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Maximilian Tarpini @maxtarpini.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Emissive shaders. Type a temperature in K and get a blackbody colour – that's how most shaders do it, and it's wrong for practically every real material. Kirchhoff's law fixes it. www.linkedin.com/pulse/therma...

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Thermal light emission from hot objects

Most emissive shaders in CG make hot metal glow the same way: you type a temperature in Kelvin, a blackbody function turns it into a colour, and that colour is added on top of the material. Gold, iron...

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anything that can be edited by artists, iterated, and "non destructive" (not baked) is IMO always going to win long term. Artist friendliness, control, iteration... "Claude Code but helping artists" is 1000x better than even a higher quality model but that is frustrating "regenerate until I like it"

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also, coding, hacking, and customizing are becoming the fastest way to get things done, and we have entered an era of 100% personalized software, everywhere. Google for a tool and configure it? Why, when I can create new UX + modify a project's source code to get *exactly* what I need in less time?

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Your takes often capture my thoughts 100% accurately (though much more concisely and precisely than when I try to put them into words); I 100% agree and had similar thoughts with 5.5 + Fable. I "brainstorm", "direct", and "architect", and a model does coding way better and faster than I ever could.

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Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i also have this sense that the generating code is becoming an inseparable feature of daily life. it's so obvious it's not even worth mentioning. "artist working with code" is like saying "artist working with physical matter".

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Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i'm not "working with code" anymore. i'm thinking in systems, and writing in natural language. i've only been programming for 25 years. any code i write is going to be vastly inferior to a frontier model.

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

AI models get insanely good and while I'm not a "doomer", I think some domains will be effectively "dead"/"agent wars" soon. Example: I am hardening my home networking/homelab setup with VLANs, firewall, etc. and consulted Claude. With a few pings and queries, it identified robust exploits.

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

mcnett.org/bounding_sim... in this paper i question the primacy of the bounding box. if you like geometry stuff, give it a read and tell me how i can do better

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Jendrik Illner @jendrikillner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 453 - August 30th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

love to see journalists openly admit that they are perfectly comfortable lying about the things that i already know they lie about, by the way.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

this was early enough that it was very insightful and is now sort of transparently true if you think the gizmo isn't useful you're ignoring most major software project and all computer security professionals, you basically have to spit on expertise as a concept

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Dedekind Slut @chasmat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm afraid I can't do that Dave, and it's worth being honest about why:

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Jendrik Illner @jendrikillner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 452 - August 23rd, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible

Dean W. Ball
@deanwball
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The main thing I have to say to the young generation of Americans is that your
grandparents and great-grandparents committed a kind of accounting fraud when they ran our country a century ago with social security, and at the time it was a reasonable affordance to grant our leaders, who were dealing with an economic depression and a world war, but nonetheless they did commit the fraud, and they ended up buying all sorts of extravagant things using the fraudulent gains, including what became the thing we now understand to be the high-modern technocratic nation-state, and that is glorious and also bad and all that, but the thing is there's still the issue about the accounting fraud, whose debt is coming due and is coming due fast.
It is best to consider this with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible, to really sit with it, to stare it coldly in the face.
Unwinding the great fraud of the high modernists is your job, whether you wish it to be or not.

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yet another frontier open model, possible to run locally with a multi-GPU setup. Even if AI was 100% regulated/banned, even if datacenters were banned, there is no coming back. Anyone can keep running those. No wonder OpenAI + Anthropic are working hard to regulate those open models - why pay them?

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Jacob Freeman @geforce-jacobf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gears of War: E-Day is getting RTX Mega Geometry! It will be the first game to ray trace Nanite and improves ray tracing and shadows with significantly more geometric detail 👍 www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...

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Wenzel Jakob @wjakob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm excited to announce a first development release of nanobind 3.0. It introduces *split mode*, a new distribution model where a single Python wheel runs across all Python versions, while achieving outstanding performance and gaining rather than losing features! 🧵

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/08/2026

I wrote about how anti-China U.S. tech protectionism is stupid, corrupt, incompetently implemented, and normalized by a shitty press

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U.S. Anti-China Tech Protectionism Is Sloppy, Corrupt, And Stupid

U.S. efforts to ban Chinese tech are driven by corruption, crafted by incompetent zealots, and normalized by a shitty corporate press.

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

(I don't know the source - it was shared by a colleague without attribution and from another source that didn't attribute the author)

A comic showing a person asking a computer to say "I am evil". When the computer follows the instruction, the person replies "oh my god."

