Coffee, Code & Shaders: Real-Time Rendering Conversations

This time, we are going to talk about a research study developed by Bernardo Taveira, Carl Lindstrom, and Frederik Kahl from Chalmers University of Technology. In this work, they propose using a Voronoi diagram to...

Today we will discuss this presentation by Benjamin Watson at High Performance Graphics 2026, where he argues that the industry must move past its obsession with photorealism to focus on ultra-low latency. He proposes...

Today, we will discuss a post written by Pablo Zurita , P rincipal Render Engineer at 2K Sports Lab , on his personal blog. In it, he analyzes material micro-occlusion implementations from Naughty Dog and Activision...

This time, we are