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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Started my first job in game dev today. Looking forward to pushing some pretty pixels @TriumphStudios soon! 👀

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MΛX @m4xc.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Been working on voxel ray-tracing again lately, this time using a BVH2 TLAS and SVT64 (64tree) BLAS(s). The heat gradient in the video shows the step count from 0 to 128. This scene contains 256 voxel dragons, each model is 256^3 voxels :)

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A fellow Ocean Rendering enthusiast has written a blog post that goes into the scary math involved with the famous Tessendorf Model and similar implementations. A must read for anyone looking to learn more about Ocean Simulation! Great stuff @rtryan98.bsky.social rtryan98.github.io/2025/10/04/o...

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Ocean Rendering, Part 1 - Simulation · Robert Ryan - Graphics Programmer

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Looking forward to the 2nd edition!Can't wait to see what this year has in store for us 👀

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Amélie Heinrich @dispatchgraph.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Hey BlueSky! I wrote my first ever blog post in a while, talking about how I built my RHI for my game engine Kaleidoscope. Link is ⬇️

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Started working on a Vulkan renderer last November but I didn't have much time to work on it due to school. I made good progress lately so I thought I'd share my progress on here since I've been "absent" for a while. I got Sponza running at ~3ms @1080p. 1 Dir Light and IBL, nothing too fancy 😄

Sponza running at ~3ms @1080p with 1 Directional Light and IBL

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Yesterday marked the final release of our game, Nakon. It runs on a custom engine, built for PS5 and Windows 10/11. I mainly worked on the rendering, so stuff like Cel Shading, Lighting, FXAA, PS5 backend, Optimizations and much more. You can download the game for yourself here: buas.itch.io/nakon

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Nakon by Breda University of Applied Sciences, BuasJoey, tBoons, Allen Philip, Tycro Games, J111M, Gikster007, Mika Halbauer, alexstn, PappaNiels, desytsv, Viktor231407, Des

An arcade FPS game, made in a custom engine - Student Project

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

buas.itch.io

Nakon by Breda University of Applied Sciences, BuasJoey, tBoons, Allen Philip, Tycro Games, J111M, Gikster007, Mika Halbauer, alexstn, PappaNiels, desytsv, Viktor231407, Des

An arcade FPS game, made in a custom engine - Student Project

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Have A SPU-ky Halloween, Everyone @okonomiyonda.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Every time I hear there is another GDC, I thank kutaragi-sama I am not invited. That being said, hope the rest of y'all have fun

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MΛX @m4xc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I decided to open source my implementation of Surfel Radiance Cascades Diffuse Global Illumination, since I'm not longer actively working on it. Hopefully the code can serve as a guide to others who can push this idea further :) github.com/mxcop/src-dgi

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GitHub - mxcop/src-dgi: Surfel Radiance Cascades Diffuse Global Illumination

Surfel Radiance Cascades Diffuse Global Illumination - mxcop/src-dgi

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This just popped up in my Google News tab on my phone. Looks pretty interesting. I wonder what the pricing will be like. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

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Startup claims its Zeus GPU is 10X faster than Nvidia's RTX 5090

280 RTX 5090 GPUs = 28 Zeus GPUs according to Bolt Graphics

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Amélie Heinrich @dispatchgraph.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Implemented CSM and spot light shadows in uni game engine

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Jacco Bikker 🎦 @jbikker.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Year 1 / Block B completed! Our students worked 8 weeks on a 3D Metal Gear clone, for PC and Raspberry Pi, with their own custom C++ OpenGL ES engine. Video: Work by Jack Tollenaar. Bullet Physics, skeletal animation, navmeshes, reflection probes and lots more. Amazing work.

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The blog post is finally done. Give it read if you want to find out more about Real-Time Ocean Rendering in games! Let me know what you think 😄 gikster.dev/posts/Ocean-...

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Oceans: Theory to Implementation

Introduction to Ocean Rendering

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MΛX @m4xc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I wrote a blog post on my implementation of the Surfel maintenance pipeline from my Surfel Radiance Cascades project. Most of what I learned came from "SIGGRAPH 2021: Global Illumination Based on Surfels" a great presentation from EA SEED :) m4xc.dev/blog/surfel-...

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MΛX - Surfel Maintenance for Global Illumination

A comprehensive explanation of my implementation of Surfel probe maintenance.

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Foam has been added and that concludes the programming work for this project, as this is the last week. There is a chance that I can take this project over into the next one, where together with a bunch of other Programmers we will develop a specific genre game engine. Looking forward to it 😁

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A small update on my Water Rendering journey. I've been busy with shading and researching how I can go from Oceans to Rivers with the integration of flow maps. I don't think I will have enough time to move to Rivers due to time constraints for the project, so I will stick to Oceans for now :P

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ading.dev @ading.dev · 13/01/2025

I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields. doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf github.com/ading2210/do...

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Amélie Heinrich @dispatchgraph.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Hey there bsky! I'm looking for an internship in graphics/engine programming anywhere in the world (I'm willing to relocate). If you happen to know any open positions or if you work at a company that is taking interns, feel free to contact me! Portfolio ⬇️

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

unbothered. moisturized. in my lane. literally incapable of targeting x86

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I'm a bit late, but happy new year everyone! To celebrate another full rotation around the sun, enjoy this meme:

Mind-boggling effects on the PlayStation

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Gabe Rundlett @gaberundlett.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Working on adding the Tau Cannon to my Half-Life mod for Teardown

a voxelized Gordon Freeman in Xen, holding the Tau Cannon

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I've been silent for a while, mainly because I didn't have anything interesting to show. I was busy the last couple of days implementing the Tessendorf Model for Ocean Rendering. Massive thanks to @acerola.gg for his videos which helped me a lot! Here's a video of my implementation:

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MΛX @m4xc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

GPC is the first graphics conference I ever attended, and I had a great time, props to the organizers! As a BUas student I presented my work on Radiance Cascades during the student showcase, which was very fun & exciting, I did my best to briefly explain the essence of RC :) youtu.be/MONs5wMy6Rw?...

