/ Related code available at: 🖳 https://github.com/pekkavaa/vis.py/

A 2023 blog post of mine got posted to Hacker News again and got a brief burst of readers. I reread it and was reminded of the absurdity of the behaviour of this Windows flag. It never made sense, but on modern machines it is completely crazy. randomascii.wordpress.com/2023/10/01/3...

The GPU Zen 3 book is out, perfect timing for the Holiday Season! www.amazon.com/GPU-Zen-Adva... So many fantastic-looking articles! Together with my teammates, we have also contributed a chapter: "Differentiable Graphics with Slang.D for Appearance-Based Optimization".

Using a nice graphic from the slides to highlight a point made: Wave A will stall, and needs swapping, only when it tries to *use* the MEM data requested. If the compiler manages to fill the gap between MEM request and MEM data available with other instructions, the wave will never stall.

Great article on anti-aliasing blog.frost.kiwi/analytical-a...