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light cluster assignment debug view in blender. this scene is just a couple thousand tris and 3 separate materials, but blender's viewport really doesn't seem to like it. maybe it's because each cluster is its own object?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

turns out spirv-cross finally has mesh shader support for metal!! merged in late October last year.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

got jumpscared today from seeing a youtube video with "directx 12" in the title that was posted 9 years ago.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

nobody show this page to sam altman or he's gonna start raising money to build one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrios...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

me and who

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

six facts about address space layout randomizaton on windows cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

sneak peek of new blog post

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

we should bring back the old term "supervisor program". "os" has become a shorthand for "that blob of code that manages my computer", and thus it's thought-limiting. yeah, your os kernel is a "supervisor", but so is virtualbox, and so is chrome. they just "supervise" different things.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

find me on matrix: `@nicebyte:matrix.org`

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

do not take life advice from people on the internet

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

turns out that this is the real Bui Tuong Phong. the photograph you might have seen is actually a vietnamese writer that happens to share the name Phong. more fascinating details here: arxiv.org/html/2404.14...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

dilemma: having shadow cascades in separate array slices makes them more convenient to access, and allows for a future optimization where they can be rendered in 1 pass using the slices as multiple attachments. on the other hand, packing them into an atlas would help to reduce wasted space. 🤔

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

book: "Suez to Singapore", Cecil Brown, published 1942. found in a vintage goods shop. the first page stuck with me. time is a flat circle.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

hlsl quirk i learned recently: branches on conditions dependent on constants declared as simply `const` will not get pruned (compiler will generate code for both branches). you have to declare the constants as `static const` for the "false" branch to get eliminated.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

blending across cascades. csm turned out easier than i had imagined but i had all the scaffolding ready to go. also, a lot of shadowmap texels end up wasted because i keep each cascade in its own texture slice. need to tile them better to reuse wasted texels from other cascades.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

tried this cute shortcut for selecting cascades. not sure if its any good in practice, though i can see on rdna2 it generates much less instructions compared to a for loop which makes me like it automatically. codegen is equivalent to unrolling the loop manually, but this looks nicer and shorter.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

video games were a zero interest rate phenomenon /s

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments