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...

At long last, I have finally touched the Great Pyramid of Khufu with my own hands!

First instance is now hosting my new #MagicTheGathering #RSS bridge. rssbridge.projectsegfau.lt#bridge-Magic... Here's a sample feed for "all" articles: rssbridge.projectsegfau.lt?action=displ...

Decentralized platform gets centrally censored techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/b...

The greatest and whackiest game of all time is getting a makeover, can't wait! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRn...

Can anyone from the UK confirm a subreddit requiring ID verification can be accessed without through a Libreddit/Teddit/Redlib instance? (if the link below is down just reload it again to go to another instance) farside.link/reddit.com/r...

The #SIGGRAPH program this year looks great. Had to skip this year, but looking forward to all the content appearing online. Enjoy Tim Hortons and do not walk up the Grouse Grind!

New FavIcon for #RSS-Librarian, what do you think?40k inspired Librarian logo showing a skull with a spiked halo on top of an open book

#WarhammerCommunity runs a blog without an RSS/Atom feed, which is akin to a Bolter without any bullets. In honor of the Machine God a certain member of the Cult Mechanicus has gifted us with a bridge. Go subscribe with your favorite reader here: rss-bridge.org/bridge01/?ac...

RSS-Librarian, a tool to store individual web articles in a custom feed, now has an iOS shortcut to quickly add articles to the personal library. No need to open the webpage to add a URL, just share it. Demo instance: alternator.hstn.me/librarian.php Code: github.com/thefranke/rs...

An old habit of mine from Germany, where games often got censored, is to store offline copies, because you can only pry those off my cold dead hands. Sign #StopKillingGames: eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#... Do not leave your games unprotected on some cloud-store, put them on an SDD.

Spherical Harmonic Exponentials for Efficient Glossy Reflections (Activision/Microsoft) Presentation by the OG Peter Shirley diglib.eg.org/items/581aa7... www.youtube.com/live/md6SXpb...

I went online for the first time in 1988. The Internet of my childhood was one of pseudonyms and no accounts. I keep bumping into younger generations who do not even understand that concept anymore. The solution is decentralize until the web becomes ungovernable again.

🇪🇺 Freude Schöner Götterfunke 🇪🇺 #stopkillinggames The single-player always-online nonsense will stop! The right to play games forever shall not be infringed! If you are from the #EU: Do not engage in online discourse, simply sign and spread the word. eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

Even LLMs are so lazy now they just revert to letmegooglethat.com

RSS-Librarian, a tool to store readibility-extracted articles in a custom RSS feed, now has a mobile-friendly interface. Go check it out: Demo instance: alternator.hstn.me Code: github.com/thefranke/rs...

EU & UK friends, lend your gun to @stopkillinggames.bsky.social. We can't pretend games are an art-form when we constantly burn them on a pyre. Do NOT get distracted by lobbyist gaslighting, astroturfers or fifth columnists. Sign the petition, and spread the word! www.stopkillinggames.com

I am at the annual #Huawei Developer Conference HDC2025. Look for the two-headed eagle to find me, always happy to connect!

Want to get notified when there are new free/100% discounted assets on Epic's Fab.com? Subscribe here via #RSS: bridge.easter.fr?action=displ...

Epic Games @Fab RSS for free items... Soon available on an #RSS-Bridge instance near you.

Shader Execution Reordering is one of those things that would have been stellar in the early optimization phase of the Unity GPU Lightmapper, would have saved us tons of code manually reordering paths after each bounce. devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/ser/

3D Gaussian Splats are DEAD 😆 Nothing can kill the triangular king! trianglesplatting.github.io

#Mozilla shuts down #Pocket. support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fut... Do you know what cant be shutdown? The RSS-Librarian, which adds your extracted, readable articles to a custom #RSS feed! Source: github.com/thefranke/rs... Documentation: www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2024/04/...

Out of all of the Warhammer Skulls Festival trailers, Mechanicus 2 takes the Golden Throne. The soundtrack already sounds even better than the original! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7ig...

The "Traditional and Neural Order-Independent Transparency" tutorial at Eurographics 2025 was a big success. You can find the material links here: www.tobias-franke.eu/publications... Also, name our band

I’m at Eurographics 2025 in London until Thursday night. Happy to talk, simply look for the right symbol and you will find me.

Because of high popularity our tutorial has been moves to room NTF2 @EurographicsC

Come join us now

Join our tutorial tomorrow at @[email protected] 2025 from 9:00 - 12:30. The team from the University of Ioannina (@[email protected] and others) together with the #Huawei Game Acceleration Technology group will present insights into rendering OIT the neural way.

I'm here for the ridiculous advertising on the radio, but this looks nice too www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRL...

Got a train ride ahead of me and a sweet half-documentary half early Christmas present in front of me!

Last days in white paradise

LOL, reminds me of a poster my colleague at Fraunhofer IGD used to have behind his desk x.com/heyitsgilroy...

#Cryptpad is a great open-source drop-in solution for the two abysmal, centralized & enshitified Google Docs and Microsoft 365. No account necessary, E2EE built-in, self-hostable. Give it a try. I regularly move files of friends over for collaboration. cryptpad.org

RSS-Bridge's main instance now featuring Shadertoy, go subscribe! rss-bridge.org/bridge01/#br...

In the grim darkness of the near future, there is no AGI, only memes x.com/sama/status/...

Regular profile reminder. Fediverse: graphics.social/@thefranke And alternatives Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/thef... Xitter: x.com/thefranke Consider the Fediverse account the true source. I do not trust Bluesky will turn out any better than X at this point.

OS side AI-functionality is simply #ChatControl by walking through the exit backwards. Sooner or later governments will ask for the the data of the friendly spy on your device. techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s...

First instance featuring #Shadertoy bridge. Subscribe to categories and follow new shaders in your #RSS reader: rssbridge.flossboxin.org.in?action=displ...

Revolt, an open-source alternative to Discord: github.com/revoltchat Looking good, will give it a spin tonight.

Do not let GPT 4o near your kids!

Time Warp: Delayed-Choice Quantum Erasure "Wave-particle duality of light (and other electromagnetic energy), as an objective 2-state reality, is a myth." drgblackwell.substack.com/p/time-warp-...

Shadertoy RSS-Bridge is merged \o/ github.com/RSS-Bridge/r...

Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-time High-fidelity Radiance Field Rendering svraster.github.io

It's over for #iCloud. Remove all your data because it is effectively backdoored via the UK. If you absolutely have to simply pre-encrypt your data via VeraCrypt or GPG or something. www.macrumors.com/2025/02/21/a...

Godspeed on your journey through the Void. I’ll craft a bonecharm in your honor.

Shadertoy, in my RSS reader?!

If this goes through and Apple complies, the entire iCloud is unsafe regardless if you're in the UK or not. Once E2EE is broken, it's broken everywhere. Switch off iCloud preemptively and move to local storage. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Nitter is back! Can read Twitter again in an interface that isn't pure cancer. github.com/zedeus/nitte...

Radiance Fields, but instead of splats using meshes. No need for a special hierarchy as the Voronoi construction is the hierarchy. Might even do well on mobile... x.com/taiyasaki/st...