Relics

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[hillsguy.bsky.social @Hillsguy2]

Experimenting with S3TC/BC1/DXT1 compression. The idea is to intentionally leak channel data into each other to reduce blockiness and get at least some data instead of averaged out 4x4 blocks.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

There is currently a plan to connect Atlanta and Charlotte with high speed rail in under two hours but our leaders would rather make us spend $350 each way on planes than fund this.

[John Hable @FilmicWorlds]

New Post: Adaptive Compute Tessellation. Taking the tess pattern from the previous post and turning it into a WebGPU demo.
https://t.co/5RyAtHCsRQ

[折登 樹 @MatchaChoco010]

自作レンダラーのMaterialX対応をMatrialX 1.39.5にアップデートしました。画像は新しく追加されたプロシージャルなflakeノードによるラメみたいなレンダリングと、MRMによるretroreflectiveな反射材のマテリアルを利用した場合とそうでない場合の三角コーンの比較レンダリングです。

[Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli]

There's a new paper out in JCGT that proposes a super simple modification of existing microfacet models to implement a retroreflection model. What's interesting is that despite being insanely simple, the model fits measured data better than you'd think!

https://t.co/rIRAw9Xess

[Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli]

I'm a little late to the party on this one since it's from January, but I just read this great blog post by Jure Triglav walking through implementing surfel-based global illumination. It's got a bunch of really cool interactive toys/visualizers!

https://t.co/T5fsPEVx2N

[Relics @Relics_R6]

@cgpov @panoskarabelas @MrDrElliot hmmm meshlets and now this??

[Max Liani @maxliani]

About 3.5 years ago I did some experiment to improve the behavior of microfacet normals at glancing angles. Many surfaces become highly reflective even though having high roughness. Check the discussion in the thread. Here is my implementation reusing equations you already have:

[Relics @Relics_R6]

@ocornut New ImGui tool! ImMagnify or call it ImEnhance haha

[Tom Dörr @tom_doerr]

Extracts high-quality 3D meshes from Gaussian splatting

https://t.co/s9HplgFBi7

[Tore Lervik @toreler]

I get a lot of questions on how many meshes you can safely blend using MeshBlend.
The short answer, as many as you like!👀

At its core MeshBlend is a shader and it scales with the internal render resolution. Running a 4090 at 2560x1440 gives me 0.07-0.09 ms per frame on the low quality preset. Which I feel is pretty damn good!

Balancing quality and performance has always been my main goal. Targeting ~0.2-0.4 ms on a PS5 while delivering a quality acceptable for AAA projects.

It's a never ending battle. Always chasing any 0.01 ms I can shave off!🥳

#gamedev @UnrealEngine

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

This is the kinda shit that makes it impossible to be completely anti AI, this is legitimately magic software, replacing menial work nobody wants to do

[Underfox @Underfox3]

In this paper, researchers have demonstrated an 8D neural representation that learns global light transport inside 3D assets from forward path-traced samples.

https://t.co/p1fch5Ezr8

[Sebastian Aaltonen @SebAaltonen]

With optimized storage:

4096x4096 BC7/ASTC4x4 texture + mips = 21.3MB

Million vertices = 24MB
- RGBA16 position (pow2 round up bbox)
- RGB10A2 normal
- RGB10A2 tangent
- RGBA8 color
- RG16 UV [-8,+8]
= 24 bytes/vertex

Million triangles = 3 million indices = 12MB
Mesh = 36MB

[Relics @Relics_R6]

@panoskarabelas Brooo next localized volumetric fog

[Relics @Relics_R6]

@CaptainGPU @panoskarabelas

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy shit, this is BRILLIANT: This dude breaks down why everyone thinks the whole WHCD event was fake... everything about trump is FAKE.

Best video you'll see today.

[jendrik illner @jendrikillner]

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 438 - April 27h, 2026 https://t.co/bWr7BnVkXy

[Relics @Relics_R6]

@MrDrElliot @panoskarabelas

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Ford can suck my white ass.