Debug View Art (showing Island's GPU 2d rasterizer at work)

Island can now visualizing the rendergraph for anything that it's rendering - even 2d GPU rasterized scenes (the visualizer is 2d GPU rasterized itself)... Note yellow for compute, green for graphics, blue for transfer passes... #handmade #vulkan

New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome! zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...

Rendergraph Visualizer update: - lots of visual tweaks - replay of recorded graphs - interactive controls to place diagram on screen - auto-zoom and centre This is the very first frame of Island's Compute Example visualized: blue is a transfer pass, yellow a compute pass, and green is graphics...

Pareidolia of the day

Spent a good little while auto-de-spaghettifying graph visualisation... 🍝 I think i have a an approach that seems to be working (image 3); image 1 and 2 are failed attempts. If i can't find a matching port on the neighbour card, i require an extra lane on top. I do that for all connections ...

I'm adding some basic path routing to the Island rendergraph visualizer; This way, it becomes more obvious how resources flow through the graph... (left: with newly added routing | right no routing) #handmade #vulkan #island

How did i get to MOUSE SPACE? When dealing with matrices and affine transforms of all kind, i find it helps my intuition tremendously, if i name all transforms as SpaceOrigin-To-SpaceDestination. Another favourite: Naming spaces with what is *at their origin*: ViewSpace, ScreenSpace, 🐭Space

The Island Rendergraph visualizer is drawing connections \o/ -- it took a while to get there, but i think this is going to be useful...

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

#JobAlert: RISD's new department of Computation, Technology & Culture seeks adjunct faculty to teach Introduction to Computation, and related art+technology subjects, in Providence RI: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Island Rendergraph visualizer now has renderpasses that list resources ... connectors on the left show READ resources, if there is a dot on the right, that's a WRITE resource. Sinks (Swapchain resources) are currently drawn in garish yellow...

I'm adding live-rendergraph reflection to Island: the engine should be able to visualize it's own rendergraph -- all passes and resources that contribute to the final image. It's coming together nicely ...

light play

Lizard skin

(pro quo?)

Really enjoyed watching this lecture - it brings mathematical tools to optical illusions — and shows some geometric tricks that great classic artists used to make their pictures sing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNtf...

Fancyful Character

Illuminations test (exuberant)

Illumination study (#debugviewart)

Ornament (green, fraktal)

Dancing lines (shell)

Dancing Lines (swirl)

Dancing lines (feathery) / 1

Dancing lines (circular, still)

Dancing lines (harmonic)

Crazing study (highrise)

Progression /2 (roads)

Progression (curve fractures, monochrome)

Progression (monochrome)

We have our usual monthly update for Linebender: linebender.org/blog/tmil-19/ A lot of good progress, especially on the renderer, and fearless_simd is coming along well. Also some personal news: I'm leaving Google and taking a new role at Canva, moving to Australia in January.

Not to Scale. Island will soon support fully GPU accelerated vector drawing, based on #vello shaders (github.com/linebender/v...)

brutalist pareidolia

oh, hello, tiger...

Read the story behind the Official OK Go Visualizer for "Once More With Feeling", a delightful collaboration with @zachlieberman.bsky.social -- poniesandlight.co.uk/work/ok_go_o...

Building my own tools kyndinfo.notion.site/Building-my-... (Repost/Crosspost) #p5js #math #physics #code #art

this just dropped: m.youtube.com/watch?v=7tSV... — t’was a lot of fun to make this video with Zach :)

In particular this post looks at some amazing work from people @tgfrerer.bsky.social and @jbakergraphics.bsky.social on the topic 🙌

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 385 - March 30th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

I wrote something on the state of and outlook for indie dataviz. "Crisis? What crisis? — Why 2024 was a dead year for indie dataviz — and how we’ll do much better in 2025" truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis...

Signed it. openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... enjoyed listening to this — an exeptional story exceptionally well told

WOW: Wacław Szpakowski www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/02...

Pattern study

space filler (4k)

✨Delighted to announce that Island now runs natively on Raspberry Pi 5 - github.com/tgfrerer/isl... ✨ I've written a README to describe how to set things up (how to compile latest GPU drivers + #Vulkan SDK from source) ... it's all fairly painless 🤞 github.com/tgfrerer/isl...

Got the Island Screenshot example to work on RPi5 \o/ — here it renders & encodes the scene to an animated Gif at 800x400px at about 30fps; note how the CPU only kicks in when it converts the file towards the end…

Really happy with #Vulkan 1.3 performance on #RaspberryPi 5; The Island Vulkan compute example (Gerstner Waves) compiles from scratch in 23sec wall-time; frame rate looks super smooth, and CPU load while running is only about 20% (single threaded) …

The Seventy-Eighth Dance of Ancient Crayons