36 stories tagged computer-graphics, newest first.
157 points by embedding-shape | 67 comments
Walt Disney Animation Studios page explaining its filmmaking process, breaking down Zootopia 2 into sequences, shots, and frames across departments.
133 points by ibobev | 19 comments
Blog post explaining an implementation of procedural tree growth based on Palubicki et al.'s self-organizing tree models, covering light competition, resource allocation, and foliage rendering.
![Screenshot of math.pku.edu.cn: A History of Curves and Surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/18/446ed254-a594-4c6a-bf1e-57d899482389.jpg)
27 points by mbustamanter | 4 comments
Gerald Farin's paper giving a historical account of curves and surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design up to the mid-1980s.
49 points by ibobev | 1 comments
Arseny Kapoulkine's blog post on improving hierarchical clustered LOD support in meshoptimizer, prompted by NVIDIA's vk_lod_clusters sample and its Zorah scene.
157 points by ibobev | 59 comments
An AlphaPixel tutorial comparing GPU text rendering techniques: SDF, MSDF, Slug, Rive, and texture atlases.
9 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments
A circa-1995 article by Edward Kmett on The Comonad.Reader explaining the use of wavelets, including the Haar basis, for compression in 3D graphics.
398 points by atan2 | 221 comments
A blog post on demofox.org (The blog at the bottom of the sea) advising what topics to learn to become a graphics programmer.
514 points by ibobev | 40 comments
A blog post by Maxime Heckel exploring atmospheric scattering and how to render realistic skies, sunsets, and planets with shaders.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/4/8/de0af6d5-9748-4c55-b8a6-11c78ac5de02.jpg)
347 points by tetrisgm | 120 comments
YouTube video of the Revision 2026 demoparty PC Demo competition, linked at the timestamp of Razor1911's entry.
714 points by mwkaufma | 69 comments
Eric Lengyel's retrospective blog post on ten years of the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU and its licensing history.
727 points by ChrisArchitect | 239 comments
Radiance Fields article about A$AP Rocky's "Helicopter" music video, which was produced using Gaussian splatting 3D capture techniques.
1271 points by alexharri | 139 comments
Blog post by Alex Harri taking a deep dive into building an image-to-ASCII renderer, with interactive demos explaining why ASCII characters aren't pixels.
331 points by pantalaimon | 73 comments
Blog post by Disney Animation engineer Yining Karl Li sharing personal notes and thoughts from two years working on Zootopia 2.
370 points by Garbage | 79 comments
A chapter from Making Software explaining how shaders draw high-fidelity graphics using only x and y pixel coordinates; the capture shows a Vercel security checkpoint.
413 points by Bogdanp | 86 comments
An interactive visual explainer introducing dithering, the first part of a series on visualrambling.space, navigated by tapping through slides.
463 points by ibobev | 46 comments
Blog post by Nikos Papadopoulos explaining how to build a custom Three.js shader that recreates an iridescent foil sticker effect with vertex deformation and procedural flakes.
410 points by simonpure | 173 comments
Project page for LL3M, a University of Chicago research system where large language models write Blender code to create and iteratively edit 3D models.
395 points by romes | 192 comments
Inigo Quilez article correcting the misconception that GPU conditionals should be replaced with mix() and step() in shader code.
368 points by ibobev | 55 comments
A blog post by lisyarus explaining how to simulate water flowing over terrain using the virtual pipes method, motivated by grid-based games and terrain generation.
443 points by LordNibbler | 37 comments
Daniel Hooper's blog post explaining how he programmed an SDF animation of Rick from Rick and Morty in 240 lines of code, with an embedded live coding editor.
726 points by lnyan | 69 comments
Project page for NeuralSVG, a research method from Tel Aviv University and MIT CSAIL that generates layered SVG vector graphics from text prompts using an implicit neural representation.
529 points by todsacerdoti | 51 comments
Matt Keeter's project page for Fidget, a library for representing, compiling, and evaluating large math expressions, mainly as a backend for implicit surfaces.
511 points by alexanderameye | 56 comments
A blog post explaining five different techniques for rendering object outlines in Unity games, with examples from games like Sable and The Last of Us.
351 points by tlarkworthy | 53 comments
Product page for Mixbox by Secret Weapons, a library that simulates realistic pigment color mixing for digital painting software.
525 points by todsacerdoti | 84 comments
A blog post on FrostKiwi's Secrets explaining anti-aliasing techniques like SSAA, SMAA, and DLAA, then introducing analytical anti-aliasing in shaders.
767 points by RafelMri | 95 comments
GitHub repository for GodotOceanWaves, an MIT-licensed FFT-based ocean-wave rendering implementation for the Godot engine.
372 points by vouwfietsman | 107 comments
GitHub repository implementing UE5's Nanite virtualized geometry in WebGPU, with meshlet LOD hierarchy, software rasterizer, billboard impostors, and culling.
341 points by ibobev | 84 comments
A beginner-friendly Pikuma blog tutorial by Gustavo Pezzi explaining the theory and math of isometric projection and how it is used in game development.
346 points by huhtenberg | 61 comments
Blog post describing a voxel displacement renderer that modernizes the retro 3D aesthetic; the page returned a 502 Bad Gateway error when captured.
590 points by atan2 | 330 comments
Blog post explaining exponential smoothing as an animation technique for cameras, UI elements, and audio, with interactive examples and the underlying math.
489 points by grgrdvrt | 85 comments
Write-up by Steven De Keninck on 'Look, Ma, No Matrices!', a glTF-compliant forward 3D renderer built entirely on projective geometric algebra instead of matrices.
727 points by ibobev | 156 comments
Andrew Chan's blog post with notes on the math, algorithms, and methods for simulating fluids like fire and smoke in real time, with source code on GitHub.
684 points by jackcook | 148 comments
Project page for MeshGPT, a research paper from TU Munich, Politecnico di Torino and Audi that generates triangle meshes using decoder-only transformers.
465 points by superMayo | 65 comments
An interactive blog post, Part I of 'A Journey Into Shaders,' introducing shader programming by building a blob with editable code and sliders.
328 points by TheNumbat | 96 comments
Blog post by Max Slater explaining how treating functions as infinite-dimensional vectors applies linear algebra to graphics, geometry processing, and machine learning.
373 points by bpierre | 74 comments
Human Shader is a crowdsourced project where people compute shader pixels by hand with arithmetic to collectively render an image without a computer.