Oh boy new blog post time isaacmarovitz.com/posts/comps/

To 'comp or not to 'comp

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"Unroll a loop, make shader 10x faster", where I accidentally speed up Blender's Kuwahara compositor node on Apple GPUs (and elsewhere). aras-p.info/blog/2026/10...

Make stuff. For the love of all that there is, please just keep making stuff! Doesn't matter if it's bad, good etc. Just *keep* making stuff.

meshoptimizer 1.3 is out! Featuring a new voxel remesher, support for normal generation, several simplification improvements and various optimizations and fixes. GitHub stars and reposts appreciated! meshoptimizer was started 10 years ago; excited for the years to come! github.com/zeux/meshopt...

Hey there friends! Unfortunately, I was among those impacted by layoffs at Heart Machine last week. If you or someone you know is looking for an experienced Unreal Engine Technical Artist, I'm available for full time, part time, or contract opportunities.

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space

EGSR 2026 recordings: www.youtube.com/@egsr2026/pl... (Also linked from the programme: egsr2026.inria.fr/programme/)

We're finally bringing our powerful and user friendly CPU profiler to Linux! The beta version is now publically available, and it's free for 60 days during the open beta, so there's really no excuse not to try it out! Just download, extract, optimize. superluminal.eu/applications...

Superluminal For Linux | Fast Profiling Without The Challenges

No pages of installation guides. No Gigabytes to download and install. Just unzip, run and focus on performance issues. It Just Works™.

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If you've been watching recent engine-related news from the industry and are feeling disenchanted with that trajectory, I'd like to share some non-mainstream projects that might brighten your day:

Really excited that a small chunk of my code is officially in UE5.8 today! I got the pleasure to work on a plugin that maps X-Rite's AxF material model to UE5's Substrate. Feeling extremely grateful to work with such amazing and smart individuals on a daily basis! dev.epicgames.com/documentatio...

Unreal Engine 5.8 Release Notes | Unreal Engine 5.8 Documentation | Epic Developer Community

Overview of new and updated features in Unreal Engine 5.8

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The Cost of AI alextardif.com/AI.html

Ran into a Slang issue today, where non-uniform descriptor indexing was broken for my shaders. Saw that it was due to incorrect SPIR-V. I searched if anyone else had this issue, and I found this GH issue... github.com/shader-slang... Wait, where do I know this author from?!😅@h3r2tic.bsky.social

HELP! #raylib maintainers needed! raylib has grown a lot in the last few years and it's impossible for me to maintain everything; there are some systems that I'd need some help from users with more experience than me! Thanks for your support! ❤️ github.com/raysan5/rayl...

HELP! Maintainers needed! · Issue #5874 · raysan5/raylib

raylib has grown a lot in the last few years and it's impossible for me to maintain all the parts involved in the library, there are specifically some systems that need maintainers to help with: [b...

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New blog post. Just thoughts this time. maxliani.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/p...

Passion for software in the age of AI

We are all using AI, marvelling at it one minute, scowling at it the next, but can we be passionate about something we didn’t make?

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There's a neat short paper from Eurographics this year that evaluates how well microfacet shading models actually predict measured reflectance. The answer is: not nearly as well as one would hope! (1/3) ssteinberg.xyz/2026_surface...

While volk always tracks the latest Vulkan version (I've automated myself), I occasionally tag new numbered versions and today is such a day! New release 1.4.350 features a number of small improvements for various edge cases as long as all the new extensions you may want. github.com/zeux/volk/re...

Even with the debug colours, I'm having trouble with my triplanar mapping.

Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Pallay Punchu, one of the hidden rainbow mountains of Cusco, Peru, where the Andes paint their own colours. This woven tapestry comes from compressed mineral layers-red claystone, yellow limonite, and green chlorite -- that were formed millions of years ago. TT: cuscos_traditions

INTRODUCTION TO SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR GRAPHICS PROGRAMMERS finally done. gpfault.net/posts/sph.html

Behind the pretty frames of #PRAGMATA. Breaking down many tricks and hidden gems of the renderer behind CAPCOM's RE Engine. i hope you enjoy & find this few months worth of freetime article useful... mamoniem.com/behind-the-p...

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

I think this is a great article that puts to words something I've been thinking for a while about LLMs/AI/etc; as tools they clearly can be useful and are here to stay, but the real concern should be the effect it's having on the talent pipeline. (1/5) ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

if giving up and letting AI corpo slop infest an entire creative medium is to "man up" then ig I'll continue to woman down this is a choice, just don't use it, it's literally that easy www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Ex-Blizzard president says gamers need to 'man up' over AI usage in games after Crimson Desert devs issue apology

"AI, in one form or another, will be in every single video game."

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Implementing triplanar mapping, found this amazing article by @bgolus.bsky.social 💖 bgolus.medium.com/normal-mappi...

Normal Mapping for a Triplanar Shader

Triplanar mapping is a great solution for dealing with texturing on complex geometry that is difficult or impossible to use traditional UVs…

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hope this helps @okremiok.bsky.social c:

rémi@okremiok.bsky.social · 8mo ago

sometimes i'm reading a nice pdf about rendering techniques and thinking wow this is so cool then i'm hit with this and it doesn't feel great anymore, this year i'm learning how to read this. ask me again in 10 months what nufᵣkᵣav means

Excited to share that GPU Zen 4: Advanced Rendering Techniques is officially out. This volume features work from some of the most visually impactful projects of recent years, including #AssassinsCreed , #DOOM , #StarwarsOutLaws and NVidia's Zorah. And a killer cover :)

Looking for a basic @vulkan.org #Vulkan descriptor heap example? I've got you covered: github.com/SaschaWillem...

My 2025 talk 'Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game' is now also available in text format, for those who like to read instead of watch: rystorm.com/blog/gyms-zo... And if you haven't seen it yet, there is an all new video too, with bonus material on the history of Zoos!

Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game — Robin-Yann Storm, Product & UX Designer for Tools

Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game

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Looks like this simplifies descriptor sets a lot docs.vulkan.org/features/lat...

Time for more Menu Cube posting 😌

The video: youtu.be/il-TXbn5iMA

I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs)

YouTube video by Mike Turitzin

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