New Use.GPU release (0.18) with: - order-independent transparency (WBOIT) - improved dolly zoom to full orthographic, with support for SSAO and other post-fx - rewritten quad-tree map tile renderer with arc labels Docs and demos at: usegpu.live
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Professional shape rotator. More true than is convenient. https://acko.net/ https://usegpu.live/
Use.GPU 0.15 is out! Highlights: - Shaded lines and point clouds - Narrow and wide (>90º) spot lights with hemispherical shadow maps - Improved GLTF `.bin` loader for packed/inline textures Also finally rendered a Sponza atrium. Demos: usegpu.live/demo/plot/tu... Docs: usegpu.live
Releasing "Stable Fiddusion", a frequency-space 2D/3D/STBN blue noise generator. WebGPU implementation goes brrrr. acko.net/blog/stable-...
Stable Fiddusion
Frequency-domain blue noise generator
acko.net
New post on the math behind Use.GPUs secret subpixel SDF sauce. With zoomable diagrams if you're on a WebGPU capable browser. https://acko.net/blog/subpixel-distance-transform/
Sub-pixel Distance Transform
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
acko.net
It used to be "talk is silver, code is gold" except now it's like a freemium game where silver is the worthless dopamine drip and gold just costs money.
An interactive code/data walkthrough of Live, the incremental effect run-time behind Use.GPU: https://acko.net/blog/do-it-live/
>we prefer to delegate stuff like that to tools >why has our codebase grown so messy can you help us fix that same people
I will eventually write my "here's what you should've been taught about how to structure your react codebase"... but not right now because I don't need more work
I was wondering if anyone other than Twitter could make a half decent infinite scroller web app but based on how much this app spazzes out when you press Back the answer so far is no.
The secret to doing magic with code is not genius tier effort but just writing as little of it as possible. I find this is impossible to teach. You have to feel it in your bones.
Substack has speedrun the descent of Medium as far as the reader's experience goes.
Social media did to progressives what progressives thought Fox News would do to boomers
Desirable microblogging features: - search all posts I've seen today/this week/ever - view the combined feed of people I follow - gantt chart of trends and their longevity, in particular when one topic displaces another I want tools to manage the firehose and fight social media psyops.
It feels nice because it's a social network filtered by high intelligence, like the early 2000s internet.