INTRODUCTION TO SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR GRAPHICS PROGRAMMERS

finally done.

gpfault.net/posts/sph.html

Just got back from Revision demoparty—my 64KB intro took 1st place. Huge thanks to @alkama.bsky.social for the audio work that made this possible. It’s a fully procedural 3:40 animation packed into a 58KB executable. I had a blast building it, and the audience reaction was incredible.

It's awesome, congrats dude!

That guy is just too fucking stoked. Cannot handle that level of stokeness.

:D

Pushing Simulation to the Limit to Find Order in Chaos YouTube video by Drew's Campfire

A colleague sent me this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jVo...

No further comments needed, it's **very** good.

I've seen some of his videos in the past, but I missed this one. Glad I saw it.

New post on how to do real-time diffuse global illumination using surfels and #WebGPU: juretriglav.si/surfel-based... #threejs

"Order and disorder." probably my last take at #genuary26, uses a 3D pathfinder to go from neatly ordered stacks to a random layout. #genuary2615

BTW, I'm available for freelance work (2 days a week for now).

HIRE ME, I'm GOOD (& CHEAP! 😁)

also ok with collabs, mentoring, Q&As, AMA...

Melua - Civilization YouTube video by Melua

Our bands new music video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1yu...

Graphics Programming Conference The Graphics Programming Conference is a conference for graphics programmers, from student to industry veteran, taking place in November in Europe.

All the presentations slides of the Graphics Programming Conference 2025 are up #GPC2025
graphicsprogrammingconference.com/archive/2025/

Went to see the latest Avatar (HFR) with my boy and...: Does my gamer/gfx brain see fps differenty then Cameron's brain?

The movie is both 24 and 48fps, it jumps between and this switch makes 24fps look extremely laggy! It looks so disturbing that some people MUST perceive fps differently then me.

No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...

I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works) How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works - "Dual Kawase"

Great read: "Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)" blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

This is Sektori! A twin-stick shooter I've been making (and documenting the journey) since April 2021. And it finally launched TODAY on Steam, PS5 and Xbox! Here's a fresh launch trailer, all shares highly appreciated. More game info in replies.

#indiegame #ps5 #xbox #steam #indiedev #gamedev

...and right file size.

I've been avoiding news since June. I'm totally unaware of how scared and angry I should be.

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow:
blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Looking forward to my first ever Siggraph next week! Who's around? Who wants to have a drink? What are you looking forward to catch at the conference? See you soon!

WUNDERLUST by Gray Marchers graymarchers.github.io/wunderlust/W...

Pretty cool! Boys are on a winning streak. :)

Awesome!

I'll be at Siggraph Vancouver this year. Anyone else going?

Lighting decomposition. The six panes show different parts of the baked and runtime lighting.

A roof tile texture compression example. An RGB diffuse texture and a normal map are both compressed to a 16-color palette image in a way that palette indices are shared. Therefore the actual image data has to be stored just once at 4 bits per pixel.

A new blog post on our N64 demo: 30fps.net/pages/palett...

It explains the normal mapping technique and how baked lighting was stored and composited at runtime. Also reveals what a hack the specular effects were!

Load-store conflicts meshoptimizer implements several geometry compression algorithms that are designed to take advantage of redundancies common in mesh data and decompress quickly - targeting many gigabytes per second in...

New blog post! "Load store conflicts", in which we look at some performance sensitive code that has surprisingly dramatic performance swings based on the compiler and the microarchitecture used. Reposts appreciated!

zeux.io/2025/05/03/l...

or even "do" say

but what does they say?

IGORRR - ADHD YouTube video by Igorrr

🧠💥🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIv...

Those progressive switches 🤌

d159 : Android Demo, NVScene 2015 (NVidia Shield Tablet) YouTube video by Simo Santavirta

Made this Android-demo ten years ago : www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1v... (music by @gloom303.com)

Melua - Time YouTube video by Melua

Our band released a music video.
youtu.be/iv_qih9YgSY?...