INTRODUCTION TO SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR GRAPHICS PROGRAMMERS

finally done.

gpfault.net/posts/sph.html

meshoptimizer 1.1 is out!

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Featuring two new major features, meshlet topology compression and opacity micromaps, as well as a few smaller features and improvements! More information in the infographic and release above :)

Boosts and repository stars are welcome!

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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 :)

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Nanite Tessellation Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
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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 :)
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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".

After nine years of development, meshoptimizer has reached its first major version, 1.0!

This release focuses on improvements in clusterization and simplification as well as stabilization. Here's a release announcement with more details on past, present and future; please RT!

meshoptimizer.org/v1

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GitHub - Geolm/bc_crunch: tiny dependency-free lossless compressor for BC/DXT texture streams (C99, ~700 LoC) tiny dependency-free lossless compressor for BC/DXT texture streams (C99, ~700 LoC) - Geolm/bc_crunch

Just released bc_crunch: a tiny (~700 LOC), C99 library for lossless BC1/BC4/BC3/BC5 compression.
One .c/.h pair, no deps, no malloc
GPU-ready output
Zigzag + delta + popcount/dictionary tricks
Tested
Perfect for games, procedural assets, streaming textures.

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Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels - Aleksa Gordić From GPU architecture and PTX/SASS to warp-tiling and deep asynchronous tensor core pipelines.

"Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels", includes a great intro to GPU architecture and PTX/SASS: www.aleksagordic.com/blog/matmul

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Great write up. I wonder does nointerpolation have any notable impact?