Yeah I was fooled for a bit at first by the cool visualizations, but after reading it some more I would actively tell people to avoid this article because of the misinformation.

This is almost certainly LLM generated. It's not just a copy-edit either; some of the text seems semi accurate, some things seem like half-truths, and some is just nonsensical. Maybe this helps someone understand the cache mechanics, but I'd rather see expert human written content on the subject.

New post up! Bindless Oriented Graphics Programming alextardif.com/BindlessProg...

I've seen this over a decade ago for the first time and it's becoming more and more relevant today. This aged better than most single malts. youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...

#hypersonic #ipadpro #procreate

SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances in RT Rendering: Megalights: Stochastic Direct Lighting in Unreal Engine 5 youtu.be/dmmN8_c8Tb0?...

2025 Advances in RT Rendering: RT Subsurface Scattering via Hybrid RESTIR-Path Tracing & Diffusion youtu.be/uIYzBb_qbm8?...

SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination youtu.be/VTrdeqMMMK0?...

Here's my top 9 for 2025. This has been a very difficult year both personally & for games / films as we saw even more job losses. But it's time to stop waiting for my future to find me, & it's time to make my own future. More to come soon. In the meantime, I wish everyone the very best end of year!

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

wayhey

Youtube has just gifted me the wildest recommendation for Xmas 😳😂😅 youtu.be/AbT1yJYyAjM?...

#landinghover #alienplanet #procreate #ipadpro

Have recently been obsessed with (again) optimizing my "low-mid size" bitonic GPU sorter even more than it was. The current state summerized in the images below for a 7900 XTX for the red team and a 4090 for the green team. For once the former handedly beats the latter across the board!

This looks amazing! youtu.be/jAAyJFBzG4k?...

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

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...

Over the past two months, I’ve been diving into the Essence morph tech we built for Keeper - how we got here, how it works and some neat-looking results. I’m really proud of this system (and the game in general), and I hope you’ve enjoyed learning more about it. :)

So, if a Normal Map can make something flat imply the direction of the light - maybe our game could have lighting from all directions! (4/7)

Our upcoming game The Hearth and Harbour is fully 2D, but with some neat tricks we’ve made it look 3D. Ethan, our environment artist, did this with a special type of texture called a Normal Map. (Thread! 1/7)

The Eroded Settlement and the Graverobber Knight

The morph of the week is the "nightmare bridge". Nick did the initial pass and I tweaked the morph to make it more weird and "tentacely". This whole sequence is one of my favorites in the game.

ROUTINE GIVEAWAY BOOTING UP... To celebrate ROUTINE's launch on @xbox.com, we’ve created a unique custom controller inspired by the game’s Cosmonaut Assistance Tool. Enter for a chance to win one (1)! ► Repost ► And Follow @rawfury.bsky.social Winner will be announced on December 19. Good luck!

One aspect of Keeper's morph tech I'm fairly proud of is the fact that I wrote more than 50 pages of documentation and recorded about an hour of tutorial videos for this system.

Great talk on the subject of animation in Half Life: Alyx Konsoll 2021: Christine Phelan - Creating a Nightmare in Half-Life: Alyx youtu.be/Wf92MhRZ4i8?...

@mimus.bsky.social I hope that many of your fellow on the Alien: Isolation 2 team members are playing (or have played) Routine 🙏🏼

You can make things really weird by stacking a symmetry or twist operator on top of the fractal warp.

Threw together a collection of gameplay animations of our bird companion, Twig. Thanks @doublefine.com and @leepetty.bsky.social for giving me this opportunity to work with such cool character designed by @leviryken.bsky.social. #animation

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".

IMO Ubisoft's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (& it's DLC) is leagues better that the movie franchise it's based on.

One of the best movie of all time turned 30 today. Time for my yearly re-watch !

Just started watching season 3 of Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV boy does it look good. @framestore.bsky.social 's work is magnificent. The iced out fur/groom on those mammoths (& all other animals) is wild 😳 tv.apple.com/en/show/preh...

My absolute favorite (and hands-down the most used) spatial warp in Keeper is the fractal. Our morph tech supports both Mandelbulb and Quaternion fractals. It's addictively cool and I could play with this all day long. :)

Over 4 years ago I wrote an article about trying to solve the texture seam you often get in shader generated UVs. Especially in things like equirectangular UVs, though any kind of discontinuity will cause them. bgolus.medium.com/distinctive-...

That DF best game GFX of 2025 is ridiculous. The fact that what is probably one of the best looking game ever created is not mentioned is insane (@doublefine.com Keeper) among other nonsense like saying that Routine uses Lumen (it does not) 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

#alienworld #alienship #procreate #digital #ipadpro #noai

Big thanks to RenderRam for doing an extended interview with me on the olden days of 3dsmax, my shift to Blender, the SoulburnScripts, GenAI, and so many other topics. Hope some of you find it interesting, & subscribe to Vjekoslav's channel, he's got some good stuff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCLH...

forgive me father for I have blogged simulacrum.pika.page/posts/but-th...

Josh hits it.

The new Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic game is never seeing the light of day.

We’ve just released a new Hotfix for ROUTINE that fixes the Film Grain effects toggle not persisting between levels. Check the patch notes for Hotfix 1.9.0.0 here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/606...

So Remedy have just gone full on Souls-like BS with Control 2? 🤮🤮

Whatever this award shit is trying to be, it's an embarrassment to the human race. Absolutely dreadful from top to bottom.

FYI girl.surgery/bad_paper

Currently the job market is cratering and people aren’t going to the theaters or buying stuff. What a time to tell your audience to “imagine” shit yourselves, you fucking plebs.

One giant leap towards no artist ever getting paid to make art ever again.

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

boycott AI!! Cancel Disney+. I will only ever give money to real creators. People who consume gen AI deserve shame and embarrassment. You are propping up a system that funnels money from creatives straight to the corpos