14 stories tagged rendering, newest first.
159 points by ibobev | 23 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.
28 points by luu | 3 comments
Blog post by Aras Pranckevičius describing Smol Gaussian, a fast blur technique supporting animated radius, motivated by Blender compositor's slow Fast Blur mode.
408 points by kciter | 141 comments
A devlog post on kciter.so explaining why work on the browser's main thread is costly and how it affects web app responsiveness.
792 points by ravenical | 260 comments
Blog post by Nikita Prokopov (tonsky) arguing that UIs should follow Wayland's "every frame is perfect" goal, avoiding glitchy intermediate states.
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.
449 points by PaulHoule | 56 comments
A TIGSource forum devlog post by the developer of Return of the Obra Dinn about spherically mapped dithering for a 1-bit first-person game; it was blocked by a Cloudflare check when captured.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/1/11/bfddf0fb-92ef-4362-81f0-c8d293f7be78.jpg)
419 points by imagiro | 68 comments
YouTube video by Mike Turitzin about building a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs).
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.
790 points by ryandrake | 151 comments
Blog post by graphics engineer Sebastian Aaltonen arguing for a simpler, lower-level approach than current graphics APIs, discussing GPU hardware details.
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.
717 points by yohannesk | 101 comments
A blog post about pushing CSS box shadows to extremes, including rendering large numbers of them and using them for ray-traced-style 3D graphics.
385 points by rrampage | 110 comments
Rive blog post announcing that the Rive Renderer, a real-time vector graphics renderer, is now open source and available on all platforms.
427 points by vblanco | 233 comments
Remedy Entertainment article describing the new Northlight engine technology used to build Alan Wake 2.
430 points by akling | 254 comments
Blog post introducing <shadow>, a hobby browser engine written almost entirely in JavaScript that renders to canvas and runs inside a browser.