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Claudia Doppioslash/ShaderCat

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Mind Contortionist and Bit Enchantress
Principal Graphics Programmer in games

Topics: Rendering (physically based), Procedural Generation (Houdini mostly), Color Science, Animation and rigging, Blender, Photogrammetry. Rust, Python, C++
Game engines: Unreal Engine, Unity, O3DE a bit

Author of "Physically Based Shader Development for Unity 2017" (Apress)

May contain some traces of Functional Programming and/or fancy types

I live on Mastodon now

#nobridge

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Claudia Doppioslash/ShaderCat 11h ago

Jendrik Illner 23h ago

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 432 - March 15th, 2026 https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-432/

Claudia Doppioslash/ShaderCat 1d ago

Today I learned 1d ago

TIL that the world’s first "selfie" was taken in 1839 by Robert Cornelius, an amateur chemist and photography enthusiast. He had to sit still for over 15 minutes to capture the image.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cornelius
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rxhyis/til_that_the_worlds_first_selfie_was_taken_in/

Claudia Doppioslash/ShaderCat 1d ago

fork_dev 1d ago

Today is Fork's birthday 🎂. It's been 10 years since the first commit. Time flies, but when we look back at our journey, it turns out it hasn't been a short one. Thank you for being with us, for your feature requests and bug reports! ❤️ Looking forward to the next 10 years!🤘

Claudia Doppioslash/ShaderCat 1d ago

troy_s

1d ago

"[APPLE] Spectral Definition of Standard Color Space Primaries for Display"

https://library.imaging.org/cic/articles/33/1/27

h/t Zach L.

Spectral Definition of Standard Color Space Primaries for Display

Claudia Doppioslash/ShaderCat 1d ago

Yining Karl Li 3d ago

There's a pair of Digital Foundry videos out about Crimson Desert. Their completely custom Blackspace Engine looks to be an absolute technical marvel- highly performant ray traced GI running on mid-tier hardware across the board.

I really hope Pearl Abyss presents at SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering this year! They've really pulled off something remarkable; the game looks like a zillion bucks and it's actually well optimized.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uUIBUoJhk8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlRpJ553RzE

Crimson Desert on PlayStation 5 Pro - The Digital Foundry Deep Dive

YouTube

Claudia Doppioslash/ShaderCat 1d ago

"Emperor insists he’s not naked" https://mastodon.social/@GIbiz/116249741899943215

Claudia Doppioslash/ShaderCat 2d ago

GPUOpen 2d ago

Introducing AMD Smoldr, our open-source CLI to run #DirectX12 HLSL from simple text scripts.

🛠️ Compile shaders, create resources & pipelines
⚙️ Dispatch compute & ray tracing
🐞 Prototype/debug without C++

Faster iteration for DX12 devs 👇

https://gpuopen.com/learn/enhancing-directx-testing-with-smoldr/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smoldr

Enhancing DirectX Testing with AMD Smoldr - AMD GPUOpen

Smoldr is an open-source command-line tool that runs DirectX 12 HLSL shaders from simple text scripts, letting you compile, create resources and pipelines, and dispatch compute or raytracing workloads without writing C++ code.

Claudia Doppioslash/ShaderCat 2d ago

Servo 2d ago

Thanks to the Servo community, we raised 59430 USD last year! We spent nearly half of that amount on…

👩‍🔧🎓 one Outreachy internship
📦🤖 five dedicated CI servers
👨‍🏫🧑‍🎓 89 hours of review work

https://opencollective.com/servo/updates/servo-collective-2025-in-review

Servo Collective: 2025 in review - Servo

2025 was the second year of the Servo Collective, and in that year we raised 59,430.02 USD (+62.5% over 2024). Your donations have helped the Servo project grow with its community in a variety of ways, paying for...

Claudia Doppioslash/ShaderCat 3d ago

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Fabian Giesen 3d ago

@aras It's fucking absurd. Temporal AA/dyn res is already, let's just say, not uncontroversial, but DLSS "classic" is certainly a state-of-the-art impl of that idea. I'm fine with that. (Temporal artifacts are always bugging me, but sigh, such is life I guess?)

Frame generation was already jumping the shark - making up fake frames while doing nothing about latency (and in fact usually making it worse), no thanks.

This is just... no words.

Claudia Doppioslash/ShaderCat 3d ago

Aras Pranckevičius 3d ago

My first reaction to DLSS5 can be summarized as “🤮”. So now this completely discards artistic intent, and replaces all game characters with fake instagram influencers?

Is it just me?

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Delivers AI-Powered Breakthrough In Visual Fidelity For Games

NVIDIA DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials to bridge the gap between rendering and reality.

NVIDIA