Blogs about Graphics

Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my …

We all know how the internet works—lots of “hot takes,” polarizing opinions, trolling, and ignorance. Recently, everyone has opinions on AI and LLMs/GenAI in particular. I won’t focus here on “gold rush” influencers, bad grifters, …

Saw this in Marius Watz’s Twitter feed and wanted to make a note of it. "plotter.vision is a single-serving website that lets you upload 3D STL files, interactively position them, and then renders them with …

Back in the GAN days most of my time was spent playing with famous models like StyleGAN and pix2pix. But another of my favourite models, which was much less well known, was Swapping Autoencoder, a …

Last week I gave a talk about tiny code for Nerd Nite in Austin Texas! This is a more refined version of my previous talk and a great introduction to creative coding and recreational programming. …

David García Goñi released a brand new version of Elektroid, a sample and MIDI device manager for devices by Elektron, Arturia, Eventide, Moog, and Novation. New features in this version: Audio recording Initial editing of …

finally finished the FE alphabet challenge… started on a whim a few weeks ago and it was pretty neat seeing how the list of favorites have evolved over the last twenty years.

Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York, NY, 2024

A recent paper of mine performs an intersection test in a ray tracing shader. To this end, I had to compute all real roots of a polynomial of moderately high degree (10 to 26). Overall, …

A week ago I returned from a week’s trip to central New South Wales in Australia, driving from Sydney down to (almost!) Batemans Bay, then up again to Newcastle and then back to Sydney. The …

It’s been a while! Last time, I went over how the 3-stream Huffman decoders in Oodle Data work. The 3-stream layout is what we originally went with. It gives near-ideal performance on the last game …

This article was updated. Jump to Update 1. Hey lovely people! I’m working on a small game and here are some techniques I used to create sprites and effects. Play Demo & Buy on Steam …

In my earlier post Time Uniform For CSS Animation, I took a note about a way to do CSS animations with time ticks instead of keyframes. It was limited applicable because CSS lacked the ability …