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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 22h

ReGIR - An advanced implementation for many-lights offline rendering tomclabault.github.io/blog/2025/re...

ReGIR - An advanced implementation for many-lights offline rendering | Tom Clabault

Tom Clabault's website

tomclabault.github.io

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Jendrik Illner @jendrikillner.bsky.social · 1d

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 413 - October 19th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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Panthavma @panthavma.bsky.social · 3d

New blog site (with RSS!), and

UPDATE ON MESH CONTOURS! I've rewrote that whole part of my star blog article on how to render lines for games, by adding my own PhD work that makes it now possible in realtime!

Read it AGAIN!
panthavma.com/articles/lin...

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Scott Anderson @impossible.bsky.social · 4d

I'm really enjoying the content on Timothy Lotte's new Youtube channel www.youtube.com/@neokineogfx

Neokineogfx

Returning Art to the Engineering of Technical GPU Generated Graphics

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Gallant @burntsushi.net · 5d

ripgrep 15 is out! Mostly a host of bug fixes, particularly around gitignore. Some minor perf improvements. A couple small features. And (partial) Jujutsu support for gitignore.

github.com/BurntSushi/r...

Release 15.0.0 · BurntSushi/ripgrep

Sponsorship is appreciated! ripgrep 15 is a new major version release of ripgrep that mostly has bug fixes, some minor performance improvements and minor new features. In case you haven't heard of...

github.com

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Zino @zino2201.bsky.social · 5d

Been a long time since I've written a blogpost.
"Heterogenous AoS instance encoding for a GPU-driven renderer"
zino2201.substack.com/p/heterogeno...

Heterogenous AoS instance encoding for a GPU-driven renderer

How to manage various instance data requirements inside a GPU-driven renderer with a unified instance representation

zino2201.substack.com

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Pablo Zurita @pzurita.bsky.social · 5d

I finally found the time and energy to make a new blog and write a couple of posts. This time I wrote about PBR content and game development principles. Both posts are quite different so hopefully people find something interesting on either one of them.

irradiance.ca/posts/

Posts

irradiance.ca

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Jendrik Illner @jendrikillner.bsky.social · 6d

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 412 - October 12th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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Erin Catto @erincatto.bsky.social · 7d

When your graphics programmer tells you to stop simulating off-screen cloth, show them this video.

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Omar @ocornut.bsky.social · 7d

dear imgui 1.92.4 released!
github.com/ocornut/imgu...

Bonus links:
- list of extensions github.com/ocornut/imgu...
- debug tools github.com/ocornut/imgu...
- error recovery github.com/ocornut/imgu...
- getting started github.com/ocornut/imgu...
- bindings & backends github.com/ocornut/imgu...

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Pekka Väänänen @pekkavaa.bsky.social · 8d

New article on my site: Better sRGB to greyscale conversion

The commonly used greyscale formula is slightly off when computed in gamma space but can it be fixed?

📜 30fps.net/pages/better...

A four-pane comparison of different formulas for greyscale conversion.
Top row: Linear sRGB (the correct way to do it), Gamma sRGB (the somewhat wrong "luma" formula).
Bottom row: CIELAB L* (a high quality option), and the new alternative gamma-space version.

Careful inspection shows the "Gamma sRGB" case is slightly dimmer at points than the others.

A quote from “Principles of Digital Image Processing” by Wilhelm Burger and Mark J. Burge. It shows weights that are a better fit for gamma-space greyscale conversion.

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Baptiste GENEST @baptiste-genest.bsky.social · 20d

Computing the exact bijection of the optimal transport (OT) problem between very large point sets is completely untractable…

In our SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 paper: “BSP-OT: Sparse transport plans between discrete measures in log-linear time” we get one with typically 1% of error in a few seconds on CPU!

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Mark Boss @markboss.bsky.social · 19d

Happy to announce: ReSWD. Sliced Wasserstein Distances are quite powerful, but they perform a Monte Carlo (MC) integration (over random directions). During an optimization this can lead to noisy gradients due to variance.

Project page: reservoirswd.github.io

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Ellie Huxtable @ellie.wtf · 20d

Finally sharing what I’ve been building for almost a year now! 🐢✨

Atuin Desktop: runbooks that run

It’s open source and in open beta now 🥰

Built for engineers who need repeatable, reliable workflows. No more copy-pasting from slack or outdated docs

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Arseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · 21d

New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome!

zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · 21d

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides posted: "Adaptive Voxel-Based Order-Independent Transparency" shipping in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 by Michal Drobot from Activision Central Tech is now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · 21d

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: youtu.be/2K-rwy4aMmU?...

RAY TRACING THE WORLD OF ASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS (Advances in Real-Time Rendering SIGGRAPH 2025)

YouTube video by SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering

youtu.be

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jb @jbakergraphics.bsky.social · 22d

Couple pieces about this work -

about the sphere packing, using voxel "dart throwing" on the GPU:
jbaker.graphics/writings/sph...

about the reuse of the data structure from the sphere packing, reinterpreting it as a grid-based raytracing acceleration structure:
jbaker.graphics/writings/dda...

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Jendrik Illner @jendrikillner.bsky.social · 22d

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 410 - September 28th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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JS Bourdon @jsbourdon.bsky.social · 25d

Our latest release is available.
devblogs.microsoft.com/pix/pix-2509...

PIX 2509.25 - support for new D3D features and devices, and misc bug fixes - PIX on Windows

Today we released PIX version 2509.25, which can be downloaded here. This release includes everything in the previous 2507.11 release, plus: A compatibility fix to make PIX work on Windows 11 24H2 or ...

devblogs.microsoft.com

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Martin Fuller @martinfuller.bsky.social · 25d

A little something I've been meaning to write for a while martinfullerblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/a...

Thank you to the awesome people at Machine Games and id Software!

Anisotropic Scaling in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and DOOM: The Dark Ages

While working on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and later DOOM: The Dark Ages, it became apparent that both titles are particularly sensitive to anisotropic sampling cost on the Xbox Series con…

martinfullerblog.wordpress.com

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Hectiq - Paper Castle & Los Pingheros @hectiq.bsky.social · 27d

✨ Am I the only one absolutely obsessed with the watercolor FX our team just pulled off? 🎨🔥
Every frame feels like a living painting and I can’t stop staring at it 😍

#GameDev #IndieDev #PaperCastle #VFX

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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 29d

Continuing on the topic of GPU utilisation and performance, as a practical example, I looked a bit deeper into the impact of vertex shader exports on the cost of a drawcall and wrote another blog post with some observations interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/t...