George Bolba

For the past ~8 weeks I've been working on Ocean Rendering for a school assignment. I wrote a blog post going into the details of my implementation and how you can do it too! Give it a read and let me know your thoughts 😁 gikster.dev/posts/Ocean-Si…

@Dispatch_Graph Congrats! 🥳

Just got out of my final exam, which means I am officially done with university. Finally I can have peace and never set foot in this place ever again Should be getting my diploma sometime in September

@SoftEngineer @BrianKaris @MyNameIsMJP There is this GDC talk from the Uncharted 4 Devs as well. I used it recently as a base for my implementation, really nice presentation. Here's the link: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2016/s16_Ke.p…

Learning about TAA on technical level, there's an amazing SIGGRAPH presentation by @BrianKaris from 2014 "High Quality Temporal Supersampling" de45xmedrsdbp.cloudfront.net/Resources/file… Also, this article is a great source: elopezr.com/temporal-aa-an… It builds on @MyNameIsMJP 's MSAA demo github.com/TheRealMJP/MSA… Matt himself did a presentation "Rendering The Alternate History of The Order: 1886" at SIGGRAPH ~2015 which gives a little more context I hope this gets you to where you need to be!

@panoskarabelas One of my mom's favorite artists😅

I don't think I'll ever get tired of working while listening to Vangelis. Something about his sound fits perfectly when you're exploring ideas or writing code on a beautiful evening or late at night...

@MilanBonten Looking great! 💯

A little showcase of my custom voxel physics + destruction! Its for an upcoming game I'm working on👀

@kechogarcia Do you guys take interns? 😅

@panoskarabelas Take it easy, chief 🫡

Sometimes I think, how much can I take? You know what I mean?

@panoskarabelas I should too 😅😉

Mr. Potato will study the technology.

@dangreenheck Cool! Do you use a clipmap for rendering the ocean mesh?

After 5 failed attempts and a week of long nights (thanks for nothing Claude), I finally have seamless air/water transitions in Three.js Water Pro. I was going to save this for V3 but the existing transition was so bad, I wanted to get it fixed and done right. If you want to get notified when Three.js Water Pro V2 gets released—plus weekly Three.js tips and tutorials—be sure to sign up for my newsletter. You'll also receive a code for 10% OFF you first order when you sign up! threejsroadmap.com/join

Do a generalized computer science degree basically

Man. I am honestly so disappointed with how I handled academics in my life, maybe I should write a thread about it in the future so that the youngens don’t make the same mistakes as I did

here's an actual real time realistic 3D ocean simulation I wrote a few years ago without AI just by reading some papers. maybe someday Gemini can catch up to 30 year old rendering tech

bio update can you notice whats new? big things are coming…

@JakeTheL3mur The Unreal Engine effect...

The left is The Requirements for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga The Right is the Requirements LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE WE DOING HERE GUYS!? #LEGO #LEGOStarWars #LEGOBatman

@DPL_Virginian @screentime Bro has not seen Andor...

@screentime That would’ve been Star Wars with consequences. Great conversation. Wrong franchise. Gilligan doesn’t do safe universes.

Kathleen Kennedy says she had a conversation with Vince Gilligan about doing a 'STAR WARS' series (via: Deadline)

@panoskarabelas @Rainmaker1973

@Rainmaker1973 A dog to finish it.

What’s missing from this dinner?

@JKoukourakis Thanks for the reply! Sounds quite doable :)

Sure! A bit of a headache but the process goes like this: ImGui rasterizes the requested font into an atlas map once at startup. Look at ImFontGlyph, CalcTextSizeA, and ImTextCharFromUtf8 for a start. So yes, ImGui is doing most of it. Then: - Calculate the total pixel dimensions needed for the specific string (CalcTextSizeA). - Create a blank RGBA pixel buffer of that size. - Iterate through each character, get its data from ImGui, and manually copy the pixels from the atlas to the buffer (FindGlyph). During this stage, you can also apply colors and such. - Upload buffer to your graphics API as a standard texture (OpenGL in my case). - Map that texture onto a simple quad mesh in the 3D scene. I believe if you feed this to an AI model it should give you a good starting point.

Using ImGui's font atlas to render text into an RGBA texture, then mapping it to a simple quad for in-game 3D text. Super useful for debugging and prototyping.

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

-- JOB SEARCH POST/RT APPRECIATED -- Hello everyone! I am available for work (full time position/internship) anywhere in the world with priority going to the EU, starting June 2026. My past experience at Quantic Dream and UBISOFT as an intern have strengthened my skills as a graphics programmer in AAA and am now looking for the next step in my career. My skills include C/C++, graphics programming using APIs like Vulkan, Metal, DirectX 12, and console APIs. I am also familiar with modern rendering techniques including GPU driven rendering, raytracing and more. If you're looking for a engine/graphics programmer to join your team, or if you know someone that might be interested, feel free to DM me!

@dangreenheck Here's an easy way to deal with the tiling 😉 ubisoft.com/en-us/studio/l…

"The sea was angry that day my friends." 🌊 Getting this foam to work was NOT easy. Tried a million different approaches but eventually landed on calculating foam from the Jacobian (aka steepness), adding in a persistence buffer with decay, then layering fractal Voronoi noise on top of that. Fairly standard approach as far as I can tell but getting Claude to do it correctly was 75% of the challenge. It's still not perfect (still have some tiling issues over large distances), but it feels good enough to move on. Next I will be adding some sea spray before adding in objects! #threejs #webgl #webgpu #shaders