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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Made kompoloi / Greek style թզբեխ from some sandalwood beads.

I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code. (And yes it's really been 10 years 👴). therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...

new in the library. got to be one of the best active sci-fi writers of modern times.

I never thought the United States would be dumb enough to do our own Lysenko, and yet here we are.

another noodle based graph system, another day of productivity down the drain. these fucking things need to be incinerated. all they do is make you waste time, they are of negative utility, they hurt speed and collaboration.

мое воображение когда слышу слова "spherical harmonics"

Dragon slaying RPG in this style please

this is revisionist history. this man allowed Putin to invade Ukraine in 2014. that's when this whole mess started. paradoxically Biden was the only prez that knew to do the right thing even though I expected him to be a limpdicked pushover like the others.

on a lark, went listening to avicii yesterday. it occurred to me that if the music video for silouhettes came out today, it would probably face a remarkably harsher response than it did ~13 years ago. paradoxically, something like that is needed even more today than it was back then.

Having siggraph fomo since it seems like it's better this year than last

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Nice introduction (or refresher) to PBR: "Physically Based Rendering: Putting Pieces Together", Game Industry Conference 2024 presentation recording www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwyM...

hope this is the last gpu i buy for a looong time

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MORE ABOUT JUMPS THAN YOU WANTED TO KNOW the final part of my assembly tutorial series. gpfault.net/posts/asm-tu...

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hello new oomfs. looks like the assembly tutorial hit the front page of the orange site again!

Hardware virtual textures look like a marvelous tool for large terrains or volume compression. Alas, they are in a sad state in terms of performance and usability. And strangely, the (very bad) binding perfs varies a lot with the driver. → read here: hal.science/hal-05138369 @rcmz0.bsky.social

Former Headquarters of Weyerhaeuser Timber in Federal Way, Washington State, USA r/brutalism

this channel has over 600 integrals www.youtube.com/@IntegralsFo...

let him cook

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever. And it does so to this beat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWjs...

it's actually not that crazy when you accept it as a fact that like 50% of americans think that living in dictatorships is actually Cool and Good, and regularly fantasize about it (applies equally to right-wingers and tankies).

skype's death throes. feels strangely sad, even though for the past 10 years i have used it exclusively to communicate with parents.