Mikkel Gjoel

Our presentations on how @Playdead made INSIDE now has a home github.com/playdeadgames/…

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-sl…

The Teardown Multiplayer project was a tricky one. It's finally out, and I wrote up the technical details on what we went through to get there: blog.voxagon.se/2026/03/13/tea…

Graphics Programming Conference 2025 presentation recordings are now online: youtube.com/watch?v=iRVLKi…

Visibility Buffer and Deferred Rendering in DOOM: The Dark Ages youtu.be/fXakIV1OFes?t=… Great talk by idSoftware mentioning: "ShaderPrintF, ShaderAsserts and ShaderPrimitive Drawing" You can have similar functionality in any engine using HLSL/GLSL: github.com/electronicarts…

@TFTCentral If you animate the luminance in the darker levels, it becomes even more obvious. I wrote a test for this when I got my OLED laptop some seven years ago. I sent it to you back then as well :) shadertoy.com/view/tl2SDz

New article now live! Exploring issues reported on Tandem WOLED panels with banding artefacts in certain situations, especially on dark grey colours. Is this a widespread issue to be concerned about and does it affect all OLED panels in the same way? tftcentral.co.uk/articles/explo…

@panoskarabelas @turanszkij How is that lit?

@turanszkij Thanks, a subsequent pass that alpha blends on top, providing a single transparency layer.

If you want to research renderer architecture, copy code, or push new shading and rendering techniques, Spartan Engine is a great place to do it. It's modern, MIT licensed, has a strong community of 600+ people, many of them industry veterans. Link in the comments.

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nanite…

Presentations slides from Graphics Programming Conference 2025 are now online graphicsprogrammingconference.com/archive/2025/

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphi…

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

New article! What do you do when profiling your code shows the slowdown isn't in your code, but deep in the kernel? Why, you grab the kernel source and go spelunking. How a routine profiling session turned into a Linux kernel patch: rovarma.com/articles/from-…

@MomentsInCG Does spectral rendering become faster if you only do a single sample of the spectrum?

My second blog post on spectral rendering is out. This one explains how to use wavelength importance sampling to minimize color noise while limiting the overhead to 0.3 ms and how to make BRDFs spectral. momentsingraphics.de/SpectralRender…

Siggraph 2025 “Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Part II” recording is now available. It includes my lecture “Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination”. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…

New blog post! Behind the scenes of some of the techniques involved in making our last PC demo 💫 gboisse.github.io/posts/this-is-…

Interesting realities of how little compute time you can spend on each CPU core to provide economical 128 ticks per second game servers for Valorant technology.riotgames.com/news/valorants…

New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Retweets welcome! Link in reply because algorithm.

Trying something new, rolling my own talks on youtube. Starting with an easy short talk on how I approach C style programming as an indie dev ... youtu.be/RrL7121MOeA

Yesterday was Day 1 of the 3 Day Formula Racing @SkipBarberRS in @VIRNow! As a lifelong sim-racer with only moderate karting experience, this is something I've been wanting to do for years. Thanks to prizes won using @iRacing, that became possible this week! Roll on Day 2!

Slides are appearing for Advances in Realtime Rendering advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index.ht…