Ever since I first heard of spherical harmonics as an approximation in computer graphics, I have felt that the way they are explained is too complicated. Sometimes the explanations assume a bunch of m...

Building the open social economy.

Game data middleware - describe schemas, edit data, pack data, load data, hot reloading support - Atrix256/df_game_data

Reflections on independent software development, the changing middleware industry, AI, and the future of real-time texture compression.

Contact recycling is a technique I developed for Box2D and Box3D. Contact recycling can drastically improve rigid body simulation performance, making the process of computing contact points almost fre...

Header-only dependency-free BVH construction and traversal library. - jbikker/tinybvh

Renderistically - Simon Rodriguez

Learn how AMD Radeon GPU Analyzer 2.15 correlates pre-compiled AMD GPU code objects back to source lines, making ISA analysis and optimization far easier.

Game-Dev-Flation!

4k / procedural graphics for Windows, Deadline (Berlin) 2026

When WebGPU first shipped back in 2023, one of the biggest gaps that it had relative to its native counterparts was that it didn’t support bindless resources. Happily, WebGPU is on the cusp of support...

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...

The separating axis test (SAT) works well for computing contact manifolds. Unlike GJK, it is robust when shapes are very close together and it works when shapes are overlapped. Box3D uses SAT for comp...

An IDE for solid modelling with distance fields

YouTube video by Tom Forsyth

Encoding textures with tile shaders: on most iPhones, as fast as not encoding at all.

Single-header dependency-free BVH construction and traversal library. - jbikker/tinybvh

Welcome to the Dolphin 2609's accompanying Progress Report! Like everyone else, we've been doing our best to weather the Techpocalypse brought on by AI, but it's really come after us in the past few m...

There's an intuitive move every render artist reaches for when a subsurface material looks too dense: turn up SSS scale. Dense SSS with MFP:1 Bigger mean free path (SSS radius).

A Vulkan reimplementation of NVIDIA's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering network, bit-exact against the original. - maanHimself/OpenDLSS-NR

When subsurface scattering (SSS) is driven by a blue-noise distribution, classical light transport breaks down. Light no longer decays exponentially according to the traditional Beer-Lambert law.

Spark 1.4 adds real-time BC6H and ASTC HDR texture compression, BC1 Ultra, BC7 NRM, ASTC 5×5, and broader GPU compatibility.

The WebGPU / WGSL standardization group is meeting in November and your feedback will help shape the agenda and prioritize future developments of the API and language. Results will be summarized and ...