Craig Kolb
@craigkolb.net
Rendering research @ NVIDIA by day, computational astrophotography by night. ex-Pixar, Intel, startups, Stanford, Princeton. "Literally the worst Dad EVER!!!11!”
https://github.com/cek
https://github.com/cek
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I got to do an explainer of neural shading-- with my NVIDIA hat on this time, and still full of Slang goodness! It's posted over at the NVIDIA developer blog: developer.nvidia.com/blog/how-to-...
How to Get Started with Neural Shading for Your Game or Application | NVIDIA Technical Blog
For the past 25 years, real-time rendering has been driven by continuous hardware improvements. The goal has always been to create the highest fidelity image possible within 16 milliseconds.
developer.nvidia.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I got to do an explainer of neural shading-- with my NVIDIA hat on this time, and still full of Slang goodness! It's posted over at the NVIDIA developer blog: developer.nvidia.com/blog/how-to-...
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Really think this Shtetl Optimized piece by Harvey Lederman is worth reading: scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
Not sure it's an optimistic future, but it is a future that is still joyful
Not sure it's an optimistic future, but it is a future that is still joyful
ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life: Guest Post by Harvey Lederman
Scott Aaronson’s Brief Foreword: Harvey Lederman is a distinguished analytic philosopher who moved from Princeton to UT Austin a few years ago. Since his arrival, he’s become one of my …
scottaaronson.blog
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Really think this Shtetl Optimized piece by Harvey Lederman is worth reading: scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
Not sure it's an optimistic future, but it is a future that is still joyful
Not sure it's an optimistic future, but it is a future that is still joyful
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Today we released a new demo showcasing RTX Mega Geometry, ReSTIR PT, and DLSS all running together in our NvRTX branch of UE 5.6.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qyo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qyo...
Bonsai Diorama Demo | NVIDIA RTX Unreal Engine 5.6.1
YouTube video by NVIDIA Game Developer
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Today we released a new demo showcasing RTX Mega Geometry, ReSTIR PT, and DLSS all running together in our NvRTX branch of UE 5.6.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qyo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qyo...
Subtly downgrade a band
They Are Unlikely To Be Giants
They Are Unlikely To Be Giants
Subtly downgrade a band
Yeah, probably, we'll see.
Yeah, probably, we'll see.
Subtly downgrade a band
Matchbook 17
Matchbook 17
September 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Subtly downgrade a band
They Are Unlikely To Be Giants
They Are Unlikely To Be Giants
My Dad played "An Evening Wasted With" for me when I was a very wee kiddo, and I remember being pleasantly shocked that grownups were allowed to be hilariously and cleverly snarky and sarcastic. A truly formative moment. He had a great run, but still: Damnit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My Dad played "An Evening Wasted With" for me when I was a very wee kiddo, and I remember being pleasantly shocked that grownups were allowed to be hilariously and cleverly snarky and sarcastic. A truly formative moment. He had a great run, but still: Damnit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Today in "why didn't anybody tell me about this a decade ago": github.com/chrisant996/...
GitHub - chrisant996/clink: Bash's powerful command line editing in cmd.exe
Bash's powerful command line editing in cmd.exe. Contribute to chrisant996/clink development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Today in "why didn't anybody tell me about this a decade ago": github.com/chrisant996/...
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When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)
July 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)
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Join us next week for the next installment of Getting Started with Slang! This webinar will be on the Reflections API.
When: July 8th at 8:00am PDT
Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
#Slang #Reflections #API
When: July 8th at 8:00am PDT
Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
#Slang #Reflections #API
Getting Started with Slang: Reflections API
shader-slang.org
July 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Join us next week for the next installment of Getting Started with Slang! This webinar will be on the Reflections API.
When: July 8th at 8:00am PDT
Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
#Slang #Reflections #API
When: July 8th at 8:00am PDT
Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
#Slang #Reflections #API
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If you’re quick, there’s a rare chance to see the only known photographs of the early computing pioneer, Ada Lovelace, as they will go on display in London for a few days.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see...
See the only known photos of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace at Bonhams London
If you’re quick, there’s a rare chance to see the only known photographs of the early computing pioneer, Ada Lovelace, as they will go on display in London for a few days.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
June 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If you’re quick, there’s a rare chance to see the only known photographs of the early computing pioneer, Ada Lovelace, as they will go on display in London for a few days.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see...
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Finally finished adding @shader-slang.bsky.social shaders to all my (almost 100) @vulkan.org open source samples and wrote a bit about it here:
www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/06...
tl;dr: I very much enjoyed this :)
www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/06...
tl;dr: I very much enjoyed this :)
Shaders for Vulkan samples now also available in slang
A new shading language enters the ring Unlike other 3D graphics apis, Vulkan did decouple human readable shaders from the api using SPIR-V as an intermediate representation. This makes it possible to ...
www.saschawillems.de
June 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Finally finished adding @shader-slang.bsky.social shaders to all my (almost 100) @vulkan.org open source samples and wrote a bit about it here:
www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/06...
tl;dr: I very much enjoyed this :)
www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/06...
tl;dr: I very much enjoyed this :)
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The founder of Penn's graphics program, Prof. Norm Badler, passed away last week. Norm was one of the early pioneers of CG, and over the past 50 years his students- thousands across PhD, Masters, and undergrad- have gone on to build much of today's CG field and industry. (1/5)
May 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The founder of Penn's graphics program, Prof. Norm Badler, passed away last week. Norm was one of the early pioneers of CG, and over the past 50 years his students- thousands across PhD, Masters, and undergrad- have gone on to build much of today's CG field and industry. (1/5)
Fun project from nmrobots.com. All it needs now is a camera, a beefier processor, and a suitable host.
