I made a video about the smooth-maximum function, I hope you like it! youtu.be/6Qb6QtC6QMs

Our #SIGGRAPH2026 paper "Multi-Layer Reservoir Splatting for Temporal Reuse under Disocclusion" improves #ReSTIR by reusing previously occluded samples. Video: youtu.be/-ya1bBnwx38 Project Page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro...

Wow, this looks incredible! I never envisioned our method being applied to bokeh blur in 3DGS like this, but the results speak for themselves. Thanks so much for sharing and experimenting with it!

One of the finest DOS democoding tutorials I've read in recent years. Translate from Russian to your local language: habr.com/ru/articles/...

TinyBVH 1.7.2 (dev branch) now adds "Bring Your Own Threadpool" (thanks @wjakob.bsky.social!): Replace the built-in job system (adapted from Wicked Engine) by an alternative, using three hooks in BVHContext. TinyBVH remains single-header and dependency-free of course. github.com/jbikker/tiny...

When you transition from rasterization to ray tracing, you may want to compute camera rays based on a 4x4 world to clip space matrix. My new blog post shows why the obvious approach for that fails and provides code for a reliable alternative: momentsingraphics.de/CameraRays.h...

You can pick up this device for about $50 on eBay, new. :) This looks like a really wonderful emulation device. Mine is on its way to be added to my ever growing pile of really nice machines.

Just found out that the #GPC Teardown talk on raytracing voxels is available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1D... Thans @jasper-bekkers.bsky.social (via LinkedIn).

The 2025 paper "EON: A practical energy-preserving rough diffuse BRDF” was updated with an appendix that provides an albedo inversion formula, as well as two other small enhancements. jcgt.org/published/00...

Working hard on TinyBVH 1.7.2. Cleaning code, improving threading, much faster SBVH and full-sweep, presplitting (with BoyBaykiller), a new benchmark tool, ... Really nice to return to this after a lengthy (but also satisfying) retro project! Follow for updates: github.com/jbikker/tiny...

"Spit" 4Kb Procedural graphics release at NOVA 2026. www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...

Cool upcoming SIGGRAPH 2026 paper on improved ReSTIR PT by Shi at al.: hercier.github.io/restcv/

The MaterialX PBR specification is gaining formal mathematics! This proposal adds scattering equations for each BSDF, EDF, and VDF, so that renderers can implement shading nodes directly from the spec. Feedback and review from the rendering community are very welcome: github.com/AcademySoftw...

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗶𝗻𝘆𝗕𝗩𝗛? TinyBVH is free software. That also means it can be hard to track how it is used 'in the wild'. If your company uses TinyBVH, and you don't mind sharing this info, can you let me know? It would greatly help! No pressure, of course. :)

The TinyBVH library for BVH construction and traversal - dependency-free, high-performance, single-header - has been updated to 1.7.0 and is considered 'stable'. This maintenance release fixes some smaller issues in preparation of new developments. Link: github.com/jbikker/tiny...

When learning shaders most tend to overcomplicate common practices like noise or color corrections. Here are 5 common noob mistakes:

Dependency-free. Like. :)

Chris Hanson put the source code to the Amiga Juggler demo (1987, by Eric Graham) on GitHub. More info here: alphapixeldev.com/recovering-e... Repo: github.com/AlphaPixel/E...

Now on the dev branch of TinyBVH: Version 1.7.0. New in this version: Ultra-fast CPU BVH builds using the threaded, binning SAH builder (BVH::BuildAVX). TinyBVH now builds a BVH for a 220k triangle model in 7ms, twice as fast as before. Dev build: github.com/jbikker/tiny...

TinyBVH has been updated to 1.6.8 on the main branch. Notable changes: * New C++17 threading system * TinyOCL now uses OpenCL 3.1.1 * Fix: watertight tri test for shadows * Added BVH::BuildAABB EA SEED (Gigi), SideFX and Remedy are using TinyBVH! Check it for yourself: github.com/jbikker/tiny...

Yes! This bothered me too. Thanks for getting to the bottom of this. (not spoiling the conclusion)

How aware are modern compilers of exact microarchitectural layouts?

 Quite a lot…in one very specific way. 
Intel x86 is *not* the same as AMD x86. 

 Sure…it’s the “same ISA” in the broadest sense, but the individual instructions often take different numbers of cycles.

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 442 - May 24th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Turn it off.

ReSTIR PT, by @daqilin.bsky.social Daqi Lin, Markus Kettunen and @wymancr.bsky.social Chris Wyman: research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/pub... I3D'26.

