Andrew Willmott
@andrewwillmott.bsky.social
Kiwi in the UK by way of the US
Graphics / Systems / R&D
Work: Helioflow, Odyssey, Wayve, Football Manager, Spore, SimCity, Sims
https://github.com/andrewwillmott
https://www.andrewwillmott.com
https://soundcloud.com/radiator-8/albums
Graphics / Systems / R&D
Work: Helioflow, Odyssey, Wayve, Football Manager, Spore, SimCity, Sims
https://github.com/andrewwillmott
https://www.andrewwillmott.com
https://soundcloud.com/radiator-8/albums
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I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says
Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
HE HATES BEES
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM
HE HATES BEES
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1) Today (23:59) is the deadline for submitting responses to the Home Office "consultation" on their plans to make life a lot more difficult for foreigners living in the UK: www.gov.uk/government/c...
A Fairer Pathway to Settlement: statement and accompanying consultation on earned settlement (accessible)
www.gov.uk
February 12, 2026 at 11:01 AM
1) Today (23:59) is the deadline for submitting responses to the Home Office "consultation" on their plans to make life a lot more difficult for foreigners living in the UK: www.gov.uk/government/c...
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i am sorry that my choice of cushion has offended some people in the UK and Europe and caused concern
February 12, 2026 at 12:22 PM
i am sorry that my choice of cushion has offended some people in the UK and Europe and caused concern
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In 2026, I reprise my role as High-Performance Graphics papers chair, joined by Markus Kettunen.
The papers deadline is 8 weeks from now. Submit your performance-oriented graphics research and present it in LA, just before SIGGRAPH (July 17-19 2026)!
www.highperformancegraphics.org/2026/call-fo...
The papers deadline is 8 weeks from now. Submit your performance-oriented graphics research and present it in LA, just before SIGGRAPH (July 17-19 2026)!
www.highperformancegraphics.org/2026/call-fo...
High-Performance Graphics 2026 CFP
High-Performance Graphics 2026 Call for Participation
www.highperformancegraphics.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:04 PM
In 2026, I reprise my role as High-Performance Graphics papers chair, joined by Markus Kettunen.
The papers deadline is 8 weeks from now. Submit your performance-oriented graphics research and present it in LA, just before SIGGRAPH (July 17-19 2026)!
www.highperformancegraphics.org/2026/call-fo...
The papers deadline is 8 weeks from now. Submit your performance-oriented graphics research and present it in LA, just before SIGGRAPH (July 17-19 2026)!
www.highperformancegraphics.org/2026/call-fo...
I find this fascinating, given certain conversations going on in VFX and games a year ago.
Sora 2 apparently cost something like $5 billion to run every year and so far made OpenAI around $1.4 million.
February 11, 2026 at 12:23 PM
I find this fascinating, given certain conversations going on in VFX and games a year ago.
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I urge you to fill in this consultation if you can - with this very helpful support from Amnesty International - although AND because ! it is heart-breaking that this country has sunk so low that Amnesty suggest in a number of cases to provide no answer as the terms of the question are so evil
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
February 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I urge you to fill in this consultation if you can - with this very helpful support from Amnesty International - although AND because ! it is heart-breaking that this country has sunk so low that Amnesty suggest in a number of cases to provide no answer as the terms of the question are so evil
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Here are some techniques I discovered through 14 years of shader programming:
February 10, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Here are some techniques I discovered through 14 years of shader programming:
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For someone who wants to end working from home, Cameo Nigel can be strangely productive if there’s an easy payday in it for him 😬
February 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
For someone who wants to end working from home, Cameo Nigel can be strangely productive if there’s an easy payday in it for him 😬
Evri is such an endless scam of a company that you have to ask, what are they really doing? Is it a front for a drug smuggling operation? Money laundering?
There must be some point to them, other than pretending to deliver packages, that justifies their existence. Or am I just being naive.
There must be some point to them, other than pretending to deliver packages, that justifies their existence. Or am I just being naive.
February 10, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Evri is such an endless scam of a company that you have to ask, what are they really doing? Is it a front for a drug smuggling operation? Money laundering?
There must be some point to them, other than pretending to deliver packages, that justifies their existence. Or am I just being naive.
There must be some point to them, other than pretending to deliver packages, that justifies their existence. Or am I just being naive.
Everybody outside the USA.
this is too many captains. you can't all be captains. send some of these homies to the sideline
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Everybody outside the USA.
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The French once again taking no bullshit.
February 8, 2026 at 9:40 PM
The French once again taking no bullshit.
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I like the govt's plan to ban smartphones and social media in schools but nobody's mentioned the glaring hole in it
![Scene is a spoof TV news item. The NEWSREADER is talking to camera from behind the desk.
NEWSREADER:
Now, here to discuss the smartphone ban in schools…
We have with us, YouTube Shorts.
[Pull back to show an anthropomorphised version of the YOUTUBE SHORTS screen, sat in the interviewee's chair across from the newsreader]
NEWSREADER:
Good morning.
