Aras Pranckevičius @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place

So! Unity 2019.3 added some improvements to Mesh data *write* API. Now I'm adding ability to *read* Mesh data from Jobs/Burst. Does this make sense (doc link)? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QC7NV7JQcvibeelORJvsaTReTyszllOlxdfEsaVL2oA/edit#

New Input System for Unity! https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/10/14/introducing-the-new-input-system/

‪Demoscene continues to be crazy: a raytracer done as an SQL statement http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83222‬

‪New paper from Morten Mikkelsen: “Surface Gradient Based Bump Mapping Framework”, https://mmikkelsen3d.blogspot.com/p/3d-graphics-papers.html ‬

"An Introduction To Real-Time Subsurface Scattering" is a great overview of the techniques https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/sss-intro/

I just mistyped P4IGNORE as P4INGORE and now I'm wondering.

New tiny blog post, now that Clang 9 is out: "Clang Build Analyzer" https://aras-p.info/blog/2019/09/28/Clang-Build-Analyzer/

I tried my "toy path tracer" on iPhone 11 Pro, just for kicks.
- CPU multi-core 25.2 Mray/s
- CPU single-core 10.0 Mray/s
- GPU 90.4 Mray/s

Compare: 2018 MacBookPro 2.9GHz:
- CPU multi-core 64.5 Mray/s
- CPU single-core 12.9 Mray/s
- GPU 213.4 Mray/s

I'm super late to the party, but... Baba is You is a masterpiece. http://www.hempuli.com/baba/

Knights And Bikes looks absolutely rad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xpFUgCp900

I'll write about it more once Clang 9 is fully out (soon-ish), but here's a little tool I scribbled together: Clang Build Analyzer. https://github.com/aras-p/ClangBuildAnalyzer

Nice to see git addressing some of command line complexities. "checkout" command is way complexicated, the new "switch" and "restore" make sense. https://github.blog/2019-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-23/

"fun" C++ quiz time. what will this program print? (and why?)

I never thought I'd see "There is a lot of goodwill towards this system" used to describe JIRA, but here we are.

AMD RDNA (Navi) GPU architecture overview slides: https://gpuopen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/RDNA_Architecture_public.pdf

"CreativeAI: Deep Learning for Computer Graphics" #SIGGRAPH2019 course material is online: http://geometry.cs.ucl.ac.uk/creativeai/