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Martin Panknin

@mpanknin.bsky.social

Rendering & Graphics Engineer. Building Kiln. github.com/MPanknin/kiln-render

Martin Panknin @mpanknin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hi folks. Time series support will be available in Kiln soon. Small preview below. Cheers #WebGPU #OME-Zarr #VolumeRendering

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Martin Panknin @mpanknin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Multichannel rendering in Kiln v0.4.1 beta. This is a fruit fly brain. Unlike the ones currently all over your feed, it doesn't play Beat Saber. It just sits there, streamed from OME-Zarr in native WebGPU and rendered at full 16-bit precision across four fluorescence channels. #OME-Zarr #WebGPU

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Martin Panknin @mpanknin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Kiln (0.4.0-beta) is available. Main new feature of this version is the initial support for multichannel datasets. Currently 4 channels max. Several other improvements on streaming, rendering, internals. Documentation and examples: github.com/MPanknin/kil... #WebGPU #OME-Zarr #Microscopy

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Martin Panknin @mpanknin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sneak preview of upcoming multichannel support in Kiln. The initial implementation focuses on basic channel rendering. Per-channel visibility, color, and leveling. More advanced controls will follow. Side note: I have no idea what I'm looking at, but it's fun. #WebGPU #OME-Zarr

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Martin Panknin @mpanknin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Volumetric exploration of multi-resolution CryoET data in native WebGPU. Kiln (0.3.0) adds float32 support, OME-Zarr v0.4, slice views and more. github.com/MPanknin/kil... Vibrio cholerae tomogram from CryoET Data Portal. cryoetdataportal.czscience.com #WebGPU #OME-Zarr #CryoET

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Martin Panknin @mpanknin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Small update from Kilian. Kiln (0.2.1) is now available on npm. I refactored the internals into what I’d now consider a stable and usable API surface and published the initial package. New official address of our friend Kilian: www.npmjs.com/package/kiln... #webgpu #volume-rendering #ome-zarr

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Martin Panknin @mpanknin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Small update from Kilian. Kiln (0.2.0) now supports local filesystem streaming, auto-leveling from dataset metadata, improved OME-Zarr handling (v0.5 uint8/unit16) and a few improvements on the UI. github.com/MPanknin/kil... #webgpu #volume-rendering #ome-zarr

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Martin Panknin @mpanknin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Kiln also has experimental OME-Zarr support. This is the Beechnut — a 3 GB micro-CT scan streamed directly from a public OME-Zarr store into the browser. No preprocessing, no conversion. github.com/MPanknin/kil... #WebGPU #OMEZarr #VolumeRendering

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Martin Panknin @mpanknin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Meet Kilian. A 2 GB CT scan of a chameleon — rendering in the browser in a few hundred milliseconds. Built with Kiln: a WebGPU-native out-of-core volume renderer. Bricked volume storage, GPU memory virtualization, LRU streaming, compute shader ray marching. Open source: github.com/MPanknin/kil...

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