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RGB rendering is founded on lies and perpetuated by misconceptions about the practicality of spectral rendering. My new blog post series describes a spectral GPU path tracer. Part 1 focuses on how to make it work with existing RGB assets.
momentsingraphics.de/SpectralRend...

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might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

a man standing on a stage with the words ladies and gentlemen written on the screen ALT: a man standing on a stage with the words ladies and gentlemen written on the screen

Just heard Jeru the Damaja is also guesting at tonight's Pharcyde/Souls of Mischief show at the Kentish Town Forum. 90s hiphop me can't wait...

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

Collaborated with Milkdrop to make a pack of 800 audio-reactive shaders.
Designed for VJs and visual artists. Anybody can use them with the open-source XorPlayer and Spout.
They work without audio too, great as moving backgrounds! Download:
milkdrop3.com/XorDev
Have fun!

It still feels like you’re a magician!

My new blog post is out! In this new post I go into detail in how I implemented my D3D12/Vulkan/Metal RHI in my game engine Kaleidoscope. Link in replies!

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

signs of life on my attempt at shooting rays from a light source to eventually hit a film plane... it's spectral but the only materials so far are a perfectly mirrored mesh with slightly grey albedo, laid out in blender... need to add in refraction with ior dependence, and this will be very cool

If you are in the PNW and freaking about all the recent announcements and feeling like there is nothing you can do?

Donate to local legal resources for immigrants. The legal defense needs to move quickly in these cases before the defendants are moved. No Actblue!

@nwirp.bsky.social

www.nwirp.org

"Quasar 2"
for(float i,z,d,s;i++<7e1;o+=vec4(z,2,s,1)/s/d)
{vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a;p.z+=9.;a=mix(dot(a-=.57,p)*a,p,cos(s-=t))-sin(s)*cross(a,p);s=sqrt(length(a.xz-a.y));
for(d=1.;d++<9.;a+=sin(a*d-t).yzx/d);z+=d=length(sin(a)+dot(a,a/a)*.2)*s/2e1;}
o=tanh(o/2e3);

"Quasar"
for(float i,z,d,s;i++<1e2;o+=vec4(z,4,1,1)/d)
{vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a;p.z+=9.;s=length(a=mix(dot(a+=.57,p)*a,p,cos(s-=t))-sin(s)*cross(a,p));
for(d=1.;d++<9.;a+=sin(a*d-t).yzx/d);
z+=d=length(sin(a-t)+.7)*length(p.xy-p.z)/4e1;}
o=tanh(o/2e4);

Some mountains made with the new "stacking pyramids" noise algorithm. They look pretty good, though there are occasional very obvious directional artifacts.

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight.

I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:

emmkid.info

Let’s be friends.

Featuring some of our amazing Art Expo finalists:
• “cat sat on my homework” (Ariana P., Ages 13-14)
• “Neuron” (Maximilian T., Ages 15-16)
• “Fractal art” (David J., Ages 13-14)
Check out desmos.com/art for the full gallery. 🎨

#mathsky #iteachmath #mathart

NEW Volumetric Raymarching
Rendering clouds, fire, smoke, light rays and more with raymarching

mini.gmshaders.com/p/volumetric

Wow! Astronomers are witnessing a Jupiter-like planet forming round a Sun-like star in a system far, far away | BBC Sky at Night Magazine WISPIT 2b is a new planet in the making and, for the first time, it has been caught inside a spectacular multi-ringed disk of dust and gas.

Folks taking a direct picture of a planet 430 light-years away. Crazy science!
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/wispit-2b

I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but

I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated.

If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience.

thank you

A snippet of the blog post, showing a short explanation of derivatives, as well as a graph of a quadratic function, and a graph of its derivative.

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians – Oh My!
New mathy blog post to try and make some scary sounding terms less scary.
blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/d...

Re-entry into the us is definitely an issue right now if you’re anything short of a citizen. A couple of my teammates were dissuaded from attending by this directly

awwww the room clapped for me reintroducing myself as a woman with my new name 🥹❤️

State Department slashes its annual reports on human rights Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.

D.C. mayor defends capital's crime rates after Trump threatens to take over police Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard, but "none of the conditions exist" for the president to take over the city's police.

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard, but "none of the conditions exist" for the president to take over the city's police.

Mohamed Salah asking a cowardly UEFA to name a genocide a genocide.

ICYMI: Lina Khan wrote at @nytopinion.nytimes.com about our campaign's connection to small businesses and why we need to fight the concentrated economic power that too often suffocates them.

It's not just good for a thriving local economy — it's good politics too.

"Deathstar"
for(float i,z,d,f;i++<1e2;o+=vec4(4,6,8.+z,0)/f-min(dFdx(z)*r.y+z,0.)/exp(d*d/.1)){vec3 p=z*(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy)/r.y,c=p;p.z+=8.;c.z*=3.;for(f=1.;f++<9.;c+=sin(c.yzx*f+z+t*.5)/f);z+=min(f=.1+abs(.2*c.y+abs(p.y+.8)),d=max(length(p)-3.,.9-length(p-vec3(-1,1,3))))/7.;}o=tanh(o/2e3);

From 2017 to 2022, a total of 400,181 Uber trips resulted in reports of sexual assault and sexual misconduct in the US, court records show.

The company had only disclosed 12,522 accounts of serious sexual assaults for that same time period.

Physically-based differentiable rendering enables inverse rendering, but handling visibility is hard. Our SIGGRAPH
2025 paper uses quadrics to importance sample silhouette edges--outperforming all existing unidirectional differentiable path tracers.
momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2025...