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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering Short video for now - I might do a longer one later? youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info. github.com/tomforsyth10...

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DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering - six minutes version

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"unintentional Soviet yaoi" is a phenomenon that needs to be studied

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Armenian kids are starting the school year with tung tung tung sahur themed notebooks

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

While reviewing the Steam Frame, I replayed all of Half Life: Alyx. It's still a singular game, and on the new hardware it sings. But to play it now is to be confronted with the possibility that nobody will be allowed to make a VR game of that scope ever again. aftermath.site/half-life-al...

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Will There Ever Be Another Half-Life: Alyx?

Half-Life: Alyx remains the big budget killer app of VR. But playing it again makes you wonder if anyone will match that ambition.

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm not even really sure if it's "refusing" to let go. This might be just straight up elder abuse. He looks taxidermied.

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

about to see what zun cooked up this time. maybe i'll finally 1cc a tohou game...

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

oh shit oh fuck they did that thing from Lena by qntm youtu.be/BUkLWjcoBc0?...

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I Put A Fly's Conscious Brain into Minecraft

YouTube video by Ro0oney

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've released my Tone Mapping Analysis tools for comparing tone mapping LUTs, implemented as a Unity project with custom editor windows. Compare how different tone mappers look when applied to HDR .exr images, with comparison sliders and a variety of overlays and graphs. github.com/runevision/T...

A table of different images, each row shown with different tone mappers. One cell shows a comparison slider.

Graphs are displayed for each tone mapper row and the Saturation Overlay is applied to the images.

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this was supposed to be a joke but turned out lowkey fire. the vocalist really does really evoke chester, assuming there weren't any editing tricks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv-Y...

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Михаил Шуфутинский / Linkin Park - 3 Сентября (Cover by ROCK PRIVET )

YouTube video by ROCK PRIVET

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

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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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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I made this shadertoy five years ago because I'm fascinated by the belief in the "evil eye". this specific amulet should be familiar to anyone from armenia/turkey/iran and might be familiar to people from the balkans. 1/2 www.shadertoy.com/view/7ls3RM

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I can see what you mean. PBR Neutral (right side) seems absolutely terrible. No other tone mapper I've tested has this issue, including my own hue-preserving one (left side).

Image with mountains, sky, and blue/pink clouds. Left side is tone mapped with my own hue preserving tone mapper. Right side is tone mapped with PBR Neutral, which is also hue preserving, but looks jarringly wrong, with the pink parts of the clouds being extremely over-saturated.

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"you've made the instant spoiled milk of songs, this sounds like cyberpsychosis, 10/10" "setting this as my alarm so i get up faster to turn it off" "Just flatline me choom" "I need trauma team" www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2hp...

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i really want to crank that at your house (cyberpunk 2077 x soulja boy)

YouTube video by Meeps

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I hate this stupid bureaucratic nonsense so much. I shouldn't NEED https in the first place. I'm serving plain html pages from an s3 bucket. It should be fucking plaintext. But just because browsers shit their pants when they see an http connection I have to care about "certificates"

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mamoniem, et al. 🌹♠️🦷🌿 @mamoniem.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

At first, screaming that graphics APIs were very ambiguous, and won’t allow us to tailor the teeny tiny details. Now, screaming about the graphics APIs becoming more detailed and exposed, and let us do a lot of work and we need now to abstract that again to simplified solutions!!

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

it's really annoying that blender uv packing does not respect overlapping uvs...

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

guys is this what "concept art" is for?

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is there anything that is remotely comparable to substance painter but open source?

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

more programmer art. probably going to stop there with this model.

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Maximilian Tarpini @maxtarpini.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

All currently available SSS models ignore internal boundary condition (aka TIR) .. but trapping rays past the critical angle (keeping'em bouncing) forces longer path lengths .. for richer, more saturated, physically accurate translucency. Same color and mfp. With / without TIR

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Knytt is one of my favorite games. If you like puzzle-platformers, give it a try.

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If the portal gun existed in real life and you put two portals on the ceiling and stood under one of them, would you get pulled up and into the portal to fall out the other one?

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Beyond the staples center you can see america, With its tired poor avenging disgrace"

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

it's very disheartening to see a competent person you looked up to go off the deep end with "here's my ai friend"

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

I will be at siggraph in LA this year, hmu if you are also there and would like to grab a drink/coffee/lunch/whatever

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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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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

nanite this virtual geometry that. artists using analogue media had to solve a lot of fundamentally the same problems as computer graphics practitioners, and they've had a lot more time to do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cd5...

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Stop Drawing Objects -- Draw the Effect We See

YouTube video by Stephen Travers Art

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Wait Oliver Tree is _actually_ dead? I genuinely thought he was pulling a stunt. But now Wikipedia has been updated and there are actual news reports about it...

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I'm happy about blueprints' demise. There should be a designer and artist friendly system to author behavior but it should be TEXT BASED. Nothing to do with ai: text is actually human-friendly. Easily editable, shareable, compact.

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

trowbridge-reitz/ggx models the distribution of micro-normals within a surface patch as if the patch was part of a perfectly reflective ellipsoid. alpha controls how squished the ellipsoid is: zero alpha = no curvature at all (degenerates into flat disc) so all micro-normals are oriented the same.

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Same applies to programmers. If you choose to rely on assisted programming, you should at least be running local models with "open weights" (still very problematic but that's the least worst option for now)

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

only difference between these two images is the tone mapper. First one is Khronos PBR neutral. Second is ACES filmic. Entire quad has the same roughness value. But you wouldn't think that, looking at the khronos tonemapper 😅

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

great, VVL silently crash when initialized by a DLL loaded from blender. pretty sure this is a new behavior too, this didn't happen on an older vulkan sdk. thank god for windbg, this could have turned into a multi hour wild goose chase...

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Remaking an old CS meme video in Blender youtu.be/AnBbrMMdMgY?...

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Door Stuck, Remade

YouTube video by 3kliksphilip

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