Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025

SIGGRAPH 2025 Materials Now Available: Recordings and Resources from Our Events

Recordings for all of the Slang-related sessions at this year's SIGGRAPH are now publicly available on YouTube! Check out the Slang blog for links to recordings and session materials here: shader-slang.org/blog/2025/10...

try.shader-slang.org might suffice if syntax is what you're after? It's Slang rather than HLSL, but Slang's syntax is HLSL-flavored.

Join us this morning for the next Getting Started with Slang webinar. Today, we will be focusing on Modularization. Register and join us!

Getting Started with Slang: Modularization

Want to organize your shader code better *and* achieve faster compile times? Check out the upcoming Slang virtual meetup session on modularization, Tuesday Sept 9, hosted by Yong He! shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...

It's one of the scenes I remember best from Huck Finn, because it seemed really counterintuitive to me as a skirt-wearer!

That tidbit is stolen from Huckleberry Finn, so as far as I'm aware it was written by Mark Twain, and you are therefore correct.

It's almost time for the Slang BoF at #SIGGRAPH2025 ! Join us at 2:30pm PDT today in the Fairmont Waterfront, Waterfront Ballroom.

Join us at the Khronos Group BOF Day at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel

Today, we are having our Birds of a Feather sessions at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel starting at 9:00. Come to hear updates from 3D Commerce, ANARI, glTF, Machine Learning Council, OpenXR, Slang, Vulkan and WebGL!

Get the full schedule on our website: www.khronos.org/events/siggr...
#SIGGRAPH2025

Presentation - SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Schedule

It's almost time for the @khronos.org Fast Forward! I'll be giving a tiny preview of what's on deck for the Wednesday @shader-slang.bsky.social BoF. East Building, room 15, starting at 10am.

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

The Introduction to Slang lab at #SIGGRAPH2025 is standing room only-- but if you're not able to get in, you can still take a look at the materials, including our interactive examples, linked from our SIGGRAPH landing page: shader-slang.org/landing/sigg...

Slang at SIGGRAPH 2025

I'm headed to SIGGRAPH later today! A quick summary of where you can find Slang, and what's in our latest release, here on the Slang devblog: shader-slang.org/blog/2025/08...

A Google Gemini prompt and response reading: User: I am attending SIGGRAPH next week for professional reasons. I will be packing a button-down sleeveless shirt printed with Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Should I wear this shirt: A. When assisting with a computer lab B. When presenting at a Fast Forward session C. When leading a Birds of a Feather session D. When meeting with professional associates E. All of the above Gemini: None of the above. You should not wear a shirt printed with Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights at SIGGRAPH, regardless of the setting.

Tired: AI is untrustworthy because it can't figure out how many B's are in "blueberry"

Wired: AI is untrustworthy because it does not appreciate my darkly whimsical sartorial sense.

I'm also going to stick my head into some of the interesting stuff going on with Gaussian splatting standards as much as I can (as an attendee, not a speaker).

If you want to track me down and pick my brain about Slang, Gaussian splatting, neural shading, or standardization, give me a ping! (6/6)

Presentation - SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Schedule

I'll also be speaking briefly at the Khronos Fast Forward. (5/6)

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

Presentation - SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Schedule

An Introduction to Neural Shading

Slang will feature heavily in this course that covers neural shading, all the way from fundamentals to the nitty-gritty of hardware acceleration and deployment. (4/6)

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

Presentation - SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Schedule

The Slang Birds of a Feather, where I'll be talking about what the Slang community has been up to, and we'll have presentations from teams working with Slang with insights to share -- plus, Yong He will talk about Slang's future and roadmap. (3/6)

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

Presentation - SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Schedule

Hands-on Class: Introduction to Slang
Sunday, 10 August 2025
4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT

This session will get you writing Slang shaders within the first few minutes! (2/6)

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

SIGGRAPH is almost here, and there's going to be a Heckin Lot o' Slang there. We'll put up a full post on the devblog with more info, but if you're already building your schedule, here's some stuff to earmark! (1/6)

A very rudimentary snowman, rendered with OpenGL 1.0, on a transparent red block, against a background of a densely repeating set of stones.

BEHOLD MY DERPY LIL SON! (He's old enough to drink.)

If ever you feel like your code is Real Dumb and you'll never get into graphics, please take a look at my very first OpenGL project, which I recently unearthed on an old drive. It is indeed Real Dumb, and yet I persisted. You can too!

github.com/elcuppietan/...

Fixed!

Ah, looks like I'm having trouble with the "featured" label in our content management software. Thank you for the heads up! I'll fix that ASAP.

Neural Graphics: Speeding It Up with Wave Intrinsics

Been a little while since the last one, but I'm back with installment number three in my neural graphics intro series. This one covers using wave intrinsics to get a speed boost-- a traditional compute technique that's just as useful in the neutral graphics space.

shader-slang.org/blog/2025/07...

Neural Graphics: Speeding It Up with Wave Intrinsics

Been a little while since the last one, but I'm back with installment number three in my neural graphics intro series. This one covers using wave intrinsics to get a speed boost-- a traditional compute technique that's just as useful in the neutral graphics space.

shader-slang.org/blog/2025/07...

Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141 After years in development, we will be releasing WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141! WebGPU gives web content a modern interface to the user’s graphics processor, enabling high-performance comp…

Mozilla put out a blog post about shipping WebGPU in Firefox 141. And with Safari '26 shipping it later this fall, the API will be available ~everywhere!

Great to see WebGPU support reaching more people!

mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/s...

Me: Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational monitor setup!

@meggsomatic.tv : ...did you put your 43 inch monitor in *portrait mode*?

Me: 🤗

Apocalypse Now. (Permission slips were required.)

This session is TOMORROW! Please join us for a "getting started" session on the Slang reflection API! Registration info at this link.

(You can also replace Slang's default mathematical op derivatives with your own if you prefer a different approach!)

- For mathematical ops that are prone to numeric instability or are discontinuous, Slang takes some standard approaches to reducing failure cases (e.g. sign function for abs(), epsilon protection for division)