My team just open-sourced our internal implementation of the OpenPBR BSDF from our path tracer: github.com/adobe/openpb...
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My team just open-sourced our internal implementation of the OpenPBR BSDF from our path tracer: github.com/adobe/openpb...
You'd think they'd have the decency to wait for the body of "Web 3.0" to cool.
SRL's Tesla coil, reborn and, um, upgraded:
youtu.be/RoGbrgOhPes?...
sturgeons-law.gif
Nice, thanks!
I sent out my #ptpx2025 cards yesterday. Here's what's on them: iq0.com/ptpx2025.html
Normal people don't act that way!
Hey look it's fir-dimensional.
A lovely tribute to a recently-departed singular talent. jericsmith.com/2025/12/17/g...
goddamnit
Nice! My better half's new YA book about Anna Atkins is on a number of Best of 2025 lists, including: www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
I got to do an explainer of neural shading-- with my NVIDIA hat on this time, and still full of Slang goodness! It's posted over at the NVIDIA developer blog: developer.nvidia.com/blog/how-to-...
Really think this Shtetl Optimized piece by Harvey Lederman is worth reading: scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
Not sure it's an optimistic future, but it is a future that is still joyful
Ooh time to queue up Manic Pop Thrill
Today we released a new demo showcasing RTX Mega Geometry, ReSTIR PT, and DLSS all running together in our NvRTX branch of UE 5.6.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qyo...
And so it begins
Subtly downgrade a band
They Are Unlikely To Be Giants
If only Darwin had taken care of those prone to believing that cooked food was just a scam perpetuated by Big Fire.
We as a species are distressingly prone to correlating the accuracy of a statement with the apparent confidence of the speaker.
"How many strawberries are there in The Garden of Earthly Delights?"
Many a time has somebody in my family tuned some crap into a crepe.
Our family is also forever indebted to him for providing the foundation of and endless set of goofy dinnertime riffs: youtu.be/91BQqdNOUxs?...
My Dad played "An Evening Wasted With" for me when I was a very wee kiddo, and I remember being pleasantly shocked that grownups were allowed to be hilariously and cleverly snarky and sarcastic. A truly formative moment. He had a great run, but still: Damnit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Today in "why didn't anybody tell me about this a decade ago": github.com/chrisant996/...
A whitewashed pub wall, with mortar standing proud of the stones.
When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)
Join us next week for the next installment of Getting Started with Slang! This webinar will be on the Reflections API.
When: July 8th at 8:00am PDT
Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
#Slang #Reflections #API
Don't forget eye protection.
Slang is the way. ;)
Come on, how do you expect a newborn to learn to pull itself up by its bootstraps if you just outright give it diapers and warm blankets?
