SIGGRAPH - Ubisoft : GPU-Driven Rendering Pipelines
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Growing older, I find that games, movies, TV are all limiting forms of entertainment, and that by far the best form of story driven consumables is the book. Right now I'm half through On the Steel...
View ArticleQuick ACES Thoughts
Appears that the RRT global de-saturate step applied in AP1 drops to a gamut smaller than Rec2020. This seems to be ok when targeting Rec709/sRGB but not sure if this is future proof in the context of...
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Atari Shock Reloaded?
Maybe this post should just be called "Indie Shock". Interesting graph below posted on twitter of the number of Steam game releases over time. Saturating isn't it?Thoughts From Personal Perspective as...
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Ketogenic Diet - Working on Year 2
Part way into year two on a Ketogenic diet, breaking the diet only once and a while on business trips. The diet is basically mostly fat, some protein, with almost no carbs. Initially established in the...
View ArticleSelf-Correcting CPU Pipelines
Elaborating an idea which came up in a prior conversation...The aim is to make CPU programming as fun and easy as iterative run-time edit reload based GPU shader programming. Re-purpose the CPU page...
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September Trip to Iceland
LodgingStayed for six days around Reykjavik driving to other destinations, choosing a BnB via www.airbnb.com/s/Iceland. Planning most everything in advance proved very useful as the rental's wifi did...
View ArticleSelf-Correcting Part 2 or Rather a Rant on Why Extreme DoD
Related idea to the prior post, and as a partial reply to some twitter comments...A "modern" API effectively coupled to a language: everything revolves around calling "functions", which is a lock-in to...
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Tearaway Unfolded PS4 on Wega CRT HDTV
Using an iPad camera to take CRT shots didn't work out at all (severe moire patterns and noise reduction logic getting in the way), so the shots below don't accurately describe what it really looks...
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Bacon Wrapped Sour Cream
Typical breakfast for a fatatarian. Sour cream from grass fed cows + sharp cheddar cheese + garlic chopped. All wrapped in bacon which was fried in itself but not converted to charcoal like many...
View ArticleMinimal Operand CPU ISA For IPC
Dumping some thoughts on CPU design, one way to design for higher IPC (ILP) with something similar to a dual-stack forth machine... This started from the thought that it might be possible to apply...
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Tonemapping + Slot Mask Simulation
This started a while back as a hobby project attempting to produce a better and more realistic non-real-time CRT simulation for print media such as the The Bitmap Brothers: Universe book. It ended with...
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Resolution vs Super-Sampling vs Motion
The associated shadertoy: www.shadertoy.com/view/MtBXWwPremise of this post is that the costs associated with increasing resolution scale many times faster than just the increased area in pixels. Those...
View ArticleTRSAC 2015 Tubes (Updated When They Appear)
www.pouet.net/party.php?which=109&when=2015Function Over Fame by ExcessAarhus by Deluxe & Premium1k Windows Tracking by OnslaughtA+ by InquePsyltcipher by Loonies & LoopitLet it go! by...
View ArticleGLSL Language Evolution
Feel free to post in comments, I'm always attempting to collect feedback from other developers. Often the missing link between getting the priority for changes is community feedback!Curious where...
View ArticleThoughts on Minimal Filesystem Design
One of the problems that modern systems have which I suspect a minimal single user system would not have is ultra high file counts in a file system. I make this statement under the grounds that minimal...
View ArticleFiner Points of Living in the Raleigh North Carolina Area
Backyard BBQ Pit in Durham - Probably the best pulled pork I have ever had. Fatatarian friendly, can ask for extra fat, and classic Eastern North Carolina vinegar based sauce.Second Empire - Best...
View ArticlePS4 Dreams
Tech background from one month ago, Alex at Umbra Ignite 2015: Learning From Failure,
View ArticleRandom Thoughts on TS vs Alternatives
In the context of: Joshua Barczak - Thoughts on Texel Shaders.Here is where my mind gets stuck when I think about any kind of TS-like stage...Looking at a single compute unit in GCN,256 KB of vector...
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