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aras, 12 hours ago to random

Remember Collada? Yeah the format is pretty much dead at this point, but Blender still has it (because of Sketchup, Chief Architect, Bricklink Studio etc.). However it felt increasingly uncomfortable to continue using OpenCollada (that embeds old 3rd party libraries with several dozen known security issues). So here's a "cleanup fork" of OpenCollada that gets rid of the security issues part (but also gets rid of everything Blender does not need). https://github.com/aras-p/OpenCOLLADA

aras, 4 days ago to Playdate

Because no one stopped me, I ported "Everybody Wants to Crank the World" #playdate demo to PC (Windows/Mac). https://github.com/aras-p/demo-pd-cranktheworld/pull/1 :playdate: :demoscene:

Using Sokol libraries by @floooh to do most of heavy lifting.

Fun fact: while the demo is running, it takes up as much CPU time as the windows task manager on my PC.

aras, 6 days ago to Playdate

Short blog post about "Everybody Wants to Crank the World", a #playdate #demoscene demo I made recently https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/05/20/Crank-the-World-Playdate-demo/

Calculating only some pixels both spatially and temporally is pretty much the same as DLSS, right? :P

aras, 7 days ago to random

0x2B or 43

aras, 10 days ago to random

Oh cool, RGB9E5 render target format is coming to PC GPUs? I know that Apple GPUs could render to it for a number of years by now, nice to see wider adoption. Curious to see which GPUs exactly can do it. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/agility-sdk-1-614-0/

aras, 15 days ago to demoscene

"Everybody Wants to Crank the World", a :demoscene: demo for :playdate:
@playdate. Took 4th place at @outline! #demoscene #playdate #outlinedemoparty

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjAKiwQxrQI
Playdate binary: https://aras-p.info/files/demos/2024/Nesnausk_CrankTheWorld-20240421.zip
Source code: https://github.com/aras-p/demo-pd-cranktheworld

Maybe I should write a short blog post about development for playdate, or somesuch. It is quite fun!

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aras, 16 days ago to random

"ZH3: Quadratic Zonal Harmonics" by @torust et al is pretty cool! Looks like much better quality than linear spherical harmonics, at same storage cost. #i3d2024 https://torust.me/ZH3.pdf

aras, 19 days ago to blender

I accidentally implemented blurred shadows and outlines for Text Strips in #blender sequencer. In for Blender 4.2! https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121478

aras, 19 days ago to Playdate

Alright, demo submission done. Now we wait! :playdate: :demoscene: #playdate #demoscene

aras, 25 days ago to random

So, Unity’s new CEO is from Zynga and EA (and more recently, Fitbit). Mkay, mkay.😢 https://investors.unity.com/news/news-details/2024/Unity-Appoints-Matthew-Bromberg-as-New-CEO/default.aspx

aras, 29 days ago to random

Real or physically based rendered? (thx @mattpharr)

aras, 29 days ago to random

"Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years" by @logloggames is good. https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

And only half of that is related to Rust! The rest are very good points about hype cycles, tech zealotry, search for silver bullets, being constantly sidetracked by shiny interesting tech instead of solving a problem, etc. etc. Very long, but also very good read.

aras, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Ok, the fact that the "AI" (NPU) chip controller inside Intel's new Meteor Lake CPUs uses SPARC instruction set (from 1990?) was not on my bingo cards for this year. https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/04/22/intel-meteor-lakes-npu/

aras, 1 month ago to random

Yesterday was full of gaussian splatting rendering artifacts.

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aras, 1 month ago to random

Current project size breakdown:

• 6kb misc images
• 15kb executable code
• 96kb one blue noise texture
• 3150kb music track

Size budgeting is my passion!

aras, 1 month ago to random

Source files in current project: various_tests.c, stuff.c. Hey it is my project, I make the rules! (or lack of the rules)

aras, 1 month ago to Playdate

"The Playdate Story: What Was it Like to Make Handheld Video Game System Hardware?" GDC talk by @cabel is illuminating and very entertaining. (free on GDC vault!) https://gdcvault.com/play/1034707/The-Playdate-Story-What-Was #playdate

aras, 1 month ago to random

"Coding Adventure: Rendering Text" by @sebastianlague is excellent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO83KQuuZvg

aras, 1 month ago to random

"Apple Silicon CPU Optimization Guide" looks pretty good! https://developer.apple.com/download/apple-silicon-cpu-optimization-guide/ (via @natbro)

aras, 1 month ago to random

Was a good morning. #dogstodon

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aras, 1 month ago to random

If by chance you noticed that Blender is worse since last November for some reason: this is the reason! :)

aras, 1 month ago to random

How come everyone's on Visual Studio 2022, but pretty much no one is using Visual Loft 2022?

aras, 1 month ago to random

You know that Sia/Guetta song that goes like,

“Rotate me down, no gimbal lock
I am quaternion”

Right?

aras, 1 month ago to random

Jpegli: new JPG encoder library that achieves same visual quality with smaller file sizes. https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli-new-jpeg-coding-library.html

aras, 1 month ago to random

Only people who worked at Unity would ever understand this.