At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵

My favorite paper from SIGGRAPH this year was "Taming Optimization Variance in Compact Neural Shading Networks" by Bitterli et al; I think this paper will be seen as a really influential paper over the next several years. (1/3) research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/pub...

Taming optimization variance in compact neural shading networks | NVIDIA Real-Time Graphics Research

<p>We present a training algorithm to mitigate optimization instabilities in small neural networks, like those used in real-time neural shading applications. While large, overparameterized models exhi...

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Recently spent some time tidying up my personal website and adding space for a blog. Here's a short post on a DX12 root descriptor alignment quirk I found out about recently. karltechno.com/posts/2026/d...

D3D12 Root Descriptor Alignment: Mind the Gap | Karl Davis

A little known D3D12 descriptor binding alignment pitfall.

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In this thread: three cool rendering papers that DisneyResearch|Studios is publishing at EGSR this week. The authors of these papers are peers that I get the privilege of working closely with frequently, and these are projects I've been excited to watch develop! (1/17)

Very happy to win first place at #RevisionParty2026 for my 4Kb executable graphics entry "Lost Media"! www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... I was lucky enough to go the the party too this year and had a really great time. It was good to hang out with friends old and new.

The recordings from GPC24 are up, including my talk ! This contains much more information than the slides on their own. Enjoy ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHFb... gpuopen.com/presentation...

Occupancy Explained Through the AMD RDNA™ Architecture

YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference

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To start this account off with some appropriately on-brand content: This weekend I discovered the BFI Reuben Film Book library. Naturally I spent half an hour looking for a Jones the cat anecdote in the making of Alien book.