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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 28/09/2026

hi friends I'm very excited to announce Halfspace, my experimental cross-platform IDE for solid modeling with distance fields! This has been in progress since midway through last year, and it's finally "done enough" to make it more public.

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Halfspace

An IDE for solid modelling with distance fields

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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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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

I feel like one of the most radical, best and most rebelliously good things you can do right now in the informational online space is just....give people credit, love, support and shoutouts. Even if they just inspired you or prodded a thought you built on, name them and thank them loudly.

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Baptiste GENEST @baptiste-genest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As graphics researchers or geometry teachers, we speak about 3D using screenshots, and that's just sad... What if you could make SLides on top of PolyscOPE? You can using SLOPE! Slope allows you to synchronize a 3D viewer, animated meshes, shaders, live demos, equations (& more) with your slides!

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JMS55 @jms5517.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New blog post! Go read about making ReSTIR better, killing ReSTIR, improving denoising, and more! jms55.github.io/posts/2026-0...

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 17/09/2026

The Message From Deep Space is such a smart puzzle game. Slowly figure out how to communicate with aliens, starting with basic math concepts and building up from there.

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Become Earth's First Xeno-Linguist in Sci-Fi Puzzler The Message from Deep Space

Here's my number, so call me maybe?

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 15/09/2026

From the outside, rendering optimization can look a little bit like black magic. That's why @clayjohn.bsky.social, lead maintainer of the rendering team, is here to show a few examples of some optimizations from this year to highlight that optimizing rendering code isn’t as scary as it sounds.

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Optimizing CPU-side Rendering Code – Godot Engine

Optimizing CPU code is a lot of fun. Here’s how we do it

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 16/09/2026

We optimized draw calls by 99% (lol) in Hidden Folks 2 by writing some tools to find all textures used in a level, generate a level-specific atlas, and replace individual texture references with atlas textures. Thread below 🧵👇🏼 #godotengine

Two side-by-side screenshots showing before and after we applied a texture atlas optimization to our game Hidden Folks two, the before showing 13318 draw calls and the after showing 113 draw calls

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turtlespook @turtlespook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

it’s cold comfort to artists, musicians, writers, and all the other communities ravaged by AI co’s, but i’m glad that at least some part of STEM is growing a backbone and asserting its values technology is meant to serve people - how we use it is a choice. none of this is necessary or inevitable

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Go outside and look for lizards while it's still hot out.

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Let me expand upon this 🔽 and say something about AIs, mathematics, proofs, conjectures, problem-solving, goalposts, paperclips, genii and, more importantly, Campbell/Goodhart's law. 🧵⤵️ •1/38

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bel @steelybel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

when u see claude on the github repo

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Mike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One thing I learned from this article is that (on NVIDIA GPUs) 128-byte cache lines are divided into 4 32-byte sectors, which are read independently. So there's a benefit to reducing random-access reads below the cache-line size, but not below 32 bytes. blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens...

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What happens when a GPU reads memory | Doubleword

Following an LDG.E SASS instruction through the hardware units in an RTX 4090.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's really hard to beat this for a practical, worked example of how modern CPU/memory architectures affect performance. It describes the issues with (and corresponding solutions for) a simple matrix transpose: gudok.xyz/transpose/.

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What it takes to transpose a matrix

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Mousey Doll M0-U53.1🏳️‍⚧️♿️ @mouseydolly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry has gone to the one place not corrupted by capitalism,,, Itll miss him

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Para @parakerman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

new gits episode, new wallpaper candidate

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

a lot of colanders on the timeline this morning. not sure I've ever seen a timeline with more colanders...

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 12/08/2026

The US really just doesn't have the architecture to do Dark Souls 3-style eclipses

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Marc B. Reynolds @marc-b-reynolds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A post in which I claim it's no work at all to perform integer division in floating point. marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2026/08... #floatingpoint #optimization

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Raph Levien @raphlinus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I just posted a blog post on my hyperbezier curve: linebender.org/blog/hyperbe... I've actually been working on this for years, and only recently figured out a solution to the parameter mapping problem. I think this curve is potentially better than cubic Béziers for 2D vector graphic design.

A plot of two roughly S-shaped curves. In gray is a cubic Bézier, and the Bézier control points are shown. In blue is an example of the hyperbezier, with roughly similar shape but much smoother curvature variation. There is also a "curvature comb" in green.

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turtlespook @turtlespook.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

these goddamn distance fields are gonna haunt me for the rest of my life, aren’t they (rangers FC stadium, glasgow)

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's interesting because so much in math and physics, people do their best work in their 20s, but I feel like I'm still improving, pushing 60 and yet writing better code than in the past on multiple axes: cleaner code, cleaner API design, and still finding a clever problem solution here and there.

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Nicholas Sharp @nmwsharp.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Tomorrow I'll speak at the FPTalks series on floating point and numerical analysis, about robust geometry for neural implicit surfaces (work w/ @_AlecJacobson). The other talks sound amazing, and I love this area! Check out this great organization. fptalks.org/talks/fptalk...

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Xiana Carrera @xianacarrera.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The talk I presented at #SIGGRAPH2026 is now available on YouTube, for anyone who couldn’t attend or would like to revisit it :) youtu.be/OFJYBUArVPc?...

