Alain Galvan

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Driver Engineer @ AMD! Prev. @ https://Marmoset.co! Love writing about 🔺 Computer Graphics and 🎨 Art. 👋 My views only. DMs open!
Sitehttps://alain.xyz
Githubhttps://github.com/alaingalvan
LinkedInhttps://linkedin.com/in/alaingalvan
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Alain GalvanSep 30, 2024
Managed to get a library I wrote compiled and running on Windows 11 ARM64. Microsoft discourages installing Visual Studio 2022 + Build Tools with a dismissible popup that says ARM64 isn't supported, but otherwise Visual Studio, C++ apps, and Rust work fine.
Alain GalvanSep 1, 2024
I recently bought one of the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite machines, the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge. The battery is similar to other arm devices like your phone, but is running Windows and can run most apps natively or with x86 emulation. Love the battery life and low heat.
Alain GalvanAug 4, 2024
I was in High Performance Graphics 2024 in Denver, CO last weekend and the experience was inspiring and enlightening. Seeing distinguished speakers share impressive papers and posters such as H-PLOC, DGF, and neural denoisers with such a depth of knowledge and understanding in this domain made the trip worth it. https://gpuopen.com/advanced-rendering-research/
Advanced Rendering Research Group

Find out more about the work of our Advanced Rendering Research Group, including projects, publications, and more.

AMD GPUOpen
Alain GalvanJul 24, 2024
Christopher BattyOct 19, 2023
For computer graphics academics and researchers, I threw this list of folks together. Apologies if I've forgotten anyone or included anyone who prefers to be forgotten! Let me know if there are any errors or corrections. Hoping this will help folks migrating from the birdsite. 🙂
https://christopherbatty.github.io/Mastodon-Graphics-Academics/
Graphics Academics on Mastodon

A list of Graphics Academics on Mastodon

Alain GalvanJul 11, 2024
I'll be in Denver, CO for High Performance Graphics (HPG) this year, if you're headed there feel free to say hi! 👋
Alain GalvanJul 1, 2024
In an attempt to speed up and automate publishing to Facebook/X/Mastodon/Threads/Bluesky/whatever, I've been working on making my site compliant with the activitystream 2.0 spec. Indieweb is a big inspiration: https://aaronparecki.com/2012/09/09/6/indieweb
Demo post (for @indiewebcampUK) -- demonstrating my posting UI. ...

Demo post (for @indiewebcampUK) -- demonstrating my posting UI. After the text gets too long it truncates automatically and adds a citation link. Hashtags are preserved. #indieweb

Aaron Parecki
Alain GalvanMay 4, 2024

I was experimenting with Phi-3, the small language model open sourced by Microsoft that uses ONNX and DirectML as the runtime for the model, and found it useful for performing 'image editor' like operations on text.

Like an image being rescaled, adjusted with curves or hue-saturation-lightness, or sharpened with edge detection, our sentences can also be adjusted by these models making them easier to understand, reword, and thus communicate our intent more precisely.

https://onnxruntime.ai/blogs/accelerating-phi-3

ONNX Runtime | Blogs/accelerating-phi-3

Cross-platform accelerated machine learning. Built-in optimizations speed up training and inferencing with your existing technology stack.

Alain GalvanMar 3, 2023
demofoxMar 3, 2023
I'm about to start my journey into Vulkan, and read up on some graphics techniques, in this great book by @GabrielSassone and @theWarhelm
https://www.packtpub.com/product/mastering-graphics-programming-with-vulkan/9781803244792
Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan | Packt

Develop a rendering framework by implementing next-generation 3D graphics, leveraging advanced Vulkan features, and getting familiar with efficient real-time ray tracing techniques uncovered by leading industry experts

Packt
Alain GalvanJan 26, 2023
Jeremy OngJan 26, 2023

Another blog post, this time on my general approach to understanding and analyzing large, scary, unfamiliar codebases

https://www.jeremyong.com/game%20engines/2023/01/25/grokking-big-unfamiliar-codebases/

Grokking Big Unfamiliar Codebases – Jeremy's Blog

C++, graphics, Vulkan, DirectX, Math, compilers, and more

Alain GalvanJan 22, 2023
MDX (https://mdxjs.com/) is so easy to extend! Added line numbers and support for React props in code snippets so they can show highlighted lines, titles, and a copy button.
Markdown for the component era | MDX

MDX lets you use JSX in your markdown content. You can import components, such as interactive charts or alerts, and embed them within your content. This makes writing long-form content with components a blast.

MDX