What a cool paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.02371 Augmenting Halide language to support scheduling that allows for the use of GPU Tensor Cores (and similar) for non-ML, general image/audio processing applications. IMO, shading languages badly need "scheduling" and heterogeneity of devices/passes.

🌶️ Hot take: ML-based graphics makes some graphics researchers unhappy for the same reason diffusion models make artists unhappy. Both automate the interesting and beautiful parts of the work and both deskill the worker. Both result in questionable quality and both are being adopted regardless.

🧠🔬 Excited to share our #NeurIPS2025 paper: "Convolution Goes Higher-Order"! We asked: Can shallow networks be as expressive as deep ones? Inspired by biological vision, we introduce higher-order convolutions that capture complex image patterns standard CNNs miss. 🧵👇

For me, vibe-coding marked a new era of personal "tooling" and UX. Instead of searching for existing tools that are either too powerful/complex, or not an exact fit, I quickly hack together simple UX apps and background services for my use - using tech I wouldn't have time to learn otherwise.

This is hilarious and a testament to Elon's manipulation and megalomania, but shows why no private and "closed" AI models should be used for any public systems and decision making. We need: Open source, open weights, open datasets, and reproducible training. And this is why they are fighting them.

Them: this is more of a comment than a question, but... Me:

Here is an alpha release of Fabric, my open source node based creative coding & prototyping env. github.com/Fabric-Proje... Enjoyed Quartz Composer, or want a more intuitive node based tool? Check it out, & help build w me! #swift, #swiftui #metal, #realtime, #gpu #graphics

Hostages. People held without any charge and released in exchanges etc. are called hostages. (And they are held in underground "tunnels".)

Two weeks ago I read some hate on Hasan Piker related to Zohran and how their association will sink his election results (lol). So I listened to 20-50min clips from his YT channel. That dude is legit good: charismatic, nuanced, pragmatic, emphatic, and policing his audience against hate.

TIL that Norbert Wiener, creator of cybernetics and one of the biggest names in early computer science, statistics, robotics, and control systems - was a workers' rights supporter, argued for labor involvement in tech, and became an anti-war activist after WW2, refusing any military-related funding.

i had a chat with lukasz and @antovsky about gamedev and stuff, if youre into that sort of thing! the middle hour is the juiciest but its all fantastic, ofc ;) youtu.be/mFBmoCv5EcQ?...

I gave a talk at Pacific Graphics 2025 on the topic of "Classical Computer Graphics in the Age of Generative AI". I've uploaded the recording to Youtube today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyci...

Mamdani's big secret: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/mamdanis-b...

TIL about Python 3.13's cute copy.replace() for creating modified copies of immutable (not only, but for them it's super convenient) types. Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y', 'z']) p0 = Point(x=0, y=50, z=10) p1 = copy.replace(p0, x=5) You can override __replace__ in your custom class too!

Here's a recording of my talk on the role of computers in making art, including so-called "AI", which was presented as the opening keynote of SIGGRAPH 2025, incorporating lessons from the history of computer graphics, photography, modern art, and philosophy of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YR... 1/

Wow I didn't know Python has cute chained comparisons: "e.g., x < y <= z is equivalent to x < y and y <= z, except that y is evaluated only once (but in both cases z is not evaluated at all when x < y is found to be false)." docs.python.org/3/reference/...

Couldn't be prouder of my intern @bingxxu.bsky.social for leading this work! 🚀 It took immense persistence to turn the initial hunch, that an attention mechanism could model long-range interactions in light transport, into a robust, working system. Huge congrats to the entire team! 🎉

👺 By the way, we spent a lot of effort curating and will release a large-scale indoor dataset (∼14k scenes) with diverse floorplans, geometries, and textures, serving as a benchmark for learning light transport.

👾 We demonstrate the versatility of our framework by reusing a shared pre-trained encoder while introducing task-specific decoders.

👏 This is our team work: with my mentor Marco @marcosalvi.bsky.social , labmates Mukund, Cheng, NV folks Bart @bartwr.bsky.social , and Tzu-Mao @tzumaoli.bsky.social & Ravi!

It takes as input the 3D scene assets—geometry, materials, and lighting represented as a point cloud—and encodes the light interaction into a 3D latent space, with codes anchored at the sampled scene points. The model is independent of both viewpoint and resolution!

Building on the analogy of light transport operator and Attention, our fully scalable model learns a generalizable light transport 3D embedding that captures global illumination.

🎄 Introducing our paper A Generalizable Light Transport 3D Embedding for Global Illumination lnkd.in/gQUMSAyV . 🙈 Just as Transformers learn long-range relationships between words or pixels, our new paper shows they can also learn how light interacts and bounces around a 3D scene.

