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Hi all graphics-y people! I recently finished ✨single source gl✨, a shader-oriented graphics programming framework. It makes coding for the GPU smooth by turning GLSL into a natural part of C++. Try it out at github.com/msqrt/ssgl and let me know what you think :)

@XorDev This one just makes sense though, incrementing a float looks utterly cursed

WGSL is awful

@nekoliini @poikkeusinfo Jos muistan ekan päivän infoja oikein ni pitäis puolittua ennen pitkää. Tosin eiks ne oo nytkin 12min..? Jos se nyt käytännössä toteutuu

@SebAaltonen @MissQuickstep Agreed, but this slow and steady growth has happened (and could continue to happen) without the massive growth on available compute that nvidias current profits depend on. I’m unsure if this power+hw hungry mode is sustainable, but AI in general is surely not going away.

@MissQuickstep Even if this particular spike in AI interest is a bubble, AI algorithms will live on an continue to improve. They have already been proved highly useful in production over multiple years. Slower growth is still growth.

NVIDIA has developed a money tree: H100 Possibilities: A. We build AGI, & this grows exponentially B. We build AGI, which wipes us off the map C. We get tech crash 2.0 (if companies fail to make the use of AI profitable enough to keep paying the NVIDIA tax and the power bill...)

@FlohOfWoe @jernejv The other side of the coin is cluttering all business logic to handle rare error cases. There was a C++ proposal (by Herb Sutter I think?) to do statically typed exceptions, essentially automating the error unions on each level so you can deal with it only at the right one.

@FactsBlock How did they render without shaders on modern GPUs..?

Mojang have officially added shaders to Minecraft on Xbox, Android, and PC! No mods required!

@ManuelaXibanya An option is to just grind enough of them, you’ll start seeing through the (non-)code soon enough

i want to get a masters in computer graphics but like, not to have the degree, just to learn how to understand more than half of any given academic article about computer graphics. u think theyd just let me audit that shit? i kinda got a lot goin on rn

@Touyarokii no

One chomper Pokemon has to go

@Bolverk15 Take her to the beach, emetic syringe, bathroom accident

@_MissClick_ TotK is quite equally a non-zelda. At least this time the world is not empty and the skills are not one hit wonder gimmicks

TotK is a good game by itself (many plotholes needing explaining). As a sequel it's jarring, and as a Zelda game it makes less and less sense. If there is DLC, hopefully details are ironed out.

TorK can't decide if it wants to be a sequel to BotW or not. Like it wants to use almost everything from the over world, enemies, to even music, but for some reason we can barely get acknowledgement/nods to our past journey. Sidon was the true callback that carried 'cuz of Mipha.

@slipster216 For tasks where you do very little compute, persistent threads tend to be a good idea (since schedulng can be relatively time consuming)

@SebAaltonen There is now also the direct ”just shoot a ray for me” mode without the hit-miss-shader dance, though even that seemed more complicated than necessary

The main reason why I am not really interested about the current HW ray-tracing is that the APIs assume that SIMD hardware can run virtual function call per lane. Which is not true. End result is ~10% GPU ALU utilization. Most of the GPU is idling.

People ask me why I am not doing AAA high end graphics anymore. I find mobile graphics more motivating today. I have to write very well optimized code to reach our goals and my choices have high impact on visual output and frame rate.

@HumansNoContext I choose A and D with a 10% probability, B with a 20% probability and C with 60% probability. So C.

@Donzanoid The most unfortunate side is how opaque they are for hobbyists

@conkerjo @FreyaHolmer The only reason you can react in time in sonic is that you already know the level tho

@FreyaHolmer Makes me wonder how sonic pulled it off. Sense of speed and control and could react in time!

I had a similar issue when making a 2D sidescrolling racing game when going fast, it's hard to react to things ahead because you can't see very far, so I thought, maybe I'll just zoom out the camera based on speed? but that completely cancelled out the *feeling* of going fast

@nekoliini Hienostunut pariisitar suoraan seurapiireistä 🤗

@TuomasEnbuske Tästä on myös pidempi versio: ”noteeratun anna-rukan tissit, tosi isot tissit, nakurannan utareet on”!

tissit, tosi isot tissit

@raysdrawlings I liked both phantom hourglass and spirit track immensely, should probably revisit them soon 👀

I am finding out that apparently spirit tracks is not a popular Zelda game?? Like it poorly sold??? WHAT?!? Look at these two??? Their dynamic was so fun?? People missed out 😔😭

@yongyuanxi Sounds like they finally graduated to GLSL 🤔

overheard at CVPR: “no one codes in cuda anymore” 🤨

@BreoganHackett I definitely want smaller games (measured in file size)