floating soft glass made with WebGPU, compute shader, and a fully custom material r3f.maximeheckel.com/webgpu/glass

broke new grounds on my quest to increase my aerobic capacity 6.3mi in 1h03 at 128bpm avg first run I felt fully in control

📝 New Blog Post 📝 I finally sat down to write about what I learned building a Volumetric Lighting effect for the web In it, I detail how to blend raymarching with post-processing to create beautiful atmospheric light to elevate your next WebGL project blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/shapin...

This blog is a miracle for terrain nerds frozenfractal.com/blog/2025/6/...

✍️ Can’t wait to share with you everything I’ve learned about Volumetric Lighting on Tuesday So many new fun shading techniques to tell you about

Just ❤️ what open source can do. Was looking for a free app that provides a ruler to help me check if UI elements are aligned. Found Free Ruler, and loved it. github.com/pascalpp/Fre...

sneak peek of some diagrams that will make it into the next blog post translating concepts that feel super clear in my mind into those is hard but the result is super satisfying when it it works

halfway point crossed

Had a blast getting to talk about shaders and hanging out with everyone at #Config2025 For those who came to my talk or watched it online, thank you so much! If you missed it, I just updated the blog post of this talk with the recording: blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/config...

got tempted to rebuild this (x.com/5tr4n0/statu...) in webgl using my volumetric lighting shader work not as good but still a fun one to build r3f.maximeheckel.com/tunnel

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first draft for my upcoming blog post on volumetric lighting excited to tell you what I've been learning and experimenting with

volumetric x lens flare (in orbit) r3f.maximeheckel.com/solar

volumetric lighting post-processing effect implemented with raymarching r3f.maximeheckel.com/arches

reached central park today

It's been 34 days since a New Yorker was abducted from his apartment lobby and sent to a detention facility in Louisiana. The Trump administration now admits this kidnapping was *solely* on the basis of protected First Amendment speech. Free Mahmoud now.

they finally match (new blog design is out, not perfect yet, but better nonetheless) personal: maximeheckel.com blog: blog.maximeheckel.com

20k 2 bridges 2 blisters

took me so long to get this to feel somewhat right 🧈

deep in the zone (2)

it's been 3 days since I've been looking at this version and I don't hate it, so it may survive next up, need to polish/redo some aspect of the article layout

🌍 Continuing the Three.js Gamedev course with Infinite worlds—how do you keep them smooth and memory under control? We'll tackle how to build a streaming system and look at what features Three.js offers to make this easier. Sign up here👉 simondev.teachable.com/p/games-thre... #threejs #gamedev

little sneak peek at a potential new blog landing page I've been working on for the past few days still early, and I have a lot more I want to experiment with

got my US citizenship 🇺🇸

Did a video covering useful math for game developers, check it out! Made with #threejs / #shaders Video: youtu.be/eRVRioN4GwA

410 mi later - time for a new pair of running shoes the difference of the state of the cushion between the new and the old one is pretty mind-blowing

📝 New Blog Post 📝 I recently went on a "shader creative-spree" where Post-Processing became my main tool for transforming 3D scenes into stylized art In it, I share the techniques behind the many effects I built and how I combined them in unique ways blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/post-p...

✍️ Excited to share with you everything behind my post-processing shaders this coming Tuesday Built a lot, learned even more

What started as a small personal project to make another animated shot turned into a small full-fledged 2-minutes short film! Almost done! Stay tuned :)

spending an ungodly amount of time on Figma to draw these to illustrate some patterns for my upcoming blog post 5 more to go

slowly recovering from the holidays: first 10mi run of the year and a fast one!

Depixelizing "La Corniche near Monaco" r3f.maximeheckel.com/pixel-loading

started writing down my thoughts on my recent post-processing work and how to share what I learned with you all lots of behind the scenes demos coming

VHS post-processing effect inspired by the work of @polygon1993.bsky.social r3f.maximeheckel.com/vhs

Fear of Dark youtu.be/BcQ-8R2fiZg

fluted glass post-processing effect with dynamic lighting r3f.maximeheckel.com/fluted-glass

Holy shit @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24...

some sub-pixel pattern experiments first one is inspired by the work of John Provencher the rest are entirely hand crafted threshold matrices r3f.maximeheckel.com/pattern-art

live in about 10 hours from now - subscribe/mark your calendars/tell your friends/share etc. c: Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opB...

cooking some new stylized shaders r3f.maximeheckel.com/pixel-statue

finally some recognition for one of my favorite Youtuber of all time if you don’t know how to start your year or what to watch 👉 youtube.com/@geowizard?s...

Just got back to NYC, winter arc begins 🫡 - back to running (long runs + track) and gym - lots of stylized shader experiments - 1 stylized shader/post-processing blog post - Naturalization interview 🇺🇸 - AI mini projects

so funny to see the bad place having yet another meltdown about immigration (legal this time) while studying for my citizenship interview 🇺🇸

We’re doing something a bit different this year and previewing our next big update to Halide. Here’s what’s coming in Halide Mark III. Also: a new community, and a huge thank you for an incredible 2024! www.lux.camera/the-road-to-...

new stream, reimplementing image transition with #threejs TSL shaders from Active Theory demo website motionvectorshowcase.activetheory.dev, video: youtube.com/live/AS1Zb26...

with december being the month I travel the most and thus writing / exploring new shader topics not being ideal I continued my long tradition of using my little free time for a blanket dependency updates on my blog, website, playgrounds, etc... 💆 everything is ready and tested for the new year

Last week to mint and contribute to the Bitframes crowdfund! 100% of net proceeds are going to the production of a documentary film on the history of generative & computer art. 🎬 → bitframes.io

☀️ Build a stunning solar system in Three.js—a fiery, glowing sun, orbiting planets, and a slick lens flare (thanks @andersonmancini.bsky.social )! Create beautiful visuals and keep things smooth with an intro to GPU profiling and optimization techniques. 👉 simondev.teachable.com/p/games-thre...

Finally found the time to work on the portfolio again. Day/night cycles are working (and tweakable) and pretty flowers that glow in the dark ☀️