TinyBVH 1.9.0 is now available on the main branch: github.com/jbikker/tiny... This release has been prepared in collaboration with @wjakob.bsky.social. As of 1.9.0, TinyBVH switched from 'single-header' to 'header-only', because the tiny thing was getting unwieldy... Overview of what's new: (1/3)

GitHub - jbikker/tinybvh: Single-header dependency-free BVH construction and traversal library.

Single-header dependency-free BVH construction and traversal library. - jbikker/tinybvh

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Made a 4-bit register + incrementer entirely in relay logic geometrian.com/projects/ele...

4-Bit Counter

A 4-bit register and incrementer implemented entirely in relay logic!

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An oxygen-filled blimp glides through the yellow haze of the Venusian atmosphere, slowly splitting reducing CO2 into diamond flakes that fall to the surface. This is will eventually terraform the planet. Acrylic on canvas. #space #art by @geometrian.bsky.social geometrian.com/projects/art...

"Testing code that doesn't exist is impossible. It'd be really stupid to dedicate an entire engineering department to trying to do that."

Jake Anbinder@jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession

99% of the challenge with triangle rendering is making it look as BAD as the real world. Aristotelian chuds waxing about the mathematical beauty of the cosmos ain't never seen the untextured gray cube that initializes every stupid Blender scene.

The opinion of any child in a library is worth infinitely more than the opinion of every adult outside of one.

"Wow that's . . . oh wait, it's AI slop." "Beautif- . . . ugh, AI slop." "Ohh interesting . . . ack, AI slop again!" Is there any *REAL* truth or beauty in this world anymore??? Are we so broken we now only search for an *algorithmic derivation* of beauty, ripped from the Past's stolen dreams?

You cannot technically explain yourself out of UX issues, please stop trying. So often I see users bring up UX issues, and programmers then tell them how much work it was to create their product. It doesn't matter how much work it was!! What matters is if your target audience uses it or not.

A modernized Utah Teapot model with interior! You can see/customize/download it, along with historical versions on the official teapot page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/

Tech names should not alias common terminology! Nowadays you'll search like "bread recipe" and it will turn out "bread" is a JS compiler and a "bread recipe" is its config file. The top results will be 2 billion posts on StackOverflow about that. Instead of, you know, an *actual recipe for bread*.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

The western literary canon everyone teaches and studies is terrible: mediocre works dominated by crufty white male authors. This, at the expense of attention to *every other* demographic's work, even amounting to entire literary subgenres. Insane to urge kids to read widely when the canon doesn't.

Rachel Feder@rachelfeder.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

When your level designer is a little too excited to get to the interesting bits that they don't spend enough care on the backrooms:

Shannon of little importance@sdeminimis.bsky.social · last yr.

If I achieve nothing else in life, someday I will teach an architect how the fuck ladders work.

Water is restorative. Water is life. The country rains nourish plants and animals, while the city rains refresh the parched and cleanse pollutants from the air. Meanwhile, the sun is a nuclear fireball that you cannot even look at. It scorches the earth and burns your very skin.

I goddamn love autumn so much I’m so excited for all the colourful leaves and nice temperatures and cosy vibes and rain and

So I made a steampunk multimeter geometrian.com/projects/ele...

The Mohmmeter

A steampunk ohmmeter (and voltmeter) made as a birthday present for my mom.

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From the archives: ever wonder what 1 billion Utah teapots looks like? Boom. 1 gigateapot. (Rendered with my old pathtracer, using a recursive BVH.)

Just to get us started, here's a thing I wrote about how the 3D rasterization pipeline works. Also included is a small (single-file, < 300 lines, including comments) implementation in C++, because code is worth 1000 words. geometrian.com/resources/tu...

The Raster Graphics Pipeline

This is a high-level but still technical survey of the graphics pipeline.

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This is post 0. I am Agatha Mallett (geometrian.com). I mainly do computer graphics, but you may catch me doing everything from designing PCBs to playing fiddle. Hello!

Homepage of Agatha Mallett

geometrian.com: Home page / index of Agatha Mallett, PhD.

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