YOUTUBE SHORTS:
Hi
NEWSREADER:
You Tube Shorts, you work in education...
YOUTUBE SHORTS:
Yes.
I work in schools across the country teaching Epic Dance
Fail, Try Not To Cringe Challenge and Al Slop.
NEWSREADER:
And will the proposed phone ban limit your ability to do your job?
YOUTUBE SHORTS:
No.
I'll still be on all school laptops because YouTube is vaguely educational and Google have made me impossible to turn off.
NEWSREADER:
So children are being asked to do their homework on...
...the most advanced distraction machine ever created?
YOUTUBE SHORTS:
Well-
I think a more constructive way to frame that question might be:
Can IShowSpeed jump over a moving Lamborghini?
[The newsreader silently looks at the screen on YOUTUBE SHORTS's front, where a YouTuber jumps over a Lamborghini. This continues for an awkward beat]
NEWSREADER:
Woah.
NEWSREADER [returning to awareness]:
What were we talking about?
YOUTUBE SHORTS [pointing at the next Short which has appeared on its own front]:
Look at this fat dog.
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February 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
I like the govt's plan to ban smartphones and social media in schools but nobody's mentioned the glaring hole in it
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Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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February 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
1/
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
1/
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
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Somewhat happy with progress on my crappy ad hoc map renderer. Labels are hard.
February 8, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Somewhat happy with progress on my crappy ad hoc map renderer. Labels are hard.
Real Snowpiecer vibes here.
Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD.
To *Italy*.
To *Italy*.
February 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Real Snowpiecer vibes here.
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so a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences
Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter
Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter
UPDATE: I've had a response from the Cabinet Office!
"the statistics cited ‘19.2 million British citizens registered with X and 10.8 million families using the platform’ were provided by OmniGov, the government's media buying agency, who received this data directly from X itself."
"the statistics cited ‘19.2 million British citizens registered with X and 10.8 million families using the platform’ were provided by OmniGov, the government's media buying agency, who received this data directly from X itself."
February 6, 2026 at 9:50 AM
so a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences
Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter
Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter
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While working on spark.js, I realized that common normal map compression formats weren’t supported in popular frameworks like three.js. I added the necessary support to three.js and wrote an article to shed some light on the topic:
ludicon.com/castano/blog...
#webgpu #webgl #threejs #sparkjs
ludicon.com/castano/blog...
#webgpu #webgl #threejs #sparkjs
Normal Map Compression Revisited – Ignacio Castaño
www.ludicon.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:04 AM
While working on spark.js, I realized that common normal map compression formats weren’t supported in popular frameworks like three.js. I added the necessary support to three.js and wrote an article to shed some light on the topic:
ludicon.com/castano/blog...
#webgpu #webgl #threejs #sparkjs
ludicon.com/castano/blog...
#webgpu #webgl #threejs #sparkjs
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That would be Will Lewis. Knighted, inevitably, by Boris Johnson.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 6:54 PM
That would be Will Lewis. Knighted, inevitably, by Boris Johnson.
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You probably know that ICE agents shot Renee Good.
You should also know what happened next.
You should also know what happened next.
Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
February 3, 2026 at 11:12 PM
You probably know that ICE agents shot Renee Good.
You should also know what happened next.
You should also know what happened next.
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Marcin Zalewski informed me that his blog post on real-time hair rendering using ray tracing is now available:
mmzala.github.io/blog/hair-ge...
This is nice work, in which he compares NVidia's hardware accelerated hair to several alternatives, including Reshetov's Phantom Ray Hair Intersector.
mmzala.github.io/blog/hair-ge...
This is nice work, in which he compares NVidia's hardware accelerated hair to several alternatives, including Reshetov's Phantom Ray Hair Intersector.
February 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Marcin Zalewski informed me that his blog post on real-time hair rendering using ray tracing is now available:
mmzala.github.io/blog/hair-ge...
This is nice work, in which he compares NVidia's hardware accelerated hair to several alternatives, including Reshetov's Phantom Ray Hair Intersector.
mmzala.github.io/blog/hair-ge...
This is nice work, in which he compares NVidia's hardware accelerated hair to several alternatives, including Reshetov's Phantom Ray Hair Intersector.
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I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...
Nanite Tessellation
Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...
graphicrants.blogspot.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...
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From pub poets to pine martens, via Jan Morris and Owain Glyndŵr: a joyous piece by Jon Gower on Machynlleth. What a town it is! So proud to be part of it.
nation.cymru/feature/maki...
nation.cymru/feature/maki...
Making Tracks: Machynlleth
Jon Gower In A Machynlleth Triad the travel writer Jan Morris suggests that Machynlleth, known by locals as Mach, “seems to stand there beside its river thoughtfully, perhaps just a little cynically, ...
nation.cymru
February 2, 2026 at 8:01 AM
From pub poets to pine martens, via Jan Morris and Owain Glyndŵr: a joyous piece by Jon Gower on Machynlleth. What a town it is! So proud to be part of it.
nation.cymru/feature/maki...
nation.cymru/feature/maki...