Architecture

UE5 Shader Optimization: Materials, Custom HLSL, and Global Shaders with RDG

When a material graph grows in Unreal Engine 5, it is tempting to ask: would writing HLSL directly make it faster? Would implementing the shader in…

Solid Modeling in your browser

Converting SVG strokes to fills in the browser: the geometry problem nobody warns you about

A while back I was building an icon font with IcoMoon. I dragged in my SVGs, hit generate, and about half the icons came out wrong — hollow outlines…

Zero bytes of geometry: a metal lattice sphere-traced in a 14.9 KB page

There is no model file on this page. No mesh, no texture, no .glb , no HDR environment map. The object you orbit is a mathematical function evaluate…

V.E.L.O.C.I.T.Y.-OS: The Synaptic Canvas GUI & V-NCE GPU (Part 10)

After writing drivers for NVMe storage, my bare-metal kernel could load files and run JIT code. However, I was still typing commands into a text-onl…