demofox

Hello fellow kids. Where does one find the angst of nine inch nails and kmfdm in modern times?

I left EA yesterday and am now officially on summer vacation, woo! After a few weeks ill be joining Bolt Graphics, a startup GPU company, aiming to put the graphics back into graphics processing unit. It's a small company with a bold but respectable plan. Wish me / us luck! https://youtu.be/-fZM9wOvbh0?is=HRgzejXgpo5cd9Yw

Best part of being done with the job hunt: Uninstalling linkedin.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/116893028743364880 I was feeling despair and burn out professionally, starting ~a year ago. The AI cultism, that it was starving everything else, and personally feeling like I was at the apex of what I could hope for, and it wasnt that great (cant share why). The job hunt reminded me that small and mid sized companies are friendlier and more human. Also there are plenty of places that value things that arent ML, they are just not as loud about it. I believe things will be ok again for us. Just needs to hurry up!

A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU https://jcgt.org/published/0015/02/01/ New published paper! The premise is that you can offload polynomial evaluation to the texture sampling unit, which can be useful for improving execution times if you are compute bound. Readers of my blog may remember this from ~10 years ago. It has been improved with Seiler interpolation to be able to do higher order curves in lower dimensional textures.

The hero we deserve

Dude.

What To Learn To Be A Real Time graphics Programmer https://blog.demofox.org/2026/07/01/what-to-learn-to-be-a-graphics-programmer/ I wrote this up over lunch and it's surprisingly popular so sharing over here too.

@moriel@chaosfem.tw also that thing where you have a dead twin inside of you

Last night I dreamed of "Catalina Chicken". I described it to my wife and we cooked it for dinner.

Arithmetic derivative. What?! https://youtu.be/lh1qbp7LpFU?is=6Jf98-iWPIQySV_P

@gleick or as Eddie Izard said "in a ditch, covered on petrol, on fire" is a good ending

@mcc@mastodon.social the design is very human

@grumpygamer tech bros ruined everything. It's terrible. 😿

@rossgrady yeah. People who think UBI will naturally fall out of this are so damn naive.

@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz the policy change was just an update to the tos that the games are leased instead of owned

@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz steam recently made it so you dont buy games from them anymore, you lease them. That bugs me quite a bit.

@bagder at my first professional game dev job in ~2006 I used libcurl to make our game talk to a web server for UGC uploads and downloads. At my current game dev job I'm using libcurl to talk to a web service for internal telemetry of a game dev tool. Thanks so much for the great library Daniel :)

@arstechnica national security. What the hell.

@jalefkowit@vmst.io they don't even see it as broken either. They see it as a personal failing and say things like "im just not very good with technology". It's really sad.

@Phosphenes @gleick I wouldnt even be mad

@lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place random comment in case it helps and you didnt already know - rational splines aka splines with weights per control point are just one curve divided by another, but gain a lot of power - like being able to represent conic sections.

@castano@mastodon.gamedev.place that's neat. Hack the planet

@rzeta0 thanks Tariq. I hope you enjoy it. It's fun and interesting stuff imo!! Let me know what you think.

@georgetakei that may take a while. Not even joking, that is going to be a lot of work to sort out and correct.

@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place yeah that makes sense. Ive heard from Europeans that those islands are pretty amazing!

@garretpolk@mastodon.gamedev.place my free time is very sporadic and may be interrupted at any point. Single player games are best for me :)

@rhoot@mastodon.gamedev.place from what I understand, the story will emerge as development continues, so it's EA but also kind of episodic releases? Idk. Im looking forward to it

@slembcke@mastodon.gamedev.place I may do the same, idk 😂

@rzeta0 when you say locally random but globally uniform, it makes me think of white noise which is uniform at the limit, but not before then. But I get what you mean :) Blue noise is also disordered hyperuniformity, and low discrepancy sequences are ordered hyperuniformity which relate to crystals.

@jonesmurphy @georgetakei yeah..smdh

@jonesmurphy @georgetakei ive seen it with my own eyes. It's true man.

@justdaveisfine@mastodon.gamedev.place same

@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place the locals didnt say it was cold but they said they could feel that it was winter 😂

@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place you should go. You will not be disappointed!

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems definitely.

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net something that has always annoyed me is tv shows dont aim to tell good stories, just keep you coming back. It's "capitalist optimization" taken too far, like so mamy other things.

@cwebber@social.coop it's always been an icarus thing imo!

@nikitonsky@mastodon.online followed by the robot cutting itself as punishment?

@antopatriarca@mathstodon.xyz what are your plans from here?

@antopatriarca@mathstodon.xyz a person i worked with at EA left quantum chromodynamics to come (back) to game dev. He walks circles around everyone in the research group mathematically, while also being friendly, open minded and creative. Maybe that will be you in a few years if you decide to come back after things normalize :P

@ibm_m@mastodon.social @arstechnica@mastodon.social and the person telling them that meant ideologically but it was taken literally 😂

@NZChineseGenealogy@mastodon.nz I wasnt expecting the ending, real interesting perspective.

@donni@mastodon.social you really wonder about the people who are. What the hell is wrong with them? The loop closes