...and of course highly specialized fancy UI visualization in home computer emulator debugging UIs, like here in my Bombjack emulator ;) (I would really love to see regular emulators having a powerful plugin interface for adding Dear ImGui visualizations)

really interesting analysis of the raspberry pi PIO coprocessor from a hw designer perspective; bunnie reimplements it in FPGA to learn, decides hes curious about a more RISC approcah to the same problem space, and... implements that. awesome work & writeup. www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2026/bi...

used to feel guilty that I often re-made the 'same' projects over and over again through my career. the set changed slowly, but, texture mappers, sdf raymarchers, audio engines, ugc 'engines', in-memory databases... but I no longer feel guilt: only fascination that they end up different every time!

The talk I presented at #SIGGRAPH2026 is now available on YouTube, for anyone who couldn’t attend or would like to revisit it :) youtu.be/OFJYBUArVPc?...

Dual Contouring of Signed Distance Data - SIGGRAPH 2026 [Technical paper presentation]

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Xiana Carrera@xianacarrera.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/6 Excited to share our #SIGGRAPH2026 paper, Dual Contouring of Signed Distance Data! We propose a new method for reconstructing sharp meshes from discrete samples of signed distance functions (SDFs) that does not require gradients. Project page: gatc.cs.columbia.edu/projects/dua...

eric - my latest toy has meandered from code editor to arrangement ui back to code again. the fun thing is theres no synth engine - its just raw functions called at audio rate all the way down. the clicks in this bad vid are because its my laptop's mic recording its own speakers, as I press keys

its never gonna rain in london again is it. rip

A new tapestry

today's alex-mega-gamedev-tip: one of my favourite passtimes is getting deep into design thoughts on whatever im working on; on walks, in the shower. but dont let the thinking get more than about 1 day ahead of the process of actually making it. any more, and you're probably wasting your time... 🧵

went to a screen printing class with the kids and tried to make a tote bag with a bundle of patch cables but then i accidentally screened his face on side ways!!! argh. roll lil buddy, roll

oh and I opensourced the 3 plinky 1U eurorack modules - bib (reverb) blueberry (sequencer) and buzzy (swarm oscillator) - both hardware and software. yay. github.com/plinkysynth/...

GitHub - plinkysynth/buddies_public: open source release for bib, blueberry and buzzrito 1U eurorack modules by plinky synth and crey emporium

open source release for bib, blueberry and buzzrito 1U eurorack modules by plinky synth and crey emporium - plinkysynth/buddies_public

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barely a week or two after plinky12's launch, we already have our first opensource 'custom panel' - a granular delay/looper based on the Ambiotica ipad app (by the author of said app). so awesome! stop chopping onions! plinky12.com/community/ch... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1D... bodes well

Ambiotica on Plinky 12

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After a solid run of about 13 years at Double Fine, It seems I have found myself with an abundance of free time. If you know anyone hiring for games VFX, please let me know!

this made me think of @nothings.bsky.social especially when (thank god) he moved to the rolling average youtu.be/O0dv5bKK8w0?...

Can *you* hear a song all at once?

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i enjoyed this interview; wasnt quite what i expected; thomas bangalter on rave / music / art / ballet as ritual ... rambling but engaging. youtu.be/Etl79iuZxaU?...

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter on Life After the Helmet | CHANEL Connects

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try to follow along with 3d reconstruction literature but a lot of the work (surely v cool) is in a similar place to shadowmap papers in the 00s: selotape together a new combo of recent techniques, show improvement on some scenes. this kind of 'kitchen sink' complexity makes me want to wait it out

Zhenjun Zhao@ericzzj.bsky.social · 6d ago

tl;dr: RoMa v2 + MFT + DAv3 + MegaLoc + different handling of sequential tracking and loop closure + metric-scale GLOMAP with depth priors

this is such brilliant work. id never have thought to fit toruses, but nicole's explanation below makes it seem so natural in hindsight. and then packs 9000 other awesome connections to other hard problems into one paper. chapeau to her & the co-authors

Nicole Feng@nicole--f.bsky.social · last wk.

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: 🧵

just need to vent. saw this pop into my inbox & involuntarily blurted out loud 'oh F OFF'. im not even 'that' anti AI (well, its a journey & im pointed that way...) the product evangelism UGH i understand the mechanisms; just F OFF ALREADY cant wait for this ~universal sentiment to reach the C suite

I made a dumb little thing that lets you evolve 'bytebeat' sounds/"music" chadlyb.github.io/bytelab

bought a noname brand volume knob off amazon for a tenner. its just a little metal enclosure, a bog standard pec11 encoder, 6 rgb leds, and a magnet in the base. no docs but opened it up revealing a brand, and that was enough to figure out the HID report to change led colour.

how have i never seen this before. poetry. youtube.com/shorts/vfRrb...

18 September 2024

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SIGGRAPH 2026 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2026/07/26/s.... I'll continue to add to the list as more things show up online.

Fierce Skincare Blender Geometry Nodes will make wonders for your skin 💫 #b3d #geometrynodes #art

kids binging taskmaster on channel 4 so i get to experience infinite 'weirdly crisp, clean, colour balanced' euro ad style. i hate it so much. its such a noticable 'look du jour'. kinda 4k rendered/ai looking. even when (somewhat) real footage. intentionally. i dont get the appeal at all.

does anyone know of any editor type apps (in any domain) that do something interesting for the case of 'show me the properties of some clicked object?'. ye olde 'inspector pane on the side of the screen' is the default, but are there cuter ways? a popup window over the object itself, obviously... hm

Run the LCG output through a hash function and you've actually got a competitive generator. This is the only one you need to know. www.pcg-random.org/index.html

rewatching true detective series 1. is good

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I found the first smear frame ever

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they used to make me wear a cowboy hat when I did this at mediamolecule

*walks into room of mathematicians* Have you considered DOING A BREAKTHROUGH.

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 2w ago

the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture, a graph theory problem that’s gone unsolved for 30 years, was solved with this prompt

enjoyed this more than I'd like to admit www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKSP...

Goldie - Jungle Daze (feat. Natalie Williams) [Official Video]

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