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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yet another magic data texture I had to create RGBA8_UNorm 16x16 (z-order) 40 pixels left, all for some damn lightning

OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ohhh my god. I might actually have a valid use to train a neural network on something. LTCs GGX approximation uses a 3x3 matrix with five variables, which they normalize one to make it four and store that in a texture. They later just use two textures, but I dont like that.. z = f(x,y).. smooth.. :O

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

juuuust in case you were curious, these are my solutions to the width, height, and centroid of the Henyey-Greenstein Phase Function. I was trying to reparameterize it into a linear transform for reasons

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

light irradiance is actually quite easy btw, its just *rest* thats hard.

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Literally half my notes are like this lol

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ohh the half vector "normalize(lightDir + viewDir)" is the direction in which a surface normal reflects all the light from into the cameras view! Always wondered wtf the half vector was www.desmos.com/calculator/y...

desmos.com

Light-View Half Vector

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a fun problem for the nerds www.desmos.com/calculator/s... this one actually has a very simple form!

desmos.com

Triangle Bisection Problem

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

im tellin you right now, dont sleep on avif as an image file format. the only downside I see so far is simply how long it takes to encode

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

dude im telling you, the people that designed power supply connectors on the power supply side Ḅ̶̢̛͎̗̹̖̯̽̾̊͝͝͠Ĕ̵̜̤̪̮͐̔̊͠ͅT̴̙̠͉͎͇̆̐̒͋̋͒͝͠ͅT̶̥͎̝̲̱̦͛̒͆̌̒́̑Ę̵̱̻͕̰̒̇̐Ř̶̙̣͎̫̯̺͌̃̓͋́̕͝ ̸̢͉̩̞̱̣̪̬͋̅B̸̠̙̹̯̈́̔̾̈́ͅḘ̴͍̦͈̣̿̂̉̓͊͝ͅ ̴̡̨̹̜̖̠̋̉̏̄M̵͍̼͉͍͍͔̯̰̐̈́̂̃̇́̚͠A̷̭̒̿K̶̼͋̏͂͗̈́̂Ī̷̡̦̹͓̝͑́ͅN̵̠̂̚ͅͅG̸͇̩̅̈ ̸̡̥̟̔͐͐̓̓͐̚͝S̶̛̬̘̹͖̭̭͔̒͑͌̔̋͝ͅĔ̴͎̌Á̸͓͎̩̳͔̖̱̀͜T̷̙̳̜͓̱͑̔̑͐͜ ̸͚͖̖͇̤̮̗̈͌̂̒̑͜B̷̹̉́E̶̡̦͉͂̿̄̎̑̕L̶̖̩͇͚̍͑͋̿̒T̷̨̮̰̬̻͉̲̍̏̕S̵͖̱͑

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Found yet another project that I never had enough time to finish

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yo, im fuckin sick of dragging a bunch of things around in large heirarchies, so I made a tool in like ten minutes. Select all the shit you want, then right click some other game object, and "Reparent to Selection." I havent tested this, but it works so far lol

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I havent even finished this video and I've added like three things to my wtf list. This guys also making a camera emulation series as well; all round decent channel it seems youtu.be/5_Jy97TzZuM

youtu.be

30 little-known Blender tricks

YouTube video by Robin Squares

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

God if only building stupidly strong server style computers wasn’t a fortune right now mannn I’ve spent like the last two-ish three weeks doing at least one *heavy* compute task that pins my cpu or gpu to 100% usage for an hour or two, per day.

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

to the blender power users, do you have any extremely esoteric keybinds / Quick favourites that you set and actually use? mine off the top of my head are - Q: Reload Scripts (I do a lot of blender plugin stuff) - F1 -> Set Attribute (To set custom data for faces and such, like a vertex integer)

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

you know I find a certain type of beauty in doing things "well" in the sense of graphics. Like this shit lowkey dope looking as hell XD

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh my god I figured out how to get blender orientations to work with unity. Do everything like you would in blender, but export with (image 1) then on the UNITY SIDE, enable (image 2) and apply. magically coordinates and rotations are the SAME.

Image depicting blender FBX export settings, with Apply Scalings set to FBX All, Forward set to Y Forward, and Up set to Z Up.

Image depicting Bake Axis Conversion enabled in the FBX importer settings on Unity.

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AcChosen @acchosen.com · 06/08/2026

Hot Take: As a world creator, I'd be willing to live with having performance rankings for worlds if it meant we could reduce the current limits on avatars. I don't know if this post is satire or not.

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

huh. turns out dithering doubles the size of your normals if you export from blender.. good to know.

