If you want the neural shading goodies, not to worry-- my colleague Andrew Allan will be diving into those, also Wednesday (14:30).

try.shader-slang.org might suffice if syntax is what you're after? It's Slang rather than HLSL, but Slang's syntax is HLSL-flavored.

It's one of the scenes I remember best from Huck Finn, because it seemed really counterintuitive to me as a skirt-wearer!

That tidbit is stolen from Huckleberry Finn, so as far as I'm aware it was written by Mark Twain, and you are therefore correct.

I'm also going to stick my head into some of the interesting stuff going on with Gaussian splatting standards as much as I can (as an attendee, not a speaker).

If you want to track me down and pick my brain about Slang, Gaussian splatting, neural shading, or standardization, give me a ping! (6/6)

I'll also be speaking briefly at the Khronos Fast Forward. (5/6)

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

An Introduction to Neural Shading

Slang will feature heavily in this course that covers neural shading, all the way from fundamentals to the nitty-gritty of hardware acceleration and deployment. (4/6)

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...