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rtryan98.bsky.social @rtryan98.bsky.social · 4d

After quite a bit of work, I am finally done with the first blog post about ocean rendering! You can find it here: rtryan98.github.io/2025/10/04/o...

I've also decided to create a video to showcase the ocean simulation in motion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OXm...

Ocean Rendering, Part 1 - Simulation · Robert Ryan - Graphics Programmer

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Arseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · 8d

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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mjp @mjp123.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code.

(And yes it's really been 10 years 👴).

therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...

Ten Years of D3D12

For those of us that have been using it from the start, it can be hard to believe that Direct3D 12 has been around for nearly ten years now. Windows 10 was released on July 29th 2015, and D3D12 has be...

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · Sep 3

I miss your post mortems! They’re the reason I started taking part in LD!

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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · Aug 29

New blog post discussing a few approaches to bottleneck reduction and GPU utilisation and performance increase interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/g...

GPU utilisation and performance improvements

Drill deep into a GPU’s architecture and at its heart you will find a large number of SIMD units whose purpose is to read data, perform some vector or scalar ALU (VALU or SALU) operation on i…

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idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social · Aug 26

Slides from my SIGGRAPH 2025 and CEDEC 2025 talks “Fast as Hell: idTech 8 Global Illumination”, are now publicly available through the Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course. Lecture recordings will be available soon on the course's YouTube channel.

ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · Aug 26

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course slides for "Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination” talk by @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social from @idsoftware.bsky.social
are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

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Anton Schreiner @aschrein.bsky.social · Aug 22

New short post:
"Thinking about convolutions for graphics"
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Thinking about convolutions for graphics

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JCGT announcements @jcgt-announce.bsky.social · Aug 22

Jakub Bokšanský and Daniel Meister: Neural Visibility Cache for Real-Time Light Sampling

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rtryan98.bsky.social @rtryan98.bsky.social · Aug 21

For quite a while I've been working on a Fast Fourier Transform based ocean simulation in my render engine.
Whilst there is still a lot to work on, I'm excited to see the result once I've added IBL to this renderer.

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · Aug 9

Weapons was such a great movie. My favourite of this year so far. Go see it with the biggest audience possible. It’s a total blast!

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · Aug 7

Yeaaaah…there is a lot of bias in the deferred path that I haven’t gotten around to fixing. I just wanted to get it working again first haha. But I am hoping to improve on it later on and bring it closer to ground truth.

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · Aug 7

It’s been on-hold for a while. Had difficulties remastering the textures since you really need PBR materials to make it shine (no pun intended hehe). Might get back to it at some point though!

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AMD GPUOpen @gpuopen.bsky.social · Aug 7

AMD FSR Redstone is our upcoming suite of ML-powered AMD #FidelityFX neural rendering technologies.

🟥 Get your game Redstone ready with #FSR 3.1.4 🟥

We've also updated our #UnrealEngine FSR 3 & Radeon Anti-Lag 2 plugins to support UE 5.6.

Details ➡️ gpuopen.com/learn/amd-fs...

Get ready for FSR Redstone with AMD FSR 3.1.4 and our new UE 5.6 plugin - AMD GPUOpen

Integrate AMD FSR 3.1.4 to get ready for FSR Redstone, updated Unreal Engine 5.6 plugin now available.

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · Aug 7

Back in 2021 I released a Vulkan sample that demonstrated adding ray-tracing to a traditional game render pipeline. Since then the code has rotted away and stopped working. So this week I finally resurrected it! Hope it will keep being a learning resource for beginners.

github.com/diharaw/hybr...

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · Aug 1

Do you like heavy riffs? Do you like Hatsune Miku? Boy, do I have the song for you by @bitbreaker.bsky.social !

youtu.be/_VYsCybhn0s?...

God Only Knows (feat. Kasane Teto)

YouTube video by [bitbreaker]

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · Jul 25

My favourite is probably “It’s behind you Tyronne, whenever you reverse things come from behind you” 😂

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · Jul 24

“Oh dogs! Sure…I like dags”

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · Jul 20

That’s actually a really solid build, especially the CPU 😉

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · Jul 20

That’s very sweet of you, must’ve been fun! I’m surprised you could build a PC for that much at all these days.

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AMD GPUOpen @gpuopen.bsky.social · Jun 19

We've just released the latest #FSR 3.1.4 in our updated plugin for #UnrealEngine 5, ready to drop into your game! 🎮

🔥 Easily get your game ready for FSR 4
🔥 New upscaler CVars and multiple bug fixes

📥 Download now! gpuopen.com/learn/ue-fsr...

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3.1.4 Unreal Engine plugin guide

Download the AMD FSR 3.1.1 plugin for Unreal Engine, and learn how to install and use it.

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Vlad Erium 🇯🇵 @shamanix.bsky.social · Jun 19

Histogram Stratification for Spatio-Temporal Reservoir Sampling

Corentin Salaün, Martin Bálint, Laurent Belcour, Eric Heitz, Gurprit Singh and Karol Myszkowski

(Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany & Intel, France)

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Anton Schreiner @aschrein.bsky.social · Jun 18

Sharing this job opportunity at my team: development and productization of ML+Graphics technologies for games. EU remote. careers.amd.com/careers-home...

GPU Software Development Engineer in Warsaw, Poland | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

AMD | Careers Home is hiring a GPU Software Development Engineer in Warsaw, Poland. Review all of the job details and apply today!

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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · May 27

New blog post discussing Async Compute, various experiments with pairings and task overlapping and performance impact. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/a...

Async compute all the things

GPUs make work parallelism very easy by design: each drawcall/dispatch shader instruction operates on batches of vertices, pixels, threads in general at the same time automatically. On the other ha…

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Adam Sawicki @asawicki.info · May 28

I just published my new article:
The Secrets of Floating-Point Numbers
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The Secrets of Floating-Point Numbers

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Dihara Wijetunga @diharaw94.bsky.social · May 15

Congratulations! Excited to start playing this!

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