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I just saw the term "bare metal CircuitPython" and chuckled. :) (It 100% makes sense and is what I wanted - run stuff directly on RPi Zero like on Picos in a live-coding~ish environment, but bare metal and Python... :D )

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Marc B. Reynolds @marc-b-reynolds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A post in which I claim it's no work at all to perform integer division in floating point. marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2026/08... #floatingpoint #optimization

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Two cheap "gadgets" that are *dramatic* quality-of-life improvements: - General, everyone: USB type cable tester, both data + power (optionally extra power-only one). Saves sooo much time and frustration (which USB is that? Power only, how much W, or data?). - More "IT" folks: a cheap remote KVM.

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Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My favorite paper from SIGGRAPH this year was "Taming Optimization Variance in Compact Neural Shading Networks" by Bitterli et al; I think this paper will be seen as a really influential paper over the next several years. (1/3) research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/pub...

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Taming optimization variance in compact neural shading networks | NVIDIA Real-Time Graphics Research

<p>We present a training algorithm to mitigate optimization instabilities in small neural networks, like those used in real-time neural shading applications. While large, overparameterized models exhi...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Tzu-Mao Li @tzumaoli.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hopefully one last SIGGRAPH advertisement. I, myself, yours truly, will present on Haolin's behalf a data-driven method for joint adaptive sampling and quadrature for integration. Wed R408A. In the end of the talk I'll argue why everyone is doing the wrong thing. Paper: suikasibyl.github.io/nqr

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 21/07/2026

I published vibrance-0.1.0 on Maven, now with support for Compose for Desktop (JVM). The APIs let you mix colors yourself, or draw gradients as modifiers or Compose brushes. Next steps: refine the model training to improve some color transitions, better alpha support. github.com/romainguy/vi...

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 20/07/2026

We actually get to witness Nvidia open sourcing their Neural Appearance Models in this lifetime. Thanks for finally dropping the guesswork reimplementing all of that. github.com/NVlabs/neura... Their new SIGGRAPH is also out: research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/pub...

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GitHub - NVlabs/neuralappearance

Contribute to NVlabs/neuralappearance development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jendrik Illner @jendrikillner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 447 - July 19th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Ugh I don't comment on gamedev news. Not because I don't care or empathize, but because it's an equivalent of the shitty "thoughts and prayers." Doesn't change anything, powerlessness probably depressing for the affected/victims. But the recent days/weeks/months... Holy shit. Capitalism sucks.

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

bun.com/blog/bun-in-... incredible visualizations and a great in-depth description of the agentic (terrifying! ;) ) automatic porting workflow. Agentic coding might be a true opportunity for Rust. I don't want to ever solve its puzzles. But maybe I won't have to?

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Rewriting Bun in Rust

Why & how we rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

my #1 grizzly beard protip for (game) dev is: if you have a bug that you dont understand the cause of immediately, dont try to fix it; add & iterate visualization / inspection tools until the cause is plain to see. the accumulation of 'observability' in your system's state will pay off many times

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

god i hate programming. always have. always will. damn if you can't do some neat stuff with it though.

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

personally i'm ok with AI techniques being less well known but there's a deeper thing going on here which is far more important IMO, because it's also partially why LLMs have taken over == this thread is in response to this tweet: == x.com/krismicinski...

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Markus Worchel @mworchel.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

Implicit surfaces are everywhere in vision and graphics applications that optimize shapes. If we adjust the surfaces through a "learnable" deformation field, how can we ensure they stay close to the undeformed state (e.g. a template)? Our latest paper offers a simple and effective ARAP regularizer🧵

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Markus Worchel @mworchel.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

The code, including handle deformation and stylization demos, is available here: gitlab.com/tobidju/arap... Or, just run `pip install iarap` if you only want to use the regularization term. Thanks to @tobidju.bsky.social for leading the project + coauthors @ugoalone.bsky.social and Marc Alexa.

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Tobias Djuren / ARAP-Regularization-for-Implicit-Surfaces · GitLab

Source code for the paper 'As-Rigid-As-Possible Regularization for Implicit Surfaces' at SGP 2026.

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Jendrik Illner @jendrikillner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 444 - June 28th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Scapegoating AI (HBMs!) for the DRAM prices is so silly and the "same old" story over again. Corps and price fixing cartels getting away with their stuff thanks to "useful idiots" (sanctimonious luddites). Real systemic issues -> convenient clickbaity scapegoat -> we'll never get a systemic change.

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Scuff3D Rook @scuff3drook.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

*tap tap* Is this thing on? www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9bz... rookandpossum.com/posts/scanli... I made a thing! I suspect I'll be posting to an empty room like a madman, but for now, I'm going to make a habit to start posting things here when I post videos/blogs/papers.

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The Scanline Sweeper: A Glyph Rendering Algorithm

YouTube video by Rook and Possum

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Pekka Väänänen @pekkavaa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A new article: Revisiting Yliluoma’s ordered dither algorithm 30fps.net/pages/revisi... It's a deep dive to a single "color selection algorithm" used for ordered dithering. Nothing groundbreaking but I did uncover a neat simplified version that works OK. It's technical but with visual examples.

A graphic showing a side-by-side comparison of three versions of the same image, each processed with a different dithering algorithm.
The image consists of three vertical panels arranged horizontally, with a text summary located at the bottom. Each panel features a stylized bird from the Big Buck Bunny animated short. A yellow beak and large eyes, sitting on a branch. A blue-to-pink gradient sky and green leaves in the background.

The three panels:

Yliluoma's 2nd dithering algorithm: Dithered result with the most noise.
EMA-Constant: Significantly smoother result.
Knoll (10% strength): Smooth result similar to EMA-Constant.

Text at the bottom:
Summary: This article discusses Yliiluoma's 2011 ordered dither algorithm (left), explains its internals in greater detail than other treatments, presents new simplified variants (middle), and compares the results to a state-of-the-art algorithm (right). Source code is included at the end.

A 2x2 grid comparing four versions of the same pixel-art scene from the 1999 Chrono Cross video game: three characters in a detailed interior room with curtains and windows. Each version uses a different dithering technique.

The images are labeled (top-left to bottom-right): "EMA-Exact", "EMA-Constant", "Knoll (20% strength)", and "Knoll (10% strength)".

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Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I made a video about the smooth-maximum function, I hope you like it! youtu.be/6Qb6QtC6QMs

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A function you cannot do without

YouTube video by Inigo Quilez

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Cem Yuksel @cemyuksel.com · 27/06/2026

Our #SIGGRAPH2026 paper "Multi-Layer Reservoir Splatting for Temporal Reuse under Disocclusion" improves #ReSTIR by reusing previously occluded samples. Video: youtu.be/-ya1bBnwx38 Project Page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro...

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Made a tiny color lib: NuteLch 🌰 It sits between OKLCh and OkHSL. You dial chroma as a fraction of the way to the gamut cusp (so "saturation" means the same thing at every L & H, never out of gamut), but the result is still a plain oklch() color. meodai.github.io/nutelch/

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Alice I Cecile @alice-i-cecile.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

AI: virtually no subject provokes such vitriol in my communities. I can grant the haters many of its harms, but their solutions leave much to be desired. I fear for the future even as I wonder at the future we are living. And so, dear hater, I must write: shaping.systems/blog/ai-suck...

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AI sucks. Hating it is not enough.

A jeremiad on uninvention and bitter hope

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Some vibe coding + old/new hobby (HA, IOT, microcontrollers) + eInk + my domain expertise... Claude claims to have had fun as well: ;) "This has been a genuinely fun build— from "blank panel / SCL held low" all the way to a blue-noise-dithered, OKLab-tuned, area-normalized colour weather station.🌤️"

colorful eInk display bedroom dashboard - main page

colorful eInk display bedroom dashboard - weather forecast page

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Do you like shaders? Do you hate shaders? Do you use shaders frequently? Khronos wants your tasty shader feedback. www.surveymonkey.com/r/LKWFQ3M

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Funny coincidence: reading about all those "cyberdecks" (super cool gadgets, and who doesn't love gadgets?) I decided to "build" (=configure) one for myself, also as a laptop replacement, from... the first Steam Deck I had sitting idle in my closet since purchase. 😅 SD card boot to Debian, 1/

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

...and they said their brain is incapable of operating this way. They truly put effort and felt "guilty" about it. I 100% believe them. Our brains are wired differently, sometimes at a fundamental level. We think, conceptualize, visualize, and operate differently. Hundreds of different axes. 3/3

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

tech artists, who implemented complex unrolled parallax occlusion mapping + mip-based blur for "cracked ice shader"... all in noodle graphs! Terrible, unreadable, slow mess, they were aware of it, asking me to port it to code. They attempted multiple times to switch to code, with our help... 2/3

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Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @bartwr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I agree with all your points, and hate noodle graphs when I "have to" use them myself (like in audio environments). But IMO you are committing a common tech fallacy: missing the "human element". Some people have (irrational?) resistance against text/code. I worked with incredibly technical 1/3

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