I worked for Jensen twice. I admired and trusted him. I consider myself a good teacher but used to attend quarterly meetings just to observe how he talked to try to absorb education techniques. But brilliant business decisions are his best talent. Here he is a quarter

Thread on Rethinking Transparency in the Age of Scaling TAAs [thread] ... [0] Scaling TAA's don't output depth, because one cannot composite well after foreground and background have been merged in a pixel due to {AA, DOF, or Motion Blur}

Technical talk on profilers with best in class guests! Dennis Dennis Gustafsson - the creator of profiler which has become RAD Telemetry and Ritesh Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma - cofounder building Superluminal profiler! These fine gentlemen have joined to discuss how profilers work under the hood and

Great read: "Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)" blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 418 - November 30th, 2025 jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-…

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 419 - December 7th, 2025 jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-…

youtu.be/vDByyuwT7Q4 - Gain an understanding of why PC game graphics pixel quality is stuck in the uncanny valley even in if shading and animation quality rise above

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 420 - December 14h, 2025 jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-…

Nice frame breakdown: youtube.com/watch?v=aB5qxp… - lots of engines miss out on pipelining 'fast' clears, best time to clear is right after last usage long before they are needed again

"State of GPU Hardware (End of Year 2025)", good summary of GPU feature support vs market share asawicki.info/articles/state…

SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances in RT Rendering - RT Subsurface Scattering via Hybrid RESTIR-Path Tracing & Diffusion presentation recording youtu.be/AtFBbMnUgoc?si…

Good read: "GPU Cache Hierarchy: Understanding L1, L2, and VRAM" charlesgrassi.dev/blog/gpu-cache…

MIT's "Street Fighting Mathematics" This course teaches the art of guessing results and solving problems without doing a proof or an exact calculation. Book: ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-098…

Highly recommended 🆓 PDF book: "Algorithms" by Jeff Erickson with many nice figures and exercises! 👉 jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algor… Nice subtle cover page design too!

"Improving Direct Lighting Material Occlusion - Part 1", discussing micro-occlusion for direct lighting, Naughty Dog's and Activision approaches and alternatives irradiance.ca/posts/microsha…

My "How to Vulkan in 2026" Vulkan #Vulkan guide is now publicly available at howtovulkan.com I still consider it a preview, though I'm mostly happy with it and only plan on changing minor things and incorporating some feedback.

The video: youtu.be/il-TXbn5iMA

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 422 - January 4th, 2025 jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-…

Here’s an interesting new JCGT paper showing that small neural nets can outperform LUTs in speed/memory/accuracy even when embedded in purely CPU-based renderers. The authors are some ex-Pixar rendering guys who are now at Aurora. jcgt.org/published/0015…

Full source code now available! github.com/sphericalvoron…