There's a new paper out in JCGT by @jamportz.bsky.social et al. that proposes a super simple modification of existing microfacet models to implement a retroreflection model. What's interesting is that although insanely simple, the model fits measured data pretty well! jcgt.org/published/00...

Set your blasters to "Excited" Cause we're about to get treated to a new #homebrew #SHMUP for the #GameBoy Color from @egvroom.bsky.social "StarSeed 3" Will launch on May 25th! #gamedev #indiegame #Nintendo #gaming #GBC

Very interesting. Has SIMD support too. And shaders.

markjgillespie.com/Research/Sub... Via: www.realtimerendering.com/kesen/sig202... Even if you're not interested, read it for the incredible visual design of that page. I'm talking about the first character, how is that called?

Flax Engine, what I think of as Indie Unreal, just released Flax 1.12 adding DDGI, jiggle physics, web via WebGPU, improved graph programming and much more. If you're looking for a feature rich C++/C# powered game engine, check out Flax. gamefromscratch.com/flax-engine-... #gamedev #indiedev

I'm a little late to the party on this one since it's from January, but I just read this great blog post by Jure Triglav walking through implementing surfel-based global illumination. It's got a bunch of really cool interactive toys/visualizers! juretriglav.si/surfel-based...

I'm working on a stylized shader for flowing water. Here are some results combining phasor noise with advection along the flow direction. Some more details in 🧵. The code is on shadertoy: www.shadertoy.com/view/N3sGD2 #gamedev #procedural #indiegamedev #techart

Project Falcon is an awesome new FREE 3D modeling application enabling incredibly easy hard surface model creation via Kitbashing. Created by... Autodesk! And yes, results can be used in #Blender3d and elsewhere! gamefromscratch.com/project-falc... #gamedev #indiedev

dear imgui 1.92.8 released! github.com/ocornut/imgu... - many fixes/improvements for tables, text inputs, axis auto-sizing, multi-select & box-select, clipper, key ownership system etc. - ImDrawList::AddRect() sig change⚠️ - Bonus: a renderer agnostic standard for changing texture sampler.

There's a neat short paper from Eurographics this year that evaluates how well microfacet shading models actually predict measured reflectance. The answer is: not nearly as well as one would hope! (1/3) ssteinberg.xyz/2026_surface...

Lazy tonemaps: rgb = tanh(rgb); rgb /= 1.0 + rgb; rgb = 1.0 - exp(-rgb);

DELTA ranked #4 in the prestigious MSXDev25 contest, which saw 50 participants this year. The bar of what can be done on MSX was raised significantly by several games, including the winning Neon Horizon. And, by DELTA of course. :)

Good stuff. Already enjoying OpenCL for TinyBVH! Further improvements to a vendor-agnostic tool are more than welcome.

How to looksmax your graphics. Please take the time to learn tonemapping! It's probably the most common mistake I see even in professional contexts

C++20 coroutines have lovely syntax, but they're a terrible fit for games. Here's what I built instead: ~200 lines of stackless C++ coroutines that survive a quicksave/quickload.💾 vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/s... #cpp #gamedev

New Paper🙂 Nanite has shown that small triangles can be rendered fast in compute, we're exploring how fast for large meshes with up to 18.9 billion triangles, without the need to precompute LOD structures. Paper: github.com/m-schuetz/Cu... Source: github.com/m-schuetz/Cu...

Our Y1 IGAD programming students just finished the Ray Tracing block. After the basics, many added depth of field, path tracing, reprojection, filtering (including SVGF), a Teardown-style TLAS, and much more. (by the way.. You can still sign up for CMGT/BUas before May 1st - be quick!) #thisisigad

Why not. :) Tempting!

Amazing demo. One big history lesson, the non-boring kind. Go watch.

Very happy to win first place at #RevisionParty2026 for my 4Kb executable graphics entry "Lost Media"! www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... I was lucky enough to go the the party too this year and had a really great time. It was good to hang out with friends old and new.

How many branches can your CPU predict? lemire.me/blog/2026/03...

It's that time of the year again! Looking forward to the productions. :)

GPU Tracing Participating Media alextardif.com/Participatin... Just some HLSL this time :-) Not a long form post, I've been reading PBR and maybe this will be helpful to share!

Blog entry from @jbikker.bsky.social about the rendering technique on DELTA. 3D on #MSX jacco.ompf2.com/2026/03/07/r...

You can now visualize how a color palette distributes across OKHsv, OKHsl, OKLCh and CIELab, and compare 6 distance metrics side by side. Zero dependencies, raw WebGL2. Took me 3 years to make something I wasn't too embarrassed to share 🙃 meodai.github.io/color-palett...