omg my post got featured in Graphics Programming Weekly 🤩

mike deserves way more followers

i genuinely feel so fucking bad slaughtering these cute little guys. look at them slumber peacefully. they even do the dog leg thing 😭😭😭

nicegraf's vk backend is moving to c++. i had initially picked c as an experiment to see how survivable it is -- it served me well for ~10 years, but as i want to evolve nicegraf to catch up with modern hw capabilities, c has become more of a hindrance than an asset.

someone clever put together a machine. you put food into the machine, it captures nutrients and spits them out of one end, and literal excrement comes out the other end. would you say that this machine is "eating"? I ask myself this question every time an llm tells me it's "thinking".

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this list is horrifyingly long 😢

the first few years after moving to the states were objectively not a happy time for me. I might have struggled with depression. But enough time has passed since then that my mind has started to subconsciously romanticize that period. I think I'm starting to feel the weight of the years a bit.

a couple 3D aabb tricks: gpfault.net/posts/aabb-t...

fun typo to have up for 20 years :-)

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...

-- 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. 🧵

trellis.2 shows some impressive results in the promotional material but the demo on hugging face is not even close, can anyone explain why? did they handpick the examples or are they running an "optimized" version of the model for the demo?

/r/halflife in shambles right now

interesting read sunfishcode.github.io/blog/2018/10...

Day 2: Adding two integers on x86? Not with `add`! The compiler uses a completely different instruction—one designed for memory addressing. Why? xania.org/202512/02-ad... youtu.be/BOvg0sGJnes #AoCO2025

Ever wonder why compilers use `xor eax, eax` to zero registers? It's smaller AND faster—CPUs optimise it out entirely! Day 1 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations: xania.org/202512/01-xo... Video: youtu.be/eLjZ48gqbyg #AoCO2025

the song that plays in sidorovich's bunker in the og SoC (and stalker 2 too). i remember hearing it for the first time and thinking i was playing some modded version, because it didn't sound like anything i had heard before in a game soundtrack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDCN...

anyone understand why on linux ld (dynamic linker) and glibc seem to be inextricably linked (no pun intended)? i.e. it appears that one can't call dlopen without also linking to glibc. on windows, afaik, an app with no dependency on c runtime library can still load DLLs with LoadLibrary just fine...

amsterdam

breda

what the hell is this brdf

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". I wrote it up over on Mastodon (I find it's better at long threads): mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...

I went to the Van Gogh museum and my favorite painting in the entire exhibition isn't even Van Gogh, it's a Belgian painter I hadn't heard of before. This painting is fucking crazy to see in person, it's like hdr. I kind of don't want to leave.

Here's a great video explaining/showing why the common CG practice of plugging smudge/fingerprints/dirt/whatever maps into roughness is wrong and why it should be done using material layering instead. This video is really well-made! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW4L...

Feeling inspired from the doom talks at GPC. All around great conference this year, hope to return for the next :)

surprised games workshop hasn't sued them out of existence

from Gabe Gear to GabeCube

fascinating

task manager guy canceled for running sleazy scareware business in the naughties :( youtu.be/1GeF9AjlqP8?...

RenderDoc v1.41 is now available! It adds threaded support for shader debugging, enabling debugging of shaders that use subgroup/wave operations and simulating all threads in a compute group. Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend... Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds

i was today years old when i learned the chemical brothers sampled a moroccan song for galvanize youtu.be/q0AcZkR_LUs?...

lesson for progressive candidates who care about winning: don't let pieces of shit like Hasan anywhere near your orbit. The only thing it does is give your opponents ammo against you. Hasan fanbase is a marginal group of terminally online troglodytes and you don't have to appeal to them.

i love the poppy field mission in stalker 2. may be the only time a game made me feel actually quite emotional. the poppy field harbors echoes of the past - you can hear Mityay's family. and let me tell you, as a child of refugees, that shit hits like a ton of bricks, especially in ukrainian dub.

🪔 happy Diwali!

oh no There are linked in posts about 6-7

another day another reminder that dynamic linkers are hell. a linux .so loads and calls vk entrypoints in a function a linux program calls the above-mentioned .so if the program uses `dlopen` to work with the .so, all good. if it links against it - immediate crash. and the fix is...

10/10 you can finally play guitar while sitting around the campfire with your fellow stalkers.

once again, 1996

update: moved to nvidia texture tools. once you get past the account barrier, it actually has an ergonomic api and docs that people somewhat care about.

1996

who tf did this to my system AGAIN? i hadn't ran any ml stuff since the last time this happened, so i blame blender

For anyone who's tried to use spherical harmonics for lighting and found the notation- and terminology- heavy definitions confusing, highly recommend this classic: grahamhazel.com/blog/2017/12... I think Graham Hazel's blog was down for a long time, years maybe, but works now!

upsetting fact i learned today: the global population of cheetahs is only about 6 thousand.

ANANTA is giving me shenmue vibes.

it has been 5 years since dynamic_rendering extension became available and market penetration is still low. even counting just desktop platforms it seems to be about 50%. very sad.

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