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I always see some crazy shit when im trying to do some outlandish stuff lol

Attempt to reconstruct mesh face normals with a very colourful mistake

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

fun fact: converting LinearEyeDepth to Linear01Depth is stupid fuckin easy. z_eye / far = z_01 and if you're using _ZBufferParams, the w component just so happens to be 1/far.. so z_eye * _ZBufferParams.w = z_01

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Over time I may get back to pushing the rest of the shaders, but here's the spot light and point light. feel free to replace the normal reconstruction method if you wish. github.com/OwenTheProgr...

github.com

GitHub - OwenTheProgrammer/ObjectGI: The shaders I made for ObjectGI a long time ago

The shaders I made for ObjectGI a long time ago. Contribute to OwenTheProgrammer/ObjectGI development by creating an account on GitHub.

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Distilled my normal reconstruction stuff over the past three years into something readible, sadly work in progress has been held up by job searching github.com/OwenTheProgr...

github.com

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Spent the pass few days trying to make a PS1 gpu emulator as faithfully as possible. Still trying to figure out how theyd do the rasterization in hardware with fixed point math (the GTE is documented far more than the GPU is) and of course im curious if this will work with VR projection matrices :3

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

It seems I may be destined for Staples after all.

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

aaand the game developer / shader developer / software thats not IT and web job search begins!

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I seem to have walked my ass through a shower thought into a long long month. yes this is reconstructed entirely from the depth buffer, nothing else, not even a grabpass.

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

yet another one of those "damn I really hope I didnt screw anything up XD" types of problems.. Reducing the Perspective-N-Point design matrix through partitioned low-rank approximation (EYM). The original 2N x 12 SVD reduced to 2N x 4, the rest is back substitution under x = (A A+)x + (I - A A+)x

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

oh my god the hlsl tables are an XY selection table. that took me months to figure out..

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

fun fact, if you go through the work to derive the quadratic equation, the point where you convert the sqrt(b^2 - 4ac / (4a^2)) is often factored out as sqrt(b^2 - 4ac) / 2a, but if you want the +sqrt to be the larger root, and the -sqrt to be the smaller root, you need this instead.

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

To my shader devs, I have made a unitypackage that adds a menu create context to create a new CGINC file, you're welcome 💜 github.com/OwenTheProgr...

github.com

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We really eating hot pockets in the garage, contemplating life choices at 2am

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I fear I may need to job hunt soon, as much as I hate the industry as it currently stands, I dont know how long a can hold to "stability" in my life

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

just found out GPUs dont like running 100% utilization, vram at 7GHz, 2^80 operations total, but im still amazed at the fact it only left to cry at.. ahem. operation 7,409,760,794,050,560. and I accidentally asked it to allocate 17.7GB of vram and compute 2 billion things.. which it did in 9 seconds

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I remember seeing this shader and wanting to some day create something like it. Im definitely capable of such things now, and much more.. but I should have known why shadertoy had it featured again. rest in peace kali. yet another brick in my road gone. www.shadertoy.com/view/XsBXWt

shadertoy.com

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Pema99 @pema99.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

(🧵 1/6) Recently I've been working on an HLSL interpreter, which can execute shader code entirely on the CPU github.com/pema99/HLSLI... I used it to make a cute little interactive debugger demo. You can try it yourself at pema.dev/hlsl/

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

you ever just store a 64x64x32 texture3D in a single 32x32 RGBAFloat texture?

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

(obvious flashing light warning) I figured id make a debug shader for this wack ass processor layout and even for 16x16, theres a lot of data. Each bar represents a decoded value of some kind.

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

For fuck sake can the barometric pressure stop swinging wildly above and below 1000mbar? My brain contains zero coherent thoughts FOR ONCE

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Redid my error function approximation for really no reason lol but I got the deviation terms down even more! it also doesnt die past like 14.. so thats a bonus.. For anyone curious why the erf(x) function is useful, erf(x) = 2/sqrt(pi) * int_0^x{e^{-t^2} dt}

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

trippy.. (64x64 conformal mapping from polar coordinates to [-1, 1] x [-1, 1] square; dont worry bout it :3)

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

aint no one gonna be ready for this one lmao

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Every professional beatsaber player will eventually end up reading: "lighthouse: LHR-18765EEA C: IMU went off scale." and once you do, you will see it many, many, maaanyyy times.

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

PSA on cos(atan(y,x)), sin(atan(y,x)) cos(atan(y,x)) = x/sqrt(x*x+y*y) = normalize(float2(x,y)).x sin(atan(y,x)) = y/sqrt(x*x+y*y) = normalize(float2(x,y)).y

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OwenTheProgrammer @owentheprogrammer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My god I’m gonna know AleXas music very well by the end of the night lmao

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