FASTBuild v1.19 has been released, including: * LightCache supports Clang & GCC for significantly faster cache operations * Support for Ctrl+F7 integration with Visual Studio * BFF syntax enhancements * Bug fixes Details: http:// fastbuild.org/docs/changelog.html Big thanks to all contributors!

Interesting paper showing great results for replacing standard low-res rendering + temporal upsampling (DLSS) with high-res GBuffer + adaptive sampling. Makes sense given rising costs of lighting computations vs GBuffer. arxiv.org/abs/2602.08642

I have procrastinated on writing so much that I wrote an entire document on writing tips: cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tzli/writin... Probably not much is new but I find I still need to repeat the same things to my students regularly. Will update this document over time hopefully.

this point came up in a discussion some months ago which made me realize that supporting proper lambdas in hlsl would mean this "anyhit shader" logic could be passed in as lambda and inlined with the "hidden" code that does bvh traversal. maybe that'll happen some day..

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

This was a fun quick experiment: Using an old photo I took in the forest, I used ml-sharp to generate gaussian splats from it, voxelized it in my toy renderer, relit the scene dramatically. #rendeting #metalrt

“Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast” The fastest known floating-point printer and parsing algorithms - fixed-width printing, shortest-width printing, and parsing, all in 400 lines of Go. research.swtch.com/fp research.swtch.com/fp-proof

Optimizing spatiotemporal variance-guided filtering for modern GPU architectures jcgt.org/published/00...

cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tzli/novelt... I gave an internal talk at UCSD last year regarding "novelty" in computer science research. In it I "debunked" some of the myth people seem to have about what is good research in computer science these days. People seemed to like it, so I thought I should share.

A sneak peak of what I've been working on: A strand based hair system for Jolt Physics (WIP): youtu.be/Rl19G0c003o

-- 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. 🧵

My "How to Vulkan in 2026" @vulkan.org #Vulkan guide is now publicly available at www.howtovulkan.com I still consider it a preview, though I'm mostly happy with it and only plan on changing minor things and incorporating some feedback.

As my holiday project, I went back to my retro engine project after a long time. Decided to add something modern, so here's meshlet rendering on Voodoo 2: youtu.be/VOv8JqUZstQ

"An Experimental Approach to printf in HLSL" from the one and only www.abolishcrlf.org/2025/12/31/P...

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "FAST AS HELL: IDTECH8 GLOBAL ILLUMINATION" by @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social from id Software is now online: youtu.be/VTrdeqMMMK0?... Enjoy!

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "MEGALIGHTS: STOCHASTIC DIRECT LIGHTING IN UNREAL ENGINE 5" by @knarkowicz.bsky.social‬ and @tiagocostav.bsky.social‬ from @epicgames.alt.store.ap.brid.gy is now online: youtu.be/dmmN8_c8Tb0?... Enjoy!

I wrote a blog post describing state of GPU market and what does it mean for support of new GPU features asawicki.info/articles/sta... Thanks to @asawicki.info for letting me publish on his blog

I got the first post about direct lighting material occlusion up on my blog. On this one I go over the commonly used micro-occlusion approach and its limitations, and I start digging into micro-shadowing as an improvement. irradiance.ca/posts/micros...

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".

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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

Here's some cute bounding box functions for 2D shapes. A longer list here: iquilezles.org/articles/bbo...

dear imgui 1.92.5 released! 🪩 github.com/ocornut/imgu... - many fixes/changes for Tables, InputText, Keyboard navigation, disable mode, single-axis auto sizing, backends etc. - webgpu backend update for latest Emscripten API changes & native Dawn/WGPU.

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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: youtu.be/2K-rwy4aMmU?...

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Stochastic Tile-Based Lighting in HypeHype" by Jarkko Lempiäinen from HypeHype is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O44...

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Strand-Based Hair And Fur Rendering In Indiana Jones and The Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from MachineGames is now online: youtu.be/jSE1XXBEK-w

I finally found the time and energy to make a new blog and write a couple of posts. This time I wrote about PBR content and game development principles. Both posts are quite different so hopefully people find something interesting on either one of them. irradiance.ca/posts/

Funding: if your mid/large business uses Dear ImGui - and maybe you are approaching end of year budget/planning etc. - please consider reaching out (PM/email) so I can help you help Dear ImGui !

New blog post! Behind the scenes of some of the techniques involved in making our last PC demo 💫 gboisse.github.io/posts/this-i...

i had a chat with lukasz and @antovsky about gamedev and stuff, if youre into that sort of thing! the middle hour is the juiciest but its all fantastic, ofc ;) youtu.be/mFBmoCv5EcQ?...

Ray marching is a common approach to GPU-accelerated volume rendering, but gives biased transmittance estimates. My new #SIGGRAPHAsia paper (+code) proposes an amazingly simple formula to eliminate this bias almost completely without using more samples. momentsingraphics.de/SiggraphAsia...

Been wanting to implement that fast GGX-based convolution for glossy reflections probes for quite a while and finally made some time for it:) research.activision.com/publications...

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides for "Stochastic Tile-Based Lighting in HypeHype" by Jarkko Lempiäinen are now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course slides for "Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination” talk by @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social from @idsoftware.bsky.social are now online advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances talks slides sharing: "Strand-based hair and fur rendering in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from Machine games is now online advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

I made a configurable multi-plot utility Shadertoy www.shadertoy.com/view/WclyzB For the erosion video I'm working on, I want to show some function graph synced with erosion parameter changes. I wasn't happy with the existing function plotting examples I could find, so made my own here.

New short post: "Thinking about convolutions for graphics" aschrein.github.io/jekyll/updat...

meshoptimizer v0.25 is out! Featuring new simplification function that optimizes positions and attributes for appearance, experimental permissive mode to simplify faceted regions with selective seam preservation, regularization option for improved tessellation quality and deformation, multiple ...

Neural Visibility Cache for Real-Time Light Sampling Jakub Bokšanský, Daniel Meister (AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.) Paper: www.jcgt.org/published/00...

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...

This is the project I've made solo during Slavic Game Jam 2025. Nothing fancy, not even a game, just 5 interactive shaders, to learn how to do custom GLSL shaders in Godot (incl. temporal feedback). Source code included. reg-697500.itch.io/shader-symbi...

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...

As the date for the 20th anniversary of Advances is coming, I realized some content was missing. Posted 2007 and 2008 courses online - check them out! advances.realtimerendering.com

It's time to share the program for the 2025 Advances in Real-time Rendering in Games. Check out all the details here: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index.... and, of course, come attend the course live on Tuesday August 12 at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver!

Amazing talk about Neural Materials. Lots of insight - from why layered materials are important to an overview of current neural solutions and their tradeoffs: youtu.be/xUnXPNFWJUY?...

this is the same effect stimulant medication has on people without ADHD lol