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Master swimmer, mountain climber, and stand up coder. I work on texture processing tools at Ludicon. Formerly at Roblox, Thekla (The Witness), NVIDIA, OddWorld, Relic, Crytek.
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I wrote about the journey to make GPU texture compression work everywhere, including some history on how I got into this field. Check it out! www.ludicon.com/castano/blog...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

For the past few months, I've been quietly working on a new math typesetting application called Radical Pie. I've been talking about doing this for years, and now it's finally happening. Beta expected in a couple months. I'll be posting a lot more... radicalpie.com

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I’m excited to see Spark is finally integrated in the HypeHype engine. It will be enabled in production tomorrow. So far everything has been working smoothly. Let’s hope it stays that way! bird.makeup/users/sebaal...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 21 days ago • 808 comments

Ya podéis disfrutar de esta carta de amor a Commandos y La Abadía del Crimen. Nacida en Teruel, y rematada a lo largo de toda la geografía española, el desarrollo más largo y ambicioso del estudio hasta la fecha ¡Que lo disfrutéis!

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Of the “what went wrong with the election” posts, this was pretty good: www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-mo...

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

submitted 34 days ago • 2387 comments

#TheStoneOfMadness is around the corner! It is so close that you can already pre-order it with a 10% discount!!! Visit stoneofmadnessgame.com for more info. 😉

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

“Specialization constants can be used in Vulkan to set the dimensions at pipeline creation time” From: bsky.app/profile/kost... Has anyone had any success with that? Last time I tried I run into all sort of compiler issues.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote a blog post about my development process and the tools I’ve built to develop the Spark codecs: ludicon.com/castano/blog...

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Finally wrote a blog article about the use of USN journals in Asset Cooker! It even mentions Dark Souls. danglingpointers.com/post/asset-c...

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

Our tech artist did a test scene with our forthcoming virtual texturing system. This scene uses just three 256x256 PBR materials (3 textures each). Total memory consumption (ASTC4x4/BC7) = 0.56MB Total storage cost (2bpp AVIF) = 144KB www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjlE...

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

Regarding the propriety of e.g. not condemning CEO murder, I remind you of this. cohost.org/hystericempr...

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

If you've never seen Slug and you care about fast ultra-high-quality font and vector graphics rendering on the GPU, then check out the demo that can be downloaded from our website: sluglibrary.com

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

I'm excited to announce that Spark⚡ 1.0 is finally out! ludicon.com/spark/ Spark is the culmination of over a year of dedicated research and development, built upon a solid foundation of years of experience in GPU compression technology. What sets Spark apart?

submitted 386 days ago • 1 comment