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Dual Contouring of Signed Distance Data - SIGGRAPH 2026 [Technical paper presentation]

YouTube video by Xiana Carrera

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Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Another recent Animation Obsessive article that I really like: this one about Hayao Miyazaki's gorgeous image boards. Miyazaki's image boards aren't storyboards, but they're not fleshed out concept art either; they kind of sit somewhere in between. animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-image-...

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turtlespook @turtlespook.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

thank you @cakejumper.bsky.social and @ivgorchestra.com for tonight! you guys put on a fantastic show!!

Helix concert hall, vacated during the intermission

Cake and the conductor chatting on-stage

The IVGO playing their last piece of the night, from Death Stranding 2

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Nicole Feng @nicole--f.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵

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Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This week's issue of Animation Obsessive features a wonderful article about Studio Ghibli's color designer, Michiyo Yasuda. Her work was just gorgeous; I really admire how Ghibli films keep a more toned down natural palette without going muddy/murky. animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

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The Artist Who Colored Ghibli

Plus: news.

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Stephen Hill @selfshadow.com · 27/07/2026

SIGGRAPH 2026 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2026/07/26/s.... I'll continue to add to the list as more things show up online.

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SIGGRAPH 2026 Links

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 26/07/2026

Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc

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turtlespook @turtlespook.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

making your own mochi is honestly pretty fun - just gotta remember to snap a photo before half of them get eaten D;

The dining table mid-mochi-making: one bowl holds the balls of black sesame filling and the rice dough occupies the other

A photo of the mochi after dinner, with less than one third of the balls remaining

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s-phoenix.bsky.social @s-phoenix.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Proud of myself today. What started as a simple infinite-grid shader turned into a month-long journey through rendering, maths, and plenty of frustration—but I finally got it working. I wrote about everything I learned: willofindie.com/proj/infinit... #webgpu #rustlang #glsl #realtimerendering

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Infinite Grid Shader

Learning to create an infinite grid procedurally using GLSL shaders. This post contains my notes, lessons and findings, and is intended for personal reference. Therefore, you might find errors, misjud...

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 23/07/2026

yu deng, the winner of the 2026 Fields Medal, the "nobel prize for mathematics", cites yuri manga in particular as helping ground and comfort him during his work

For comfort, Deng turned to manga. “I remember him at Courant. He was always holding a manga,” said Jalal Shatah (opens a new tab), a professor there who formerly chaired the math department. Deng particularly liked stories about deep friendship and romance and found himself drawn to a genre known as yuri, which focuses on those kinds of relationships between women — stories that “feel nice and warm and beautiful,” as he put it. They helped him be kinder to himself, “more comfortable with life.”

from Quanta Magazine

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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

At SIGGRAPH 2026 I saw this absolute banger of a paper by James and James. Beautiful imagery, matched by beautiful technical work, by a father and son team, which won a best paper award. I've always loved marbleization patterns. dougjam.github.io/mixwell-2026/ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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The Public Deaths of Mormon Husbands @lordofthekevins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What do you fucking mean they embroidered all the sprites

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Tzu-Mao Li @tzumaoli.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hopefully one last SIGGRAPH advertisement. I, myself, yours truly, will present on Haolin's behalf a data-driven method for joint adaptive sampling and quadrature for integration. Wed R408A. In the end of the talk I'll argue why everyone is doing the wrong thing. Paper: suikasibyl.github.io/nqr

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Nicole Feng @nicole--f.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Tomorrow at #SIGGRAPH2026 (Monday) @ 3:45-5:35pm, come to the papers session "Creating & Iso-Surfacing SDFs" in Room 408B. A paper I'm looking forward to is "Subgrid Marching Tetrahedra" by Hossein Baktash (yes, I'm biased as his labmate, but it's a great idea) [1/n]

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turtlespook @turtlespook.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I went on a small side-quest this week after reading about the "waterfall scheme" presented [here](gpu-primitives-course.github.io) and trying/failing to find examples of it in the wild. turns out people just use different names for things: in prefix sums, it's called the "chained scan"

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GPU Programming Primitives for Computer Graphics

Abstract The course introduces programming primitives for parallel algorithms on GPUs for a wide variety of applications in computer graphics. Various parallel algorithms can be decomposed into progra...

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 17/07/2026

Once again begging people to play this

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Ahmed Mahmoud @ahdhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Next week at #SIGGRAPH 2026, we'll present "Locality-Aware Automatic Differentiation on the GPU for Mesh-Based Computations," with Rahul Goel, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and @justinmsolomon.bsky.social . Talk: Mon., July 20, 2:50 PM, Room 403-B Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... More below (1/7):

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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Stephen Hill @selfshadow.com · 13/07/2026

EGSR 2026 recordings: www.youtube.com/@egsr2026/pl... (Also linked from the programme: egsr2026.inria.fr/programme/)

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

hardware prices 🤝 astrology keeping an eye on chinese ram

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I love good games and I care deeply about the people who make them. I'm sick to death of the *military-grade denial* I've seen from nearly all corners on just how grim things have been looking. I worry that game dev has already crossed into *no longer a career, but could be a hobby* territory

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turtlespook @turtlespook.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’m not super invested in the AAA side of the games industry, but god, to gut *Id Software* of all people… I really loved their engine & rendering tech talks in recent years. so much institutional knowledge and expertise being thoughtlessly flung into the void

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If they ended up decimating id Software's tech team then I have no faith in anything they'll ever do again under the current leadership. Between last week and today's news...I just don't know what to say at this point.

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