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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!

I wrote something on the state of and outlook for indie dataviz.

"Crisis? What crisis? — Why 2024 was a dead year for indie dataviz — and how we’ll do much better in 2025"

truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis...

#abstractaug #lines

Behind the scenes of the on-set puppeteering on ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ -->

This official featurette showcases the work by creature fx lead puppeteer Tom Wilton, & includes a few befores/afters.

Watch the full featurette at @beforesmag.bsky.social :

beforesandafters.com/2025/08/05/b...

Nirea izotzarekin, mesedez

#abstractphotography #iceabstract #icepatterns #macro_captures #creativenaturephotography #bubbles #ice #abstractphoto #naturephotography #nature #photography #bluesky

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#art

Sulphur plasma - I don't think I've encountered that type of light before en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_...

"Sky Blue LED"

Xenon

Incandescent

Flourescent

Amber LED

Low pressure sodium

my first successful implementation of importance sampling - traced emission spectra taken as input PDFs, compute CDF and then iCDF via projection of 2d points along the graph... upload the result to the GPU as a texture with linear filtering and sample with a random number 0..1

this is HP sodium

Looks awesome - I'm going to have to do a little more infrastructure work to play around with the parameters better

MTV Europe - Highlights (1998)
t.ly/4mI45 #ミュージック #テレビ

Hannes Caspar

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 402 - August 3rd, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

YouTube video by jb 2025 08 04 00 49 59

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4WD... showing more sim agents, exploring parameter space

better blur being used, as well... showing a lot of potential already just seeding with a base set of parameters and applying a small jitter to the parameters of each simulation agent

new physarum impl, moving sim parameters onto the agents and giving them inertia

YouTube video by Game Industry Conference Physically Based Rendering: Putting Pieces Together - Paweł Stolecki || CD Projekt Red ||

Nice introduction (or refresher) to PBR: "Physically Based Rendering: Putting Pieces Together", Game Industry Conference 2024 presentation recording www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwyM...

Nostalghia (1983)
Andrej Tarkovskij

A desert image in blue.

A false color image of a desert.

A false color image of the Nile.

A false color image of an erupting volcano

Landsat images from "Mission to Earth" (1976) (1/3)

Nitsa Rave Flyer (1995)

We've seen how to define and apply Monte Carlo integration, but there's a whole world of techniques for reducing variance.
Part five (thenumb.at/QMC) covers Quasi-Monte Carlo: negative correlation, stratified and adaptive sampling, and low-discrepancy sequences.

'Creative Black Magic' ✨ by Jordi Koalitic with Xiaomi Global takes these moments to the next level. Such innovative photography techniques creating the enchanted.

#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #photography #darkart #surrealphotos #photoinspo #art