This is a great blog post about GPU rendering of SDFs, with some excellent figures: www.farfa.dev/blog/is-rend... (and I'm not just saying that because it used one of my libraries for SDF evaluation 😆)

Creating a Flight Simulator in Unity3D Part 4: Autopilot vazgriz.com/892/creating...

I wrote about the Victorian history, physical sensor mechanisms, and networked logic of traffic lights! This is the fifth installment in the "How The Heck" series, following QR codes, GPS, Shazam, and solar panels. Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-traffic-lights-work

When dealing with noisy and/or partial inputs to describe a shape, the standard approach in geometry processing is to reconstruct a clean implicit surface first, and to do geometry on it. But why this one in particular? What about all the other surfaces that would have been coherent with the input?

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

For folks interested in the USD/MaterialX/OpenPBR ecosystem, I'll just note that this recently shipped as a feature of MaterialX v1.39.5, and it will also become a feature of the upcoming OpenPBR v1.2 around SIGGRAPH. github.com/AcademySoftw...

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...

Most rendering bottlenecks don’t appear all at once. They build quietly across the pipeline, frame after frame, call after call. We recently explored those hidden inefficiencies in a case study with the Android Performance Analyzer. 📖:
developer.android.com/android-perf... #GameDev #GameEngine

We have a fun new paper to appear at SIGGRAPH 2026, led by Columbia PhD student Xiana Carrera, that extends dual contouring to work nicely with [pure] signed distance samples. It avoids classic DC's additional requirement of providing accurate Hermite / […] [Original post on mastodon.acm.org]

Our new Gaussian point splatting renders huge 3DGS scenes in real time (e.g. 425M⬇️). It samples pixel-sized points from the Gaussians with massive parallelism and splats them to the screen using 64-bit atomics. The SIGGRAPH 2026 paper, code and video are out now: jorisar.nl/gaussian_point_splatting/

Ok, new sokol-sample for Slug text rendering is out! This has been ported from this Odin sample with some quick'n'dirty improvements (most notably: batching for glyphs) tangled.org/dosha.dev/so... WebGL2 sample: floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/... ...and WebGPU: floooh.github.io/sokol-webgpu...

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

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 440 - May 10th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Optimizing Vulkan for tile-based GPUs? The Vulkan Guide's Tile Based Rendering (TBR) best practices page is a great resource. Full guide: docs.vulkan.org/guide/latest... #Vulkan #GPU #Programming #GameDev

youtu.be/Xolb8DcrbLc The recorded EUROGRAPHICS 2026 talk for our wave tracing paper. Very honored that this paper received the Günter Enderle Best Paper Honorable Mention award. Collaboration with Matt Pharr (NVIDIA).

New blog post! This time I went deep down the rabbit hole of NTSC/PAL emulation in the context of PS2 emulation. themaister.net/blog/2026/05...

If you're using my 3D lines n' trails addon for Godot, I added a new "connection mode" property that lets the line change into a closed loop, or a sequence of broken segments. Also added a Wireframe3D node. Grab it here: codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/... #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 439 - May 4th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

You might remember that I was working on my own programming language a few months ago. I've decided to write a blog post about what this language is, how it is implemented, and what are my future plans! lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/m...

@dark1x.bsky.social mentioned Outrun 2006 for the PlayStation Double featured Pixel Shader-like stylized water reflections and it got me curious: It's a combination of 3 stenciled passes. The masks scroll around but the reflections stay put. From far away enough it looks pristine.

I had to code this one myself to convince myself it was real. The yellow and blue "busses" are moving smoothly at exactly the same speed. from https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/04/28/the-stepping-feet-illusion/

While volk always tracks the latest Vulkan version (I've automated myself), I occasionally tag new numbered versions and today is such a day! New release 1.4.350 features a number of small improvements for various edge cases as long as all the new extensions you may want. github.com/zeux/volk/re...

Inspired by @sebaaltonen.bsky.social's "No Graphics API", I've written a GPU pointer-centric bindless wrapper on Vulkan+Metal. Still in rough shape, but I've written about it here: www.kevin-gibson.com/blog/writing...

For people who are attending Eurographics in the coming week: my student Trevor will talk about his latest work on making ReSTIR efficient when reusing from a large number of neighbors. The key is an unbiased estimation of the MIS weight. See the paper below. research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/pub...

