Alex Fuller

@stefan_3d @yiningkarlli Just started to dig into spirv because I am wanting OSL on all backends and not just SVM - seems like as of LLVM 21 or so the spirv backend can target Intel and amdhsa targets and relocatable code to make it work, which I think specialisation constants could be done too?

@yiningkarlli Intel OTOH is using SYCL specialization constants and JIT compilation from SPIR-V for select kernels Last time I checked, the CUDA backend could only compile from source when the CUDA toolkit is on the users machine. Hence no source modification, just cubin and PTX.

The M5 Max MacBook Pro is faster at GPU Blender renders than a Nvidia 5090 laptop that costs 3x as much as the MacBook Pro. So that's interesting.

@MCH2024 @SebAaltonen Sure enough they split these into smaller and separate kernels and don't bake multiple megakernel due to the raster visibility buffer and generated gbuffer after that

@MCH2024 @SebAaltonen Reading GPU Zen 4 about Doom TDA I was quite impressed at how they manage material variety this time they can achieve what you'd normally see in a standard offline path-tracer (2 spec lobes, SSS, dedicated hair shader) and up to 8 layer inputs baked at runtime

The PSO explosion has grown so much that today we need massive cloud servers to deliver the PSOs. Each vendor has their own solutions. We should fix the root cause instead of building this massive infrastructure. tomshardware.com/pc-components/…

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…

blender.org/download/relea… nice! (also Brecht landed something I worked on awhile back for Cycles but merged the two together - true corner/face-varying normals that are octahedrally compressed at 3:1 ratio without visual difference)

microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Specs/… weird, I was last night doing a deep-dive on how you'd emulate clusters/CLAS by just making tiny HPLOC-built BVHs into the AABB mode of BLAS with a special hit shader, but if the driver will do it vendor-neutral and on older hardware then cool too...

@VadimYuryev @jimmyjames_tech opendata.blender.org/devices/Apple%… yep pretty good slightly better than a 4090 laptop and almost as good as the M3 Ultra, amazing stuff

@VadimYuryev @jimmyjames_tech Keen to see blender open-data on this, my prediction is around 4090 laptop version for the 40-core variant but let's see...

Breaking: Apple’s M5 Max is almost as fast as the Nvidia RTX 5080. I expected more but I thought we would get 48 cores. Looks like we get the same 40 as before. Thanks @jimmyjames_tech for finding! browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/593…

@HarleyRyder33 @goddek I'll confidently warp spacetime for ya and implant some moving clouds on cg textures next time

@boberfly @goddek Sounds like a confident answer

Bro! I published peer-reviewed research, exposed statistical and scientific fraud during Covid, and helped thousands think for themselves, while you sat online jacking off to censorship and Pfizer clot shots. Take the L, @AshtonForbes. 😘

@HarleyRyder33 @goddek Dunno man in compositing software like Nuke you could make some noise movement on the original photos from cg textures as well...

@boberfly @goddek @AshtonForbes The clouds move in the background of the WAMI footage so that is just wrong

@admiral5137 @goddek Yeah that story is hard to believe imo - but I did hear that too, I feel it is a huge stretch vs just a vfx piece - sorry...

@boberfly @goddek Also, iirc,,there are clues that the stock images were place there later right? But it was done in a way that it seems they were placed earlier?

@chrismartenson @goddek All roads lead to ancient Phrygia, the opening ceremony in Paris screamed Phrygian...

It's an Olympic tradition.

@beyond_fps Also for AMD they've finally landed proper callable functions/shaders and have a better BVH construction so I'm expecting RT to be a lot better soon in Mesa3D 26.x series *shrugs*

@beyond_fps VK_EXT_descriptor_heap will fix this - getting DX12 on Vulkan right now is suboptimal on Nvidia hardware while it's ok with AMD more or less due to the underlying architecture that can map well to the current translation technique, as well as some other extensions RADV supports

Damn and the Linux experience is so much better! It just works.

@DoWCTO @DeptofWar @DOWResponse 👀

Yes, the @DeptofWar has directed energy weapons. Yes, we are scaling them.

Good for Canada. The last thing any citizen of a free nation should tolerate is political leaders looking to block outlets for exercising their free speech rights. I stand by everything I've said on this topic 100%.

@WhiteHouse @HHSGov @USDA

BREAKING: The Trump Administration announces the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, putting REAL FOOD back at the center of health. 🇺🇸 REALFOOD.GOV

@uTobian @richgel999 The Qyork times doing a troll @TomatoBubble 😂

The NY Times quoting an actual Satanist (Demetre Daskalakis) to defend the genocidal CDC childhood vaccine schedule is the perfect symbol of everything that is wrong with the bougiecrats.

@richgel999 yeah lots of stuff in that show - chemmies, soylent green, even a "samson option" reference last ep...

If you haven't seen the "Pluribus" TV series, it's worth a watch. The difference between reality: the "virus" (or the Phenomenon), whatever it is, is already here. It's already in our DNA.