May 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Fun project from nmrobots.com. All it needs now is a camera, a beefier processor, and a suitable host.
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Looking to get started with Slang and neural graphics, but not sure where to start? We're hosting a virtual meetup where I'll do a walkthrough from the ground up! Join me May 20!
shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
Getting Started with Slang: Draw Your First Splat
shader-slang.org
May 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Looking to get started with Slang and neural graphics, but not sure where to start? We're hosting a virtual meetup where I'll do a walkthrough from the ground up! Join me May 20!
shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
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The second in my series on Gaussian splatting in Slang has been posted! Here, I walk through how to go from the simplistic & slow implementation in my last GS example to something much speedier. (Although I may still have some more tricks up my sleeves there...)
shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04...
shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04...
Neural Graphics: From First Principles to Performance
shader-slang.org
April 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The second in my series on Gaussian splatting in Slang has been posted! Here, I walk through how to go from the simplistic & slow implementation in my last GS example to something much speedier. (Although I may still have some more tricks up my sleeves there...)
shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04...
shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04...
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Really enjoying this old documentary on computer graphics youtu.be/W8-54-9J9ns
1981: How COMPUTER GRAPHICS Will Change the World | Horizon | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
April 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Really enjoying this old documentary on computer graphics youtu.be/W8-54-9J9ns
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Our #GDC25 talk "Path Tracing Nanite in NVIDIA Zorah" is now online, free to watch for all: www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-dem...
Path Tracing Nanite in NVIDIA Zorah | Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2025 | NVIDIA On-Demand
In this session, we will discuss the cutting-edge algorithms and techniques behind NVIDIA's Zorah Blackwell launch demo
www.nvidia.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Our #GDC25 talk "Path Tracing Nanite in NVIDIA Zorah" is now online, free to watch for all: www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-dem...
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To anyone at GDC interested in neural rendering/texture compression:
Alexey Panteleev is speaking tomorrow at 9:30am on how the new Cooperative Vector functionality in HLSL was used to implement the RTXNTC library. Start your week off strong!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/adva...
Alexey Panteleev is speaking tomorrow at 9:30am on how the new Cooperative Vector functionality in HLSL was used to implement the RTXNTC library. Start your week off strong!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/adva...
schedule.gdconf.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
To anyone at GDC interested in neural rendering/texture compression:
Alexey Panteleev is speaking tomorrow at 9:30am on how the new Cooperative Vector functionality in HLSL was used to implement the RTXNTC library. Start your week off strong!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/adva...
Alexey Panteleev is speaking tomorrow at 9:30am on how the new Cooperative Vector functionality in HLSL was used to implement the RTXNTC library. Start your week off strong!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/adva...
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Reposted by Craig Kolb
For those interested:
Alexey Panteleev will be giving a presentation about his work on Neural Texture Compression at Vulcanized 2025 on Thursday, February 13th at 9:30.
www.vulkan.org/events/vulka...
Alexey Panteleev will be giving a presentation about his work on Neural Texture Compression at Vulcanized 2025 on Thursday, February 13th at 9:30.
www.vulkan.org/events/vulka...
February 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
For those interested:
Alexey Panteleev will be giving a presentation about his work on Neural Texture Compression at Vulcanized 2025 on Thursday, February 13th at 9:30.
www.vulkan.org/events/vulka...
Alexey Panteleev will be giving a presentation about his work on Neural Texture Compression at Vulcanized 2025 on Thursday, February 13th at 9:30.
www.vulkan.org/events/vulka...
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I'm very proud to announce that today NVIDIA has released our first public SDK for Neural Texture Compression (NTC)!
github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/R...
NTC exploits neural techniques to achieve 12-24x compression of PBR material textures with quality comparable or better than BC formats.
github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/R...
NTC exploits neural techniques to achieve 12-24x compression of PBR material textures with quality comparable or better than BC formats.
GitHub - NVIDIA-RTX/RTXNTC: NVIDIA Neural Texture Compression SDK
NVIDIA Neural Texture Compression SDK. Contribute to NVIDIA-RTX/RTXNTC development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm very proud to announce that today NVIDIA has released our first public SDK for Neural Texture Compression (NTC)!
github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/R...
NTC exploits neural techniques to achieve 12-24x compression of PBR material textures with quality comparable or better than BC formats.
github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/R...
NTC exploits neural techniques to achieve 12-24x compression of PBR material textures with quality comparable or better than BC formats.
Reposted by Craig Kolb
Thanks to a lot of colleagues' great work, happy to share Vulkan samples for RTX Mega Geometry. They should run on all RTX GPUs using today's new drivers
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
GitHub - nvpro-samples/vk_animated_clusters: Sample that uses VK_NV_cluster_acceleration_structure to animate meshes for ray tracing
Sample that uses VK_NV_cluster_acceleration_structure to animate meshes for ray tracing - nvpro-samples/vk_animated_clusters
github.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thanks to a lot of colleagues' great work, happy to share Vulkan samples for RTX Mega Geometry. They should run on all RTX GPUs using today's new drivers
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...
github.com/nvpro-sample...