I asked a group of 6 year olds to come up with a mantra to help us through life. They had some ideas. A THREAD

We're excited to share how we've been using Rust Language for 3D rendering at Embark Studios, and finally reveal a tiny glimpse of our creative platform! 🤩🦀 medium.com/embarkstudios/… Oh, and my toy rendering engine `kajiya` is now open source! 👀 Details in the article! 🔬

First Traverse Research blog post is up, this guide should be helpful to anyone trying replicate research done in older Mitsuba versions

I decided to release my ray-tracer into the wild and will carefully move it from private repo to the opened one. To make it possible and gain some motivation I've a opened GitHub Sponsors, which is now live. github.com/sponsors/serge… There you will find a link to "etx-tracer" repo

How much boilerplate code you need to write a ray-tracer? A short overview of a ray-tracer structure. sergeyreznik.github.io/rtcode/index.h…

We just published a blog post about the bindless setup in DirectX 12 and Vulkan that we use in our Rust graphics prototyping framework by Darius Bouma, part 1 / 3 blog.traverseresearch.nl/bindless-rende…

I refuse to be delegated to the "skeptics box" in someone else's framing of a debate. Here is my response to Steven Johnson 's NYT Magazine article about LLMs and OpenAI. On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed link.medium.com/rag8kbGujpb

Two years ago I discovered scholarship arguing that AI is creating a new colonial world order. The idea haunted me & pushed me to investigate. Today I begin to release my findings: a culmination of reporting across five continents. Here’s my introduction. technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/104…

New Sponza scene available from Intel Graphics Research intel.com/content/www/us…

Very proud to have helped set this up! Kamen and Pete showed a lot about ISPC, how it's used in practice and explained low level details about ISPC and SIMD. Thanks @j_bikker for hosting!

Traverse Research is at SIGGRAPH Asia this year! Please come and say hello! We'll be talking about our neural materials and generally interested in meeting industry folk! We wrote a small blog post about the kind of things we've been doing lately too. blog.traverseresearch.nl/traverse-resea…

This year will be the first year in the history of Traverse Research that we'll have a booth at the GDC Expo! Please come and say hi if you're visiting!

Thesis update! Data structure by me, shading by Emilio Laiso

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 In this next blog post Jan explains how we manage rendering large crowds in our Breda engine. blog.traverseresearch.nl/ray-tracing-an…

🎇 🥂 Final blog post of the year! Darius Bouma Explains a whole bunch of tricks he pulled to get our Global Illumination system looking as sweet as it does! blog.traverseresearch.nl/dynamic-diffus…

Happy to see things coming together. Shadows are next! 🙌🏼

We present A Fresnel Model for Coated Materials at Eurographics this year, where we propose an analytical RGB model for rendering coated conductors. Our method provides improved accuracy of Fresnel reflectance in BRDFs. I'll be presenting this paper Wednesday at 9:00 in Megaron A