Mastodawn

All HPG 2025 papers are now available on the EG digital library.
CGF papers: https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/3607201
Conference papers: https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/3607202
It has been a huge honor to act as HPG papers chair and guest editor and I look forward to an exciting program in Copenhagen.

44-Issue 8

High-Performance Graphics 2025

Matt Pharr Jun 21

Julian Fong Jun 21

Our HPG paper on our next generation renderer RenderMan XPU is now available online: https://diglib.eg.org/bitstream/handle/10.1111/cgf70218/cgf70218.pdf

Matt Pharr Jun 11

Stephen Hill Jun 10

The SIGGRAPH Physically Based Shading course is back this year: https://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2025-shading-course/

Matt Pharr May 13

Keenan Crane May 13

Huge congratulations to my former PhD student Rohan Sawhney for winning the SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award! 🥳

Rohan's thesis develops a whole new class of Monte Carlo methods for solving physical equations, without needing to break the world up into a mesh.

Dissertation here: http://rohansawhney.io/RohanSawhneyPhDThesis.pdf

Explainer thread here: https://x.com/keenanisalive/status/1258152669727899650

Rohan has also compiled some great course material, videos & code: https://rohan-sawhney.github.io/mcgp-resources/

Matt Pharr May 10

Yining Karl Li May 10

@jiayincao has an awesome new post on ReSTIR GI; highly recommended reading:

https://agraphicsguynotes.com/posts/understanding_the_math_behind_restir_gi/

Understanding The Math Behind ReSTIR GI

Recently, I had the pleasure of contributing to Nvidia’s Zorah project, the flagship demo for the RTX 50 Series GPUs. My primary role was to provide technical support for light transport in Zorah, which included collaborating with my colleague Daqi Lin to implement a brand new ReSTIR-based global illumination solution, specifically, ReSTIR PT[1], within the NvRTX branch of Unreal Engine. A GDC presentation video on Zorah was released a few weeks ago.

Matt Pharr May 10

Sakib Saikia 🇨🇦May 9

Graphics programming is just about discovering different types of aliasing until the day you die.

Matt Pharr Mar 7

Show thread

Yining Karl Li Mar 7

I sense complexity spirit demon.

https://grugbrain.dev

The Grug Brained Developer

Matt Pharr Dec 26, 2024

SoufianeKHIAT Dec 26, 2024

#GfxFunFact: Ikea design this ceiling light cover on purpose to slowdown rendering.

Matt Pharr Dec 21, 2024

jwz Dec 20, 2024

Elon Musk Boosting German Fascists, What Could Possibly Go Wrong.

His politics are so mysterious! Stop us if you've heard this one before: a bigoted industrialist who owns a giant car company has endorsed a far-right German political party full of...
https://jwz.org/b/yke4

Matt Pharr Dec 3, 2024

pulusound Dec 2, 2024

emacs users horrified to discover that "meta-x" now means two awful social media companies