Christoph Kubisch

Working mostly on rendering technology for provis in Vulkan. Various open-source samples can be found at github.com/nvpro-samples my focus is tech for scenes with lots of geometry (GPU-driven pipelines)

Removing AI from your feed with 4 of my illustrations✨

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 459 - October 18th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 458 - October 11th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

#peachtober26 day 12: bramble 🐁🪜 Jill Barklem inspired mice :) #illustration #art #digitalart

I just pushed a new demo version of 8-bitBot to steam: store.steampowered.c... It features quite a couple of new levels and quality of life improvements as well as performance improvements :) #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

The first game to Ray Trace Nanite has arrived! Gears of War: E-Day is out now - with super charged ray tracing powered by RTX Mega Geometry. Proud of what we achieved with our friends at The Coalition. www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...

First step in introducing different difficulty lanes: Having 3 distinct difficulty markers. I need to create some branching now so higher difficulty routes are shorter (=have fewer nodes). #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

New blog post! In "Billions of triangles redux" we take another stab at improving various parts of clustered level of detail pipeline to make Zorah smaller and nicer! zeux.io/2026/09/30/b...

DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering Short video for now - I might do a longer one later? youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info. github.com/tomforsyth10...

meshoptimizer 1.3 is out! Featuring a new voxel remesher, support for normal generation, several simplification improvements and various optimizations and fixes. GitHub stars and reposts appreciated! meshoptimizer was started 10 years ago; excited for the years to come! github.com/zeux/meshopt...

Spark 1.4 is finally out! The highlight is HDR: new BC6H and ASTC HDR codecs, offline quality at real-time speeds. Also: BC1 Ultra, a BC7 codec for packed material maps, ASTC 5×5, and broader device support. www.ludicon.com/castano/blog...

Decided to finally paint my little wartime house. gouache on illustration board #gouache #art #painting #montreal

It's done! My beautiful and optimized wasm/webgpu quake port is live! c0de517e.com/EXTERNAL/IRO...

A little motivation

Took in the ref I used for this and tried correcting some shapes and work over the armour

I managed to randomize the production queues a bit, so now it is essential to check what a bot has loaded. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

meshoptimizer turns 10 today! This blindsided me a little bit; I thought it would be later this year. So I don't have an anniversary release or post ready; I'm on a tail end of a few neat improvements that need a bit more time to work on or write about. Time flies!

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 453 - August 30th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

I made a new shop!!!! heyheymomo.com ❤️ Prints, shirts, digital downloads, stuff! Much more to come in the future! Woohoo!

Distorting space with sine functions #math

New update of Jean-Eudes Marvie's gaussian splatting rendering research framework #3dgs @vulkan.org nvpro-samples.github.io/vk_gaussian_...

big doors are cool. Wip screenshot from my Quake Rooftops jam map.

#geogram just reached 2500 stars on github, And that's not all, version 1.10.1 was just released: github.com/BrunoLevy/ge... Geogram is in C++, but it also supports Python, Node.js, WebAssembly, TypeScript and Lua through Rosetta by Frantz Maerten, more on this here: github.com/rosetta-bind...

some more 3d yarn exploration, thanks to this excellent video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy86... #blender #geometrynodes

jms55.github.io/posts/2026-0...

daily reminder ✨

Vagabond’s Serpent

I’m stoked this is finally revealed! Gears of War: E-Day is a graphics milestone - the world’s first game to ray trace Nanite in real-time, delivered with RTX Mega Geometry. Huge thanks to The Coalition for the vision and collaboration that made this result possible. youtu.be/yeMtCvxBiIM?...

The new version of Enshrouded has replaced triangle meshes with SDF bricks for terrain 👀 youtu.be/4AQycxtpPno?...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 452 - August 23rd, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

WIP spec for Work Lists, the successor to ExecuteIndirect that lets you change PSOs between draws and dispatches github.com/microsoft/Di...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 451 - August 16th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 450 - August 9th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Slides for SIGGRAPH 2026 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course's talk on Variable Rate Ray Tracing in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 by Michał Olejnik from Activision are now online - enjoy!! advances.realtimerendering.com/s2026/index....

Marmoset Toolbag 5.03 is officially out! It introduces brand-new features & significant improvements to Toolbag's baking, texturing, and rendering systems, such as: ✅ Text Layers ✅ Scatter Layers ✅ Pause Tiles ✅ SVG Vector Import ✅ SpaceMouse Support & much more!

One of my most requested articles is something on inverse kinematics and foot sliding. I finally found the time to write up the little recipes that have served me well through the years, including an offline method I used recently that works surprisingly nicely. theorangeduck.com/page/inverse...

Knytt has been faitfully recreated by @bitkidgames.com to run on current operating systems and was just released on Steam and GOG, completely free Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2656050/...

Major update to our continuous cluster lod rendering sample. Reduces memory consumption for ray tracing by not keeping vertex positions resident and rely on fetch intrinsics. Thanks to Calvin Hsu for investigations on this. We also improved the path tracing a bit. www.github.com/nvpro-sample...

Slides for SIGGRAPH 2026 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course's talk on SMOLDER — REAL-TIME VOLUMETRIC EFFECT RENDERING IN GLACIER AND 007 FIRST LIGHT by @lexdev.net from IO Interactive are now online - enjoy!! advances.realtimerendering.com/s2026/index....

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 448 - July 27th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

BIG Cargo - Thanks for 150 follows 🤍 #lowpoly

A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU jcgt.org/published/00... New published paper! The premise is that you can offload polynomial evaluation to the texture sampling unit, which can be useful for improving execution times if you are compute bound.

So many new features in vk_gltf_renderer (github.com/nvpro-sample...) since my last post, I'll drop a few highlights. - glTF 2.1 External Assets - Releases: compiled version of the sample - PBR: better volume scattering, retroreflection - Optimizations: material compile defines - Opacity Micromesh

At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵

New random sampling method for three-gpu-pathtracer: blue noise dither sampling! It offsets a common random sequence for ALL screen samples, yielding a cleaner image in just a few samples. Screenshots are single sample scrambled sobol vs blue noise. Small writeup below👇

dear imgui 1.92.9 released! github.com/ocornut/imgu... - new liveedit on/off settings and defaults - tables track topology changes - metal4 rendering backend - timestamped settings entries (for cleanup etc.) - 50+ other changes/fixes (fonts, multi-select, popups, backends etc.).