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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
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"Thunderbirds are go!"

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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...

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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.

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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...

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Re-upping for Reasons. Paper: "Although the techniques proposed in this article focus on the one-dimensional problem, their principles can be easily extended to multiple dimensions." Me, an idiot, three weeks later:

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Today's project with The Boy: External power and trigger for motorized nerf gun knockoff. Good fun!

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OH: "I tend to be very self-defecating."

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If I had an online store that sold text editors, I would totally name it Vim Vendors.

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Today's find: Weston Model 627 Cine Exposure Meter (Type 1), 1933. Still working!

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

mark e.smith reads lovecraft's the colour out of space for christmas youtu.be/4ZZ8m8I2kE4?...

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

Misread "Kaplansky density theorem" as "Kaplansky dentistry theorem" and I for a second there I was truly intrigued.

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He's making a man He's checking fresh graves He'll soon learn remorse If that dude misbehaves Frankenstein has hubristic flaws

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On behalf of the '25 paper chairs: 🎉 The #HPG2025 Call for Papers is LIVE! Join us in beautiful Copenhagen, June 23-25, for cutting-edge discussions on graphics hardware and software. Co-located with #EGSR2025, it's the perfect stage for your research. 👉 highperformancegraphics.org/2025/program...

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If you’re in the field of computing, I highly recommend spending time watching THE MOTHER OF ALL DEMOS. Key things to notice: • Nothing that enables the demo existed. Not even interrupt paths on the CPU. • To this day, the things demonstrated there don’t exist as products or computing concepts.

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The Origins of the Krakatoa point renderer. Developed in a few days back in 2004, Krakatoa and its descents went on to be used on Avatar, Superman Returns, Harry Potter, Transforms and a ton of other high profile Hollywood films. benhouston3d.com/blog/the-ori... #vfx #bts

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Finding Product Market Fit in a VFX Studio, and Almost Winning a SciTech Oscar: The story behind the creation of the Deadline render manager. benhouston3d.com/blog/buildin...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, y'all! 👋 I'm Tom (or Tomasz if you enjoy Hungarian Notation or Klingon) I cause graphics devices to become lost, and generate all sorts of technical, design & artistic debt in Tiny Glade, together with @anopara.bsky.social, @lydmartin.bsky.social & @odaodaoda.bsky.social

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GPU Zen 3 is out! I want to draw attention to the 96(!) page article I was a small part of detailing all the work from tooth-to-tail we put into making ray tracing a reality in Cyberpunk 2077. It is exhaustive and should be a reference for anyone looking to make RTX a reality in their own engines.

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Today's find: Supreme Instruments B-400 Diagnometer tube tester (~1929)

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