Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialAlex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 15/03/2026GPU Tracing Participating Media alextardif.com/Participatin... Just some HLSL this time :-) Not a long form post, I've been reading PBR and maybe this will be helpful to share! 07912
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialSoufiane KHIAT @soufianekhiat.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Qaws (قوس) Arabic for *arc*, *bow*, *curve*. A dependency-free C11 library for creating, evaluating, sampling, traversing, and inspecting parametric curves and surfaces in 2D and 3D. A dependency-free C11 library for parametric curves and surfaces in 2D/3D. 1/13 23615
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialGleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Hey everyone, new tutorial! How to Light 3D Portraits in Blender. Full article and a video. 4 levels of difficulty: from one light to full cinematic rig. Many lighting theory nuggets to be found. #b3d #blender3d www.creativeshrimp.com/character-li...creativeshrimp.comHow to Light 3D Portraits in Blender (Photographic Lighting Techniques) • Creative ShrimpIn this tutorial (video and article) we’ll look at a mix of practical Blender techniques and timeless lighting principles used in cinematic character lighting - things like light direction, falloff, f... 1133
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialNathan Reed @reedbeta.bsky.social · 10/03/2026My team just open-sourced our internal implementation of the OpenPBR BSDF from our path tracer: github.com/adobe/openpb...github.comGitHub - adobe/openpbr-bsdf: Adobe's reference implementation of the OpenPBR BSDFAdobe's reference implementation of the OpenPBR BSDF - adobe/openpbr-bsdf 0267
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialFernando Ramallo @fernantastic.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I'm looking for work! I love technical challenges and got a deep artistic sense. I enjoy stunning folks with visuals AND coding efficiently. I worked on games, XR and immersive art, but especially interested in museum displays, music videos, science education. DM me! Would love to chat. 02314
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialOmar @ocornut.bsky.social · 15/08/2024I wrote a thing... "10 years of Dear ImGui" (long post) 🎉 github.com/ocornut/imgu...github.com10 years of Dear ImGui · Issue #7892 · ocornut/imgui10 years of Dear ImGui 🎉 On August 11, 2014, I published v1.00 of Dear ImGui on GitHub. I thought I would take the occasion to reflect about it, share some data points and stories, and generally th... 14514
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialYining Karl Li @yiningkarlli.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Recordings for Graphics Programming Conference 2024 are now up. The lineup is packed with amazing talks ranging from rendering for games like Tiny Glade, Hades, and Baldur’s Gate 3, to even a talk on designing your own GPU! youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comGraphics Programming Conference 2024 - YouTubeThe Graphics Programming Conference is a three day event in November. We have keynotes from industry experts, presentations, and “masterclass” workshops with... 13514
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialJacco Bikker 🎦 @jbikker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024tiny_bvh.h reached version 1.0.0! github.com/jbikker/tiny... To celebrate, this version has a lot of new features: * New speedtest tool, with traversal kernel validation and shadow ray reporting * Optimized BVH now outperforms Embree (not fair, that's not Embrees best builder, to be cont.) (1/2) 14813
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialDaniel Holden @theorangeduck.bsky.social · 23/11/2024My latest article is about one of my favorite techniques in graphics - Müller's method of Polar Decomposition. It also details some variations, including one which is ~2x faster to compute with more regular convergence. theorangeduck.com/page/variati... 27016
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialMaximilian Tarpini @maxtarpini.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I'm keeping updated this super comprehensive collection of <Light Transport> papers (by tech and by year), from the Kajiya eq to latest differential and neural approaches, passing by RRT and MC theories | As before, repost if you think it may be useful to others. drive.google.com/drive/folder... 18825
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialAdam Marrs @acmarrs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Essential learning: intro-to-restir.cwyman.org 19321
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialMax Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 17/11/2024A few years ago I wrote about how to create good manipulators for a 3d editor. I chose an immediate mode design, so that manipulators graphics is generated per frame and can animate and react to the user actions. maxliani.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/o...maxliani.wordpress.comOffline to Realtime: ManipulatorsIn my new system design I allow to draw anything and give free range of what a manipulator may be and how it may behave. The infrastructure in Gesture::Input and Gesture::Graphics comes together to… 09016
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialKostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Digital Dragons 2024 Technical Presentation recordings, including several rendering related ones t.co/cef7qJqeFNt.cohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0c83RnEMSo&list=PLqUbLv3b1v3fWCYLzkDzd5DAyi6j6fW37 0305
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialAlan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 30/09/2024This is getting a lot of new attention. If you like this topic, I have a newer blog post on how to make a low discrepancy shuffle iterator. blog.demofox.org/2024/05/19/a... 1143
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialAlan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 14/05/2024For folks that know me as "the blue noise guy", I've put together a 50 minute video that talks about many of the things I've learned in my ~decade long dive into noise and related topics - up to and including our latest paper published days ago at I3D. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=teth... 515839
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialKostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Tool to visualise samples drawn from various distributions for some intuition into how they are laid out spatially wkjarosz.github.io/SamplinSafari/. Eg samples from a uniform distribution are not as uniform as one might think and prone to clustering compared to a low discrepancy one like Hammersley 1459
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialKostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Great collection of resources for GPU architecture and optimisation gist.github.com/silvesthu/50...gist.github.comGPU Optimization for GameDevGPU Optimization for GameDev. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. 08626
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialStefan Pijnacker @stefanpijnacker.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Worked some more on my path tracer this evening. Having a lot of fun building small test scenes :) 2281
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialJacco Bikker 🎦 @jbikker.bsky.social · 10/11/2024New in tiny_bvh.h today: - 4/8-wide BVH layout - Conversion (collapse) from BVH2 to BVH4/8, Wald-style - Basic intersect functions for both layouts. BVH4 will primarily feed a fast OpenCL intersection function, but the CPU may also benefit. BVH8 will be used for CWBVH. github.com/jbikker/tiny...github.comGitHub - jbikker/tinybvh: Single-header BVH construction and traversal library.Single-header BVH construction and traversal library. - jbikker/tinybvh 1255
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialNikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 10/11/2024The next 3 articles in my CPU rasterizer tutorial series are done! These are all about adding full 3D support, with perspective projection, perspective interpolation, triangle clipping, and a depth buffer. lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/i...lisyarus.github.ioImplementing a tiny CPU rasterizer | Part 4: Changing perspective 410317
Reposted by @voxeltracer.bsky.socialJacco Bikker 🎦 @jbikker.bsky.social · 06/11/2024pinned post: Hi, my name is Jacco Bikker, I teach game C/C++ and graphics at Breda University. Blog (mostly technical articles): jacco.ompf2.com/author/jbikk... Github: github.com/jbikker Currently working on tiny_bvh.h! Other projects: Lighthouse 2 path tracer, voxel rendering. 1717