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Student Showcase

YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The recorded presentations from GPC 2024 just dropped on the official GPC YouTube channel! I can highly recommend anyone interested in graphics to check them out. I can't wait to go back on some of these :) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Graphics Programming Conference 2024 - YouTube

The Graphics Programming Conference is a three day event in November. We have keynotes from industry experts, presentations, and “masterclass” workshops with...

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1 It was a nice and easy challenge! I realised late that AoC started though :/ We have a private leaderboard at uni, so we'll see who ends up being first at the end :p

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Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 27/11/2024

Just randomly stumbled upon this; NASA's open-source C/C++ analyzer IKOS. github.com/NASA-SW-VnV/... Some nice features: - Creates a report database - Dashboarding for the complete project - Explains error types

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GitHub - NASA-SW-VnV/ikos: Static analyzer for C/C++ based on the theory of Abstract Interpretation.

Static analyzer for C/C++ based on the theory of Abstract Interpretation. - NASA-SW-VnV/ikos

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Whenever I hear the words "Minecraft" and "Ray Tracing" in the same sentence again, I will be thinking of this and only this: youtu.be/VRqy0WWFaA8?...

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3D RAY TRACING on REDSTONE COMPUTER in MINECRAFT + Download

YouTube video by Mod Punchtree

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Jacco Bikker 🎦 @jbikker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

via programmerhumor (X).

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MΛX @m4xc.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I've been using Slang these past few days for a new project I've started working on. Currently working on the rasterization pipeline, I have a cube so far :) Slang has been really nice so far; using the User Guide on their website as well as the vk_mini_samples repo. github.com/nvpro-sample...

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

They also released a Slang Playground, similar to Shadertoy! Slang looks to be the future of Shader Programming. I wonder if it will be supported on Playstation and other consoles on next gen... shader-slang.com/slang-playgr...

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Someone shared this with me recently and it's such a cool article with great detail and good visuals that I wanted to share it here as well. Hope you enjoy it :) blog.frost.kiwi/analytical-a...

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AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing

How to fix jaggies the analytical way with some juicy secrets

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MΛX @m4xc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Re-posting some results I previously shared on Twitter :) These results are from a demo project I made for Radiance Cascades in 3D. It took quite some debugging & iterating to get here, but these results are very exciting. If all goes well I will be working on a production ready version very soon :D

Blue & green emissive cubes rendered with Radiance Cascades.

Part of a Menger sponge with sky lighting rendered with Radiance Cascades.

Random cubes rendered with Radiance Cascades.

Sky lighting rendered with Radiance Cascades.

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hey fellow Graphics people! For my next uni project I have decided to dive into some river rendering (pun intended lol). My current plan is to combine FFT (fast fourier transforms), commonly used in Ocean Rendering, with flowmaps. If anyone has any tips or some resources, please let me know :)

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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Still one of the most accessible explanations of the rendering equation out there

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I just found out about Slang, the shading language. It strives to help with cross-api shaders. It looks like one can just write their shaders in Slang, and then compile to the equivalent of their favourite API. Sounds pretty cool to me! I wonder what are the downsides... shader-slang.com

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The Slang Programming Language

Productivity and performance for real-time graphics developers

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Engine update time! #graphics #vulkan - Implemented uniform buffer objects - Learned about descriptor sets, layouts and pools - Textured quad - Name still hasn't changed due to lack of a better name🫠

A textured quad being rendered using Vulkan

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

So the first edition of GPC is starting next Tuesday and I am wondering how many people will be there. I hear it's already become more popular than EPC which is also being held and organized by BUas. Anyway, I'm really excited for the talks and meeting some other folks within the #graphics sphere :)

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A bit of an update on my Vulkan Engine: - I named it "Molten" (turns out there is a library already called moltenvk 😡) - Made some abstractions the other day so I don't stare at 1k lines of code in one file - Got Vertex Buffers up and running today - The repo is public. Feel free to give feedback!

4 beautifully colored triangles rendered using vertex buffers in Vulkan

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Adam Marrs @acmarrs.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

[August 4, 2021] I am delighted to announce that Ray Tracing Gems II is available *now* and is *free* to download! 7 sections. 50 chapters. 90 authors from across the globe. Download #RTGII here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Turns out that 2 major events happened today... First, Trump wins the election unexpectedly, and then the more important one is that I finally managed to get a triangle on screen in my first Vulkan project. Only took ~900 lines of code 😅

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

"And so... it begins..." - some guy in a movie, probably First time trying Vulkan. If you have any tips for a Vulkan noob, lemme know :)

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Finally managed to get IBL implemented. Granted, without the pre-filtering steps. I ran into this issue where the BRDF LUT was creating some artifacts on the Damaged Helmet. I then decided to take a less "correct" approach and not use the pre-filtered BRDF in the Specular calculation. Here it is:

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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Happy Halloween everyone!

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George Bolba @gikster.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Hello @gameengines.bsky.social, can I get the custom engine label, please?

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Lea - Newin AKA Shodan’s girlfriend @newincpp.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

It's been a long time, how about a graphics study ? I'm going to look at Forspoken. (I wanted to look at it exactly because it had a good art direction that wasn't quite delivered on the final image)

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