Subtle things to make your shaders better: 1) Anti-aliasing - Real life is not limited to pixels so unless you're specifically going for a pixelated style, you should be anti-aliasing everything! mini.gmshaders.com/p/antialiasing

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

RenderDoc v1.44 is now available! This version has a number of bugfixes and consistency improvements in some features. Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend... Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds

This is a great example of why even small optimizations can matter at scale. Modern apps and systems can be affected by this kind of "death by a thousand cuts".

New blog post! In "Quantizing tangent frames", we look at various established methods to represent tangent frames in the vertex data, squeeze a few variants into 32 bits per vertex and look at the resulting precision. zeux.io/2026/04/30/q... Share, like and subscribe!

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 438 - April 27h, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

New DirectX 12 Agility SDK. Just preview version, but I hope these additions will reach the retail version soon. I'm excited about CopyBuffer/TextureRegions, clears, and FillBuffers - finally available without implicit barriers around them! devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/shad...

I made an experimental "GPU mode" in my toy shader debugger (pema.dev/hlsl/). It runs the shader on the GPU with WebGPU by transpiling to WGSL with the Slang compiler. You can click on a pixel to drop into the interpreter and start debugging. Also added image previews when you hover variables. :)

(🧵 1/6) Recently I've been working on an HLSL interpreter, which can execute shader code entirely on the CPU github.com/pema99/HLSLI... I used it to make a cute little interactive debugger demo. You can try it yourself at pema.dev/hlsl/

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...

Some of you might know that I've been working on a book. Today I'm happy to announce Palette Programming: A Modern Guide to Color Quantization paletteprogramming.com It's a textbook on how to design palettes and represent images using them. Will be out this year. Code in Python & NumPy.

New article: Single-pass palette refinement and ordered dithering 30fps.net/pages/bayer-... It's a method that modifies the online k-means algorithm to produce an ordered dithering pattern as a side effect. The result is closer to pleasant glitch aesthetics than a proper dithering replacement.

Raymarching brick atlas. Clipmap controlled LOD based on distance. DDA with a bit of hierarchy used to step quickly through the clipmap, then raymarch SDF voxels per brick. Conservative voxel update and brick alloc on GPU. Super happy with how this is turning out! 😀 #vulkan #raymarch #flecs #gamedev

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 437 - April 19th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Interested in how Geometry Nodes work in Blender? In this blog I walk through the process of making a 3D node-based renderer from scratch using #WebGPU and Typescript. whoisryosuke.com/blog/2026/we...

While we are still recovering from an awesome party and already miss all of our friends, we like to look back at past editions, and now you can do the same in great detail! Head on over to archive.revision-party.net to relive memories of past editions of our wonderful easter party!

blog post about how rare it is for player characters in games to talk about their feelings and kinda how every boring gruff identical video game beard man is a few thoughtful lines away from being properly worthwhile www.joewintergreen.com/max-payne-is...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 436 - April 12th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

New blog post! I really hope I'll get a decent amount of people mad with this one 😈😈😈 #programming #computing #floatingpoint #geometry lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/i...

Larger ASTC block sizes save bandwidth, but may not save memory at all. I tested many iOS and Android devices to find the actual cost of memory alignment: www.ludicon.com/castano/blog...

Bevy 0.19 is releasing soon, which means it's time for a blog post! jms55.github.io/posts/2026-0...

An interesting idea to use surfels not only as a surface cache (PBGI), but also as a geo approx to trace against. The main use case is mobile, where triangle ray tracing isn’t widely supported in HW, and raymarching SDFs isn’t a great fit for bandwidth-limited devices. gdcvault.com/play/1035619...

Did you know you can set up a scene and render it to a texture without any nodes in #Godot, by directly using the RenderingServer? We automatically generate billboard sprites for meshes this way. There's not much info about the RenderingServer online, so I wrote about it: hexaquo.at/pages/using-...

Time for my last batch of deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game. This one's a mixed bunch of miscellaneous topics, from anti-cracker code to hidden snippets of original source code. Short and sweet! thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives Enjoy… #retrocomputing #c64

Ported my #noita -like from #macroquad to #SDL and #WGPU over the last 2 months And multi-threaded the heck out of it too. GIF-heavy devlog: www.slowrush.dev/news/porting... #indiedev #gamedev