Loving this blog post from @bartwr.bsky.social, I'm working on a cavity shader and the kernel I was using is not separable so approximating it would be great. I was so used to separable kernels used for blur shaders so I'm learning new things! bartwronski.com/2020/02/03/s...

Coming up tomorrow: I'm giving a talk/walkthrough of autodiff in Slang! These virtual meetup sessions include time for Q&A, so bring your questions! We'll kick off at 8am Pacific/11am Eastern/5pm CEST.

I finally found the time and energy to make a new blog and write a couple of posts. This time I wrote about PBR content and game development principles. Both posts are quite different so hopefully people find something interesting on either one of them. irradiance.ca/posts/

New article on my site: Better sRGB to greyscale conversion The commonly used greyscale formula is slightly off when computed in gamma space but can it be fixed? 📜 30fps.net/pages/better...

A "healthy" alternative (though some would complain about cache ;] ): strided array views. Just return a strided view - no allocations needed. User can "compact" it if they want. E.g. github.com/dsharlet/array a numpy-like multidimensional array powerhouse from my friend and a former coworker.

Happy to announce: ReSWD. Sliced Wasserstein Distances are quite powerful, but they perform a Monte Carlo (MC) integration (over random directions). During an optimization this can lead to noisy gradients due to variance. Project page: reservoirswd.github.io

Computing the exact bijection of the optimal transport (OT) problem between very large point sets is completely untractable… In our SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 paper: “BSP-OT: Sparse transport plans between discrete measures in log-linear time” we get one with typically 1% of error in a few seconds on CPU!

The Three Wise Men - existentialcomics.com/comic/622

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 410 - September 28th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Here's a recording of my talk on how perspective works! If you're interested in learning about how picture perspective works in human vision, this is the video to watch. #visionscience www.youtube.com/watch?v=eamc...

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides posted: "Adaptive Voxel-Based Order-Independent Transparency" shipping in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 by Michal Drobot from Activision Central Tech is now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

There seems to be a phenomenon on Bluesky where if you talk about AI, even critically, in a way that isn't obviously disparaging, you're marked as an AI bro and blocked. The result is that leading AI ethicists are now "AI Bros" 🙄

Insanely well-made video on EUV photolithography: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B248...

This looks absolutely fantastic! LLMs have great educational value and this is one of the best examples I have seen (as not replaceable by more "low tech" tools without existing total expertise)

Got the new iPhone Pro - my usual 3 year phone cycle. After customizing the ugly and messy initial glass look (those home screen bubbles ugh), feels great! Not a groundbreaking update, but worth it. The screen, snappiness, new cameras and formats, styles, camera button (FINALLY!), USB-C. Good buy.

I think the H1Bs were broken, gaming the system, and the minimum required salary should be at least doubled. (Based on personal experience: I didn’t win the literal H1B lottery) But this is a) extortion, and b) destroying lives of existing H1B holders. It will destroy any US skill-based industry.

The tariffs were the first step into destroying the US trust score. This shatters it. These folks have the same progress goals as Pol Pot. A return to the good old days of an agrarian economy.

Ok this YouTube video does explains these filters. I am now a fan: youtu.be/6tLk40RkgVE?...

My absolutely favorite paper in this space I recommend to anyone working on reconstruction or inverse tasks (or even any machine learning): arxiv.org/abs/1711.06077 "Perception-Distortion Tradeoff". Goes beyond quantifying the error/distortion of the reconstruction statistically, 2/

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Built a simple regex engine this week, and also threw together a visualizer site Visualizer website: miniregex.lesleylai.info Repo: codeberg.org/Lesley/minir...

I got tired of mashing together tools to write long threads with 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 and ℳα†ℏ—so I wrote La𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡! It converts Markdown and LaTeX to Unicode that can be used in “tweets”, and automatically splits long threads. Try it out! keenancrane.github.io/LaTweet/

Every lens leaves a blur signature—a hidden fingerprint in every photo. In our new #TPAMI paper, we show how to learn it fast (5 mins of capture!) with Lens Blur Fields ✨ With it, we can tell apart ‘identical’ phones by their optics, deblur images, and render realistic blurs.

in the spirit of sharing, my improvised (aka mess) shader: www.shadertoy.com/view/3fSyWG . only 'new' thing I tried was doing aa/bloom by using a cauchy distribution on the ray jitter, its a sharp but long tailed distribution. gives a pleasing analog glow, still all 1 pass, no rendertargets or blurs

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...

I've just pushed up a version of my GenoView project but implemented in Python (using raylib bindings). Hopefully that is useful to anyone doing ML research building interactive animation systems who wants to make use of PyTorch, Numpy, etc. github.com/orangeduck/GenoViewPython

So, this isn't my reactionary conclusion. It's not my opinion. I'm not being woke or virtue signaling. The vast majority of independent research, journalism, and analysis from the most equipped individuals and groups on earth agree that... let me state it clearly: Israel is committing genocide.