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mtothevizzah

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A human who makes games and preserves the outdoors.
Fellow at Activision, President at Falmouth Land Trust.
Maine.

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dougbinks, to random
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A good reason to use colour rather than color in your code is that colour has the same number of letters as both albedo and normal so you can align your code better.

mtothevizzah,
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@dougbinks col, alb, nor enter the chat.

BartWronski, to random
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I am excited to finally share our recent paper "Filtering After Shading With Stochastic Texture Filtering" (with Matt Pharr, @marcosalvi, and Marcos Fajardo), published at ACM I3D'24 / PACM CGIT, where we won the best paper award! 1/N

mtothevizzah,
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@BartWronski @aras @demofox It may be Sept or Oct, will let you know. Michal and I have also talked about doing a bike-packing trip across Scotland, we'll see what happens, and go bug @neil if we do…

mtothevizzah,
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@aras @BartWronski @demofox I'm also serious, come hang out in Portland with Wade & I and work for a bit on whatever out of our office. Alternatively, I'm still trying to get out to Poland at some point and take a motorcycle trip with Drobot up to your neck of the woods.

mtothevizzah,
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@iralmeida @BartWronski @aras @demofox @wadeb naturally. Amsterdam is still on my hit list for Europe as well!

mtothevizzah, to random
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Advent of REAC 2024, day three! Our third featured abstract from https://enginearchitecture.org/2024.htm#3:

Stephen McAuley
Matt Pettineo (@mjp)
Santa Monica Studio
Maya as Editor: The game development approach of Santa Monica Studio

If you haven’t registered for REAC 2024 yet, please do so here https://forms.gle/kPhCDtGaD2tiKyxx9.

molly0xfff, to Dogs
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his joy for springtime is contagious

mtothevizzah,
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@molly0xfff reporting in from Maine.

video/mp4

mtothevizzah, to random
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Please join us for the 2024 edition of the Rendering Engine Architecture Conference, which will take place remotely but live on the mornings of June 3rd and 4th. Registration is open, we look forward to sharing some wonderful talks from EA, Remedy, 4A, Santa Monica Studio, Blizzard, and Godot!

https://www.enginearchitecture.org/2024.htm

mirror2mask, to random
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I’m thrilled to share some exciting news – I’m stepping into the role of Chief Technology Officer at Activision! It’s truly an honor to join this trailblazing team. Having been a long time fan of the Activision teams and the innovations for the Call of Duty franchise - I’m excited to be a part of a team that continues to push the boundaries in the gaming industry. I can’t wait to connect with all the incredible people at Activision in the coming weeks and for all the exciting adventures ahead!

mtothevizzah,
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@aras @mirror2mask same group, Natasha is my successor! I’m returning to more granular engineering problems.

castano, to random
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I don't get why IHVs hide their tools within layers of security and identity validation steps, that then don't work as intended and prevent developers from using those tools. What are they trying to protect?
On the other hand, AMD's approach is so refreshing.

mtothevizzah,
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@castano My assumption is that devrel folks have a hard time showing impact for career progression, and tracking all relationships in this way allows them to show value to superiors.
Until eventually we all stop using VTune as soon as someone writes something vaguely superior that can just be run like a standard portable app, and then they panic.

mtothevizzah, to random
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The final set of slides is posted fro the 2023 Rendering Engine Architecture Conference (REAC)! Check out talks from Charlie Birtwistle and Francois Durand's of Activision, and Dan Baker of Oxide Games. http://enginearchitecture.realtimerendering.com/2023_conference/

NOTimothyLottes, to random
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Another important thread, if you use atomicAdd() the compiler is likely murdering your performance. This will cover the why and how to workaround ...

mtothevizzah,
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@NOTimothyLottes @neilhenning @castano This whole thread is PTSD from all the early GCN ISA work we did over ten years ago. (We also have/had a GDS based work distributor, to your earlier post, Tim.) I put together a presentation with a 24 page handout for it and gave it at various ATVI studios as well as Bungie, I wonder if I'll ever be allowed to post it publicly some day. Lots of stuff that Wade, Paul Edelstein, and Johan Kohler worked through.

mtothevizzah, to random
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What year is this, Virgin Atlantic.

mtothevizzah, to random
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It’s the Advent of REAC 2024! Day one, our first abstract is now live at https://enginearchitecture.org/2024.htm. We’re pleased to announce:

Tatu Aalto
Remedy Entertainment
Modernizing geometry rendering in Alan Wake 2

If you haven’t registered for REAC 2024 yet, please do so here https://forms.gle/kPhCDtGaD2tiKyxx9.

mtothevizzah, to random
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First set of slides are up from REAC 2023!
https://enginearchitecture.realtimerendering.com/2023_conference/

mtothevizzah, to random
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Word of the day: inclement. Not used in many scenarios outside of weather related delays.

Snow in Falmouth
Snow in Falmouth

mtothevizzah, to random
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Every time I add an alt text to an image I consider the likelihood it will be used by someone visually impaired vs folded into a training set for an ML tool.

mtothevizzah, to random
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Today's jam, Horace Silver Quintet, Song for My Father. Yes, that is Billy Cobham on drums. And yes, Steely Dan stole that piano bass line for a famous intro line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFjmWI-d6d4

mtothevizzah, to random
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Morning egg selection.

mtothevizzah,
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@neilhenning bonus rooster as well.

mtothevizzah, to random
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As someone who likes to understand how things work, I don't really find ML interesting, but I do like to dabble to understand what's going on. Wife and I were stuck on the last word in Spelling Bee yesterday, so I was curious how it would go...

mtothevizzah,
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Attempts to correct didn't prove very fruitful either. I like the use of "definitely".

mtothevizzah,
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As it scrolled by I felt like I was in the Shining or a cliched dystopian sci-fi novel. It was really committed to that answer:

mtothevizzah,
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I feel like it threw in the last seven-letter word just to fuck with me:

neilhenning, to random
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I can't be the only one that constantly has Time Machine on my mac fuck up doing backups. It's stuck in the Preparing to Backup -> YOU DIDN’T DO A BACKUP loop again.

I have a strong dislike for magic in software, especially when there isn't a fallback button to force something to happen and/or tell me why the fuck it can't. ARGH.

mtothevizzah,
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@neilhenning with synology as backing store once a year it just silently corrupts and you rebuild from scratch.

mtothevizzah, to random
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It's a little weird that "QuickTime Player" is still a thing. Who remembers QuickTime as a thing outside of us old people who lived back in the days before h.264 won? I should rename it "Smacker Player" or something.

mtothevizzah,
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Also it's a bit weird that it doesn't support modern features like... advance 30s, reverse 15s, etc. I feel the same way when I'm listening to music in the Apple ecosystem and want to use podcast style +/- time features to relisten to something, when I'm pedantically pointing out how great Nas is to my children.

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