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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

20 years?! whoa what. Anyway, thanks for making it!

Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, that’s a good usual advice. But once in a while, apparently one has to do the unusual advice. When are those cases? Haha no one knows, good luck! ;)

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Perversely enough, in this particular case it might be faster for variables that get “spilled” - they get into some sort of “stack memory” which can get indexed

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Unroll a loop, make shader 10x faster", where I accidentally speed up Blender's Kuwahara compositor node on Apple GPUs (and elsewhere). aras-p.info/blog/2026/10...

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Turns out a little library I made for making #vulkan shaders smoller, "smol-v", is ten years old by now. Huh! github.com/aras-p/smol-v I just merged improved robustness against invalid data that someone contributed, & added more shaders to test data (from recent blender, godot, unity versions).

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GitHub - aras-p/smol-v: SMOL-V: like Vulkan/Khronos SPIR-V, but smaller.

SMOL-V: like Vulkan/Khronos SPIR-V, but smaller. Contribute to aras-p/smol-v development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My local wireframe teapot appreciates the story!

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yeah it kinda finishes in the mid 90s. There’s no things like Demopaja or werkkzeug or any others mentioned at all

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.

Border collie, Clamp collie, Repeat collie, Mirror collie

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Happy birthday! And a great journey, “live many lives” is a good guide.

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is such excellent work, thank you!

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Nicole Feng @nicole--f.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵

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Cristina Ramos @saffroncr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I was told you couldn't do 3D on the Playdate, so I did it. Then I was told there was no way I could create exterior levels like those in Mirror's Edge, so I proved them wrong again.

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ooh that fishing game is clever! Because there is very little (in terms of pixels) that needs to “be done”. But yeah, overall playdate HW feels very much like “first Pentium” hardware; you *can* do 3D on it but it is not easy. And if you do, the rest of your game better use very little CPU.

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 29/06/2026

We're finally bringing our powerful and user friendly CPU profiler to Linux! The beta version is now publically available, and it's free for 60 days during the open beta, so there's really no excuse not to try it out! Just download, extract, optimize. superluminal.eu/applications...

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Superluminal For Linux | Fast Profiling Without The Challenges

No pages of installation guides. No Gigabytes to download and install. Just unzip, run and focus on performance issues. It Just Works™.

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Short blog post about Joys of cancelling a TBB task group: aras-p.info/blog/2026/06...

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Joys of cancelling a TBB task group · Aras' website

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Ooh! Like the old joke that muddy brown only needs a two-channel framebuffer (www.codersnotes.com/notes/two-ch...), but make it be the bisexual flag colors. Someone please do it!

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Two-channel framebuffers for next-gen color schemes

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Posting this for a specific audience here.

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

You'd think that in Unity "how do I do a square root?" has a simple answer. It does not! Here's a blog post about various complexities of math related codegen, precision and performance in Unity: aras-p.info/blog/2026/06... #unity

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Unity vs floating point · Aras' website

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

that is as much unknown as the question, "Does there exist The Unreal MJP?"

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Also, was the 1999 64KB demo "g-cube" an inspiration? www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...

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g-cube by Matrix

64k for MS-Dos, 1st at Mekka & Symposium 1999

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

10 years?! Where did time go?! Anyway, congrats and huge thanks!

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Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 @pouncelight.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

📣🍏 Tiny Glade now runs on macOS! Mac users can finally pet the sheep (um, the rest of the game should work too 🤭) You'll need one of them "Apple silicon" Mac 'puters, like M1, M2, etc. or MacBook Neo. See our full post for details: store.steampowered.com/news/app/219...

Tiny Glade running on a MacBook Neo. Two sheep plushies stand on either side of the laptop, and the scene is surrounded by plants and flowers.

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Yes yes and yes. Eg Blender has very begrudgingly deployed them, and yes they make experience for actual users worse. But without them, all sites are constantly DDoS’ed by AI scrapers that can’t easily be blocked since they originate from a myriad of IP addresses

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Rehearsals once every 8 years or so! ;)

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Cheating as well, since this is fairly recent. My midlife crisis is this now.

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Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Here’s a cool talk from GPC 2025 on the architecture of Blender’s Cycles renderer. There is no one right answer to designing a renderer; as a rendering engineer, I really like seeing how different renderers choose different tradeoffs to meet user needs: youtu.be/etGMk9wYwNs

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Blender Cycles: architecture of a unified CPU/GPU path tracer

YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Yeah the “oh yeah we just have a bytecode interpreter on a GPU” is the most interesting part to me. Fun fact, Sergey almost wanted to skip that part, since he did not think it is interesting or noteworthy. Glad I convinced him otherwise ;)

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Andre Weissflog @flohofwoe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

'Syntonic Dentiforms' demo remake by @aras-p.bsky.social is using sokol for rendering and audio :) aras-p.info/blog/2026/04... Direct link to web version: aras-p.github.io/SyntonicDent...

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Syntonic Dentiforms redux · Aras' website

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Zig does some good stuff, but yeah, lately feels like it got the worst parts of the “handmade” vibe.

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Brian Karis @briankaris.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

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Nanite Tessellation

Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...

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Dieter @dieter-debaets.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

New blog post is finally up: (Ab)using Shader Execution Reordering. A bit of outside the box usage of SER (for better or worse). debaetsd.github.io/posts/ser/

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(Ab)using Shader Execution Reordering - Dieter's Blog

Notes on creative usage of shader execution reordering

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Sebastian Aaltonen @sebaaltonen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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".

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No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen

Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

So! Back in 2011, BitSquid made a "Header Hero" tool for C/C++ codebase header analysis. I did some updates to it in 2018. But now that I'm on Linux, I rewrote the UI (now it works on Win+Mac+Linux), did some performance improvements, and some other tweaks. Here: github.com/aras-p/header_hero

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GitHub - aras-p/header_hero: Fork of Bitsquid's Header Hero tool

Fork of Bitsquid's Header Hero tool. Contribute to aras-p/header_hero development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Arseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · 08/12/2025

After nine years of development, meshoptimizer has reached its first major version, 1.0! This release focuses on improvements in clusterization and simplification as well as stabilization. Here's a release announcement with more details on past, present and future; please RT! meshoptimizer.org/v1

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🐇 meshoptimizer v1.0

Mesh optimization library that makes meshes smaller and faster to render

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Two years of working on Blender Video Sequence Editor: aras-p.info/blog/2025/11... So far so good, let's continue! #blender #vse

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Two years of Blender VSE · Aras' website

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

was great talking to you! best of luck with the game & vfx stuffs

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Small blog post comparing binary sizes & performance of OpenEXR vs tinyexr libraries aras-p.info/blog/2025/11...

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OpenEXR vs tinyexr · Aras' website

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