MAK
@makramd.bsky.social
⚠️Actively looking for work⚠️
Freelance & Consulting work.
Photogrammetry
Environmental tech artist
GFX & rendering historian
http://www.artstation.com/makram
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@makram
Freelance & Consulting work.
Photogrammetry
Environmental tech artist
GFX & rendering historian
http://www.artstation.com/makram
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@makram
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MAK
@makramd.bsky.social
· Dec 17
Been a while since I did some photogrammetry based work & man was I rusty. No fancy Structured light/Photometry setup. Just n old Sony ILC-E6000 with its 16-50 kit lens in horrendous lighting conditions and everything else done by hand (cleaning/sculpting, materials creation etc).
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This is on a 3770K system, but CPU is not that important as a Pentium 4+Voodoo 5 actually runs faster:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu82...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu82...
Meshlet Rendering on Voodoo 5
YouTube video by Mustafa Korkmaz
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
This is on a 3770K system, but CPU is not that important as a Pentium 4+Voodoo 5 actually runs faster:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu82...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu82...
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As my holiday project, I went back to my retro engine project after a long time. Decided to add something modern, so here's meshlet rendering on Voodoo 2:
youtu.be/VOv8JqUZstQ
youtu.be/VOv8JqUZstQ
Meshlet Rendering on Voodoo 2
YouTube video by Mustafa Korkmaz
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
As my holiday project, I went back to my retro engine project after a long time. Decided to add something modern, so here's meshlet rendering on Voodoo 2:
youtu.be/VOv8JqUZstQ
youtu.be/VOv8JqUZstQ
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Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
January 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
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Yeah I was fooled for a bit at first by the cool visualizations, but after reading it some more I would actively tell people to avoid this article because of the misinformation.
December 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Yeah I was fooled for a bit at first by the cool visualizations, but after reading it some more I would actively tell people to avoid this article because of the misinformation.
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This is almost certainly LLM generated. It's not just a copy-edit either; some of the text seems semi accurate, some things seem like half-truths, and some is just nonsensical.
Maybe this helps someone understand the cache mechanics, but I'd rather see expert human written content on the subject.
Maybe this helps someone understand the cache mechanics, but I'd rather see expert human written content on the subject.
December 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is almost certainly LLM generated. It's not just a copy-edit either; some of the text seems semi accurate, some things seem like half-truths, and some is just nonsensical.
Maybe this helps someone understand the cache mechanics, but I'd rather see expert human written content on the subject.
Maybe this helps someone understand the cache mechanics, but I'd rather see expert human written content on the subject.
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I've seen this over a decade ago for the first time and it's becoming more and more relevant today.
This aged better than most single malts.
youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...
This aged better than most single malts.
youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...
Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence
YouTube video by Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I've seen this over a decade ago for the first time and it's becoming more and more relevant today.
This aged better than most single malts.
youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...
This aged better than most single malts.
youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...
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December 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances in RT Rendering: Megalights: Stochastic Direct Lighting in Unreal Engine 5
youtu.be/dmmN8_c8Tb0?...
youtu.be/dmmN8_c8Tb0?...
SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances in RT Rendering: Megalights: Stochastic Direct Lighting in Unreal Engine 5
YouTube video by SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances in RT Rendering: Megalights: Stochastic Direct Lighting in Unreal Engine 5
youtu.be/dmmN8_c8Tb0?...
youtu.be/dmmN8_c8Tb0?...
2025 Advances in RT Rendering: RT Subsurface Scattering via Hybrid RESTIR-Path Tracing & Diffusion
youtu.be/uIYzBb_qbm8?...
youtu.be/uIYzBb_qbm8?...
2025 Advances in RT Rendering: RT Subsurface Scattering via Hybrid RESTIR-Path Tracing & Diffusion
YouTube video by SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
2025 Advances in RT Rendering: RT Subsurface Scattering via Hybrid RESTIR-Path Tracing & Diffusion
youtu.be/uIYzBb_qbm8?...
youtu.be/uIYzBb_qbm8?...
SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination
youtu.be/VTrdeqMMMK0?...
youtu.be/VTrdeqMMMK0?...
SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination
YouTube video by SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination
youtu.be/VTrdeqMMMK0?...
youtu.be/VTrdeqMMMK0?...
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Here's my top 9 for 2025. This has been a very difficult year both personally & for games / films as we saw even more job losses. But it's time to stop waiting for my future to find me, & it's time to make my own future. More to come soon. In the meantime, I wish everyone the very best end of year!
December 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Here's my top 9 for 2025. This has been a very difficult year both personally & for games / films as we saw even more job losses. But it's time to stop waiting for my future to find me, & it's time to make my own future. More to come soon. In the meantime, I wish everyone the very best end of year!
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Youtube has just gifted me the wildest recommendation for Xmas 😳😂😅
youtu.be/AbT1yJYyAjM?...
youtu.be/AbT1yJYyAjM?...
Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) - The Immortals [Speed Bag Cover]
YouTube video by Speedbag Bard
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Youtube has just gifted me the wildest recommendation for Xmas 😳😂😅
youtu.be/AbT1yJYyAjM?...
youtu.be/AbT1yJYyAjM?...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Have recently been obsessed with (again) optimizing my "low-mid size" bitonic GPU sorter even more than it was.
The current state summerized in the images below for a 7900 XTX for the red team and a 4090 for the green team.
For once the former handedly beats the latter across the board!
The current state summerized in the images below for a 7900 XTX for the red team and a 4090 for the green team.
For once the former handedly beats the latter across the board!
December 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Have recently been obsessed with (again) optimizing my "low-mid size" bitonic GPU sorter even more than it was.
The current state summerized in the images below for a 7900 XTX for the red team and a 4090 for the green team.
For once the former handedly beats the latter across the board!
The current state summerized in the images below for a 7900 XTX for the red team and a 4090 for the green team.
For once the former handedly beats the latter across the board!
This looks amazing!
youtu.be/jAAyJFBzG4k?...
youtu.be/jAAyJFBzG4k?...
GTA x Gymkhana One: Los Santos
YouTube video by IceVip
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This looks amazing!
youtu.be/jAAyJFBzG4k?...
youtu.be/jAAyJFBzG4k?...
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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I got the first post about direct lighting material occlusion up on my blog. On this one I go over the commonly used micro-occlusion approach and its limitations, and I start digging into micro-shadowing as an improvement.
irradiance.ca/posts/micros...
irradiance.ca/posts/micros...
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I got the first post about direct lighting material occlusion up on my blog. On this one I go over the commonly used micro-occlusion approach and its limitations, and I start digging into micro-shadowing as an improvement.
irradiance.ca/posts/micros...
irradiance.ca/posts/micros...
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Over the past two months, I’ve been diving into the Essence morph tech we built for Keeper - how we got here, how it works and some neat-looking results. I’m really proud of this system (and the game in general), and I hope you’ve enjoyed learning more about it. :)
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Over the past two months, I’ve been diving into the Essence morph tech we built for Keeper - how we got here, how it works and some neat-looking results. I’m really proud of this system (and the game in general), and I hope you’ve enjoyed learning more about it. :)
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So, if a Normal Map can make something flat imply the direction of the light - maybe our game could have lighting from all directions! (4/7)
December 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
So, if a Normal Map can make something flat imply the direction of the light - maybe our game could have lighting from all directions! (4/7)
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Our upcoming game The Hearth and Harbour is fully 2D, but with some neat tricks we’ve made it look 3D. Ethan, our environment artist, did this with a special type of texture called a Normal Map. (Thread! 1/7)
December 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Our upcoming game The Hearth and Harbour is fully 2D, but with some neat tricks we’ve made it look 3D. Ethan, our environment artist, did this with a special type of texture called a Normal Map. (Thread! 1/7)
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The Eroded Settlement and the Graverobber Knight
December 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Eroded Settlement and the Graverobber Knight
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The morph of the week is the "nightmare bridge". Nick did the initial pass and I tweaked the morph to make it more weird and "tentacely". This whole sequence is one of my favorites in the game.
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The morph of the week is the "nightmare bridge". Nick did the initial pass and I tweaked the morph to make it more weird and "tentacely". This whole sequence is one of my favorites in the game.