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

Where do you keep your skeletons when it's not Halloween?

Something I've wanted to write up for a while, this is how I wish I'd learned spherical harmonics: andrew-helmer.github.io/demystifying...

I have formed an opinion. Animators begin with a walk cycle, but an animator is *good* when they can animate a *strut* correctly.

Daniel Meister and Takahiro Harada: BVH Encoding for Neural-Assisted Ray Tracing jcgt.org/published/00...

Did they fiddle with the color grading or something on the OoT remake? I remember Young Link looking super out of place, and that is *not* the case in the new trailer. Looks nice now!

DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering A new rendering algo that lets you merge a whole bunch of ShaderToy and raytracer-style techniques right into your existing bone-animated triangle mesh rasterisation pipeline. New longer technical details video: youtu.be/SA2cXydaq1A

Mistletoe Harvest. Gouache on paper. Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 457 - September 27th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

I spend a lot of time on the internet. But recently I participated in a "scheduled go visit your neighbors" thing, and I gotta say there's something to talking to real humans outside your house.

Emissive shaders. Type a temperature in K and get a blackbody colour – that's how most shaders do it, and it's wrong for practically every real material. Kirchhoff's law fixes it. www.linkedin.com/pulse/therma...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc9-... This is a pretty neat technique. Well-presented, too!

Only squirrels scream at you with their whole ass

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 456 - September 20th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

I always judge myself for the things I forget, but never credit myself for the things I remember.

I wonder how much the impact of AI will end up like autotune, pushing audiences to pursue perceived authenticity

Incredibly unusual to get a news notification that I actually want to look at. But a new cat species? And it's *tiny*? Wonderful!

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 454 - September 6th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

That feeling when a script you wrote a whole back is fed new data for a new project and it Just Works

Is 9/11 the new Christmas? This whole month has been headlines buzzing about it. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

New Ocarina of Time discourse is mostly about how Link looks, but I really take issue with the AAA quest design and extra button prompt and dialogue nonsense. Navi out here telling me how to solve puzzles? Please stop.

I read that the AI Navier-Stokes solution cost 15M in equivalent Astra tokens, and I can't stop wondering about the value from paying 100 Math professors for a year instead. Or spending the upfront cost before this 15M. The Manhattan Project cost 40B in 2026 $ in total!

You've heard of "can it play Doom", get ready for "Can you play it in Doom?"

Ok, so Furball, a (no gen-AI) brush-based Godot level design tool, just hit its first release: codeberg.org/YaveinLeCret... but that's not the crazy thing the dev goofed and listed their ACTUAL KOFI on there: ko-fi.com/yavin You can just, give them money! to work on Godot level editor tooling!

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

I was told the peppers in my CSA basket were *sweet* peppers. This left out the fact that these things, while sweet, are hotter than jalapenos and should not be snacked on directly.

I'm quite happy with this photo

Pretty darn good for a phone camera in a light-polluted area

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

did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume

The pre-movie ads for this oddessey showing I'm at are targeted at a *significantly* older audience than I'm used to. How many bathroom remodel ads are there?

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 451 - August 16th, 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....

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

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

I'm booting into Win11 for the first time in months, for corporate reasons, and holy moly is this slow. I'm having such a better time in Linux.

DS1 Deathless Any% glitchless complete! Man there's so much glitchy nonsense that can suddenly kill you in this game.

hey, here's a fun lil proof of concept i threw together a couple months ago and never posted about. made with godot (.net) and libsm64-godot. #chess_arts

I've been trying to write this page since … 2015! Each time I try, get frustrated, quit, start over. But this time I think I might have gotten the page to a good state … www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 449 - August 2nd, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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

Hello I am here to tell you about the best-written game I’ve played this year: UNBEATABLE

Of tetris can manage to avoid consecutive pieces, twitch can figure out how to not show me the same ad twice in a row

A generation of MBAs were trained on the idea that massive gains could come from optimizing a business, but never on what happens once the business is optimized.

I made a game with my friends! itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam... It's...not great, but it exists!

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

Does the 3d quality of a physical book matter in your mental model of it? I'm finding that ebooks disconnect me from that extra dimension of where I am in a story.

I don't understand how a post I made 6 months ago of a mem I saved from God knows where is somehow popping off, but it feels like I stole someone's cred.