I wrote a thing...
"10 years of Dear ImGui" (long post) 🎉
github.com/ocornut/imgu...

Recordings for Graphics Programming Conference 2024 are now up. The lineup is packed with amazing talks ranging from rendering for games like Tiny Glade, Hades, and Baldur’s Gate 3, to even a talk on designing your own GPU!

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

tiny_bvh.h reached version 1.0.0!
github.com/jbikker/tiny...
To celebrate, this version has a lot of new features:
* New speedtest tool, with traversal kernel validation and shadow ray reporting
* Optimized BVH now outperforms Embree (not fair, that's not Embrees best builder, to be cont.)

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My latest article is about one of my favorite techniques in graphics - Müller's method of Polar Decomposition.

It also details some variations, including one which is ~2x faster to compute with more regular convergence.

theorangeduck.com/page/variati...

I'm keeping updated this super comprehensive collection of papers (by tech and by year), from the Kajiya eq to latest differential and neural approaches, passing by RRT and MC theories | As before, repost if you think it may be useful to others.

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Essential learning: intro-to-restir.cwyman.org

A few years ago I wrote about how to create good manipulators for a 3d editor. I chose an immediate mode design, so that manipulators graphics is generated per frame and can animate and react to the user actions.

maxliani.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/o...

Digital Dragons 2024 Technical Presentation recordings, including several rendering related ones t.co/cef7qJqeFN

This is getting a lot of new attention. If you like this topic, I have a newer blog post on how to make a low discrepancy shuffle iterator.
blog.demofox.org/2024/05/19/a...

For folks that know me as "the blue noise guy", I've put together a 50 minute video that talks about many of the things I've learned in my ~decade long dive into noise and related topics - up to and including our latest paper published days ago at I3D.
Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=teth...

Tool to visualise samples drawn from various distributions for some intuition into how they are laid out spatially wkjarosz.github.io/SamplinSafari/. Eg samples from a uniform distribution are not as uniform as one might think and prone to clustering compared to a low discrepancy one like Hammersley

Great collection of resources for GPU architecture and optimisation gist.github.com/silvesthu/50...

Worked some more on my path tracer this evening. Having a lot of fun building small test scenes :)

New in tiny_bvh.h today:
- 4/8-wide BVH layout
- Conversion (collapse) from BVH2 to BVH4/8, Wald-style
- Basic intersect functions for both layouts.
BVH4 will primarily feed a fast OpenCL intersection function, but the CPU may also benefit. BVH8 will be used for CWBVH.
github.com/jbikker/tiny...

The next 3 articles in my CPU rasterizer tutorial series are done! These are all about adding full 3D support, with perspective projection, perspective interpolation, triangle clipping, and a depth buffer.
lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/i...

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Hi, my name is Jacco Bikker, I teach game C/C++ and graphics at Breda University.
Blog (mostly technical articles): jacco.ompf2.com/author/jbikk...
Github: github.com/jbikker
Currently working on tiny_bvh.h! Other projects: Lighthouse 2 path tracer, voxel rendering.