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I am a graphics engineer working at Tokyo, in Japan. All opinion are my own. ぽえ~ん。
明日健康診断なんだよなー。やだなー。
December 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
昔のスーツが入らない体形になってしまったので、急遽買った。年末セールでちょっと安くなって助かったよ。
December 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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RenderDoc v1.42 is now available! It adds limited support for shader debugging on OpenGL. Note that likely a minority of shaders and not all drivers will be supported.

Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
github.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Our #SIGGRAPHAsia 2025 paper "Sample Space Partitioning and Spatiotemporal Resampling for Specular Manifold Sampling" improves #realtime #caustics rendering.
Project Page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro...

@daqilin.bsky.social @tizian.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...

I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: youtu.be/2K-rwy4aMmU?...
RAY TRACING THE WORLD OF ASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS (Advances in Real-Time Rendering SIGGRAPH 2025)
YouTube video by SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Strand-Based Hair And Fur Rendering In Indiana Jones and The Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from MachineGames is now online: youtu.be/jSE1XXBEK-w
SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances: STRAND-BASED HAIR AND FUR RENDERING IN INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE
YouTube video by SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Stochastic Tile-Based Lighting in HypeHype" by Jarkko Lempiäinen from HypeHype is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O44...
SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances: STOCHASTIC TILE-BASED LIGHTING IN HYPEHYPE
YouTube video by SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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4Gamer 🔗https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999901/20251113036/
Steam向け新ハードウェア「Steam Machine」のアナウンスの影で色めきだつ。謎の新作ゲームは「Half-Life 3」の可能性あり!?

10年前に第1世代「Steam Machine」が登場したときも「Half-Life 3」がリリースされるといううわさがあったが,果たして今回は……
Steam向け新ハードウェア「Steam Machine」のアナウンスの影で色めきだつ。謎の新作ゲームは「Half-Life 3」の可能性あり!?
www.4gamer.net
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 416 - November 9th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
マップチップ描画クラスを作った。明日は素材作成やる。
October 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorial V2.0 Released

Complete rewrite with Vulkan 1.4 support, VMA, Slang. Step-by-step tutorial from raster to ray tracing.
15+ specialized tutorials.
Get started: github.com/nvpro-sample...
#Vulkan #RayTracing #GraphicsProgramming
GitHub - nvpro-samples/vk_raytracing_tutorial_KHR at v2
Ray tracing examples and tutorials using VK_KHR_ray_tracing - GitHub - nvpro-samples/vk_raytracing_tutorial_KHR at v2
github.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Dear ImGui 1.92.3 released!
github.com/ocornut/imgu...
- InputTextMultiline() word-wrapping.
- Misc scaling/DPI helpers fixes on backends for Linux X11/Wayland/OSX.
- 20+ other fixes or small additions (fonts, navigation, inputtext, debug tools, etc.
September 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
徐々に2dゲーム作る準備できてきた。
September 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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TinyBVH 1.6.7 is now available on the main branch. Changes:
* TinyBVH now only needs C++11 (tiny_ocl.h needs C++17)
* Full-sweep SAH builder is now threaded
* Fix for crash in BuildAVX
Still zero dependencies. :)
And: The repo reached 1k stars!
Link: github.com/jbikker/tiny...
GitHub - jbikker/tinybvh: Single-header dependency-free BVH construction and traversal library.
Single-header dependency-free BVH construction and traversal library. - jbikker/tinybvh
github.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances talks slides sharing: "Strand-based hair and fur rendering in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from Machine games is now online advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
August 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides for "Stochastic Tile-Based Lighting in HypeHype" by Jarkko Lempiäinen are now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
August 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides for "Real-Time Subsurface Scattering via Hybrid ReSTIR-Path-Tracing and Diffusion” talk by Tanki Zhang from NVIDIA are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
August 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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#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....
August 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course slides for "MegaLights: Stochastic Direct Lighting in Unreal Engine 5” talk by @knarkowicz.bsky.social and @tiagocostav.bsky.social from Epic Games are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
August 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides online: "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
August 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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meshoptimizer v0.25 is out! Featuring new simplification function that optimizes positions and attributes for appearance, experimental permissive mode to simplify faceted regions with selective seam preservation, regularization option for improved tessellation quality and deformation, multiple ...
August 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow:
blog.selfshadow.com/publications...
SIGGRAPH 2025 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
blog.selfshadow.com
August 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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An Introduction to Neural Shading, Siggraph 2025 course presentation slides dl.acm.org/doi/suppl/10... and materials github.com/shader-slang...
dl.acm.org
August 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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It's time to share the program for the 2025 Advances in Real-time Rendering in Games.

Check out all the details here: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

and, of course, come attend the course live on Tuesday August 12 at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver!
August 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM