Huh, I just learned that "foldout" is not an established term for UI controls that expand/collapse display of sub elements in a tree hierarchy. Apparently that's just in Unity it's called that.
Instead it's called overly specific things tied to the visual presentation, like "rotating arrows" or cryptic/technical general terms like "progressive disclosure controls" or "disclosure widgets". 🤯
@runevision huh, I would have never guessed. Petition to make "foldout" a widely used term, since it is very clear and way less cryptic / simpler than "disclosure triangle" and friends.
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
Oh cool, RGB9E5 render target format is coming to PC GPUs? I know that Apple GPUs could render to it for a number of years by now, nice to see wider adoption. Curious to see which GPUs exactly can do it. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/agility-sdk-1-614-0/
i'll have more to say later, but for now i'll just say I feel freer than I have in years, appreciate all the support on gun trails that made this possible
I wonder if there could be a way to merge c++ and python into one wonderful bundle of pain.
Just imagine taking bad compile times, undefined behavior bonanza, pre-processor macros, access violations, x-platform inconsistency and wild implicit casts from C++, and then combine it with Python’s versioning mess, runtime type checks, half-assed type checking, bonkers parameter passing and abysmal performance.
1986 - Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk." Modern historians suspect the two were dyslexic.
"Filtering After Shading with Stochastic Texture Filtering" by @BartWronski@mattpharr@marcosalvi Fajardo is most excellent. It takes courage to dare to ask "have we all been doing texture filtering wrong?" to begin with. And realize there actually are a dozen precedents for doing it differently (shadow PCF, negative mip bias, stochastic trilinear etc.), look at all of them, and formalize it all. Great! https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@BartWronski/112445872458391965
I am excited to finally share our recent paper "Filtering After Shading With Stochastic Texture Filtering" (with @mattpharr@marcosalvi and Marcos Fajardo), published at ACM I3D'24 / PACM CGIT, where we won the best paper award! 1/N
@BartWronski ah, I remember a year or two ago you were asking around about Unreal jittered sampling and other “strange” texture filtering approaches. Now we know where all that went! Really nice!
@BartWronski there’s at least 10x effort (and prestige?) difference between a blog post and a GDC/Siggraph talk, but yes even a blog post is 1000x better than nothing. From personal experience though, “hey I found a gross hack!” the first instinct is to not write about it :) But of course you have no idea if your “gross hack” is actually a sensible application of a theory that has not been formulated yet.
@BartWronski your paper is a perfect blend of “proper literature” and “documenting gamedev practices” by the way. The latter is very often not well documented or even understood (I’m sure you are aware of a million reasons why :)). But it is curious that production environment sometimes stumbles upon actually sound theory by accident, without realizing it.
@BartWronski true from gamedev side, but feels like complete opposite from “science” side. Like half a year ago, I toyed with Gaussian Splats wrt data compression, but these were not “papers”. How many of the 100+ new 3DGS papers mentioned it? About one, out of like 20 that were about data compression ;)
@BartWronski oh yeah I’m very aware of how and why that happens. My wife’s a professor, and “citation indexes” are a real thing there that can determine your employment status etc. Citing blog posts is not incentivized in any way, and because you get what you incentivize… well that’s what you get. It’s just funny from the outside :)
@demofox@BartWronski definitely. But my point is, in gamedev (or generally outside of "research"), many of these things are not because someone wanted to find a theory; they are because someone wanted to save half a millisecond. I'm 99% sure stochastic mip sampling happened in gamedev only because of in a virtual texturing system manually doing full trilinear is very costly. Someone had an idea of random mip choice, and went "hey that does not look too bad!" and so it shipped.
@demofox@BartWronski which again is why I'm very happy for paper like this (and a handful of others) that "bring industries together". I think Bart mentioned it too, but many graphics people are blissfully unaware of most of signal processing things done by audio people, for example. It might be useful! (or it might not, lol)
@BartWronski@demofox "What do you mean games already do robust temporal multi-frame super-resolution???" is funny. It goes the other way too though, like half of all the ECS stuffs within gamedev are along the lines of "ok so you've invented an extremely limited relational database, right" and they go "what's a relational database?" :)
@BartWronski@demofox complete topic jump, but thanks Bart and Alan for this "discussion" right here. Since 2020 I've been pretty much sitting at home and working in isolation, and right now I'm on the brink of spiralling into some depression episode and/or realizing how much I miss in-person discussions. This one is not in-person, but still. Thanks.
Um, Darklite, Russia heard you and stepped it the fsck UP.
Holy crap.
(Yes I know X was this past weekend and there were good c64 demos but A> This is Zoo's year B> It was Outline's weekend C> holy crap this speccy demo )
@demofox@acegikmo hear me out: what if instead a weight or a custom spline at each node, you could have arbitrary instructions there, let’s call them “code”. And then you can connect them together in a concept like I dunno, “a function call”. It is probably nonsense, but I get a vague feeling this might be a blueprint for something usable.
Thank you to the @i3d committee and @BartWronski for a wonderful I3D 2024, was great to attend and help in a small way. And Patrick Cozzi and Cesium for being such good hosts, including letting me take two hours of calls in their offices after the conference finished :).
"ZH3: Quadratic Zonal Harmonics" by @torust et al is pretty cool! Looks like much better quality than linear spherical harmonics, at same storage cost. #i3d2024https://torust.me/ZH3.pdf
@yiningkarlli open sourcing something from a large company (like Bentley is) that was not made ready to be open sourced, is a massive amount of work. Audit source, legal, possibly technical work too etc.
Join us on an adventure!
We'll be pushing the rural internet to its limits by streaming all the compo's.
Fri: 19:00 Music + Photo -- 21:00 Graphics + Executable Graphics
Sat: 18:00 Wild + Animation -- 21:00 Executable compos (256b) -- 21:30 Executable compos (128b) -- 22:00 Executable compos (Demos)
Normally Apple is really good at ads, but this ad for the iPad Pro is a huge failure. I sincerely hope it was CG and that they didn’t actually destroy all of those instruments of human creativity. This ad should have been all of that amazing stuff exploding out of the iPad, not getting crushed out of existence.
This ad doesn't evoke "the iPad is an amazing creative tool", it evokes the wholesale destruction of art and culture that happened under the Cultural Revolution.
@dotstdy that reminds me, some years ago Unity launched a “Unity Game Performance” product. Which, turns out, was crash analytics or somesuch. Of course everyone on “the engine” side found about it only after the launch. Tried to persuade folks that this is a bad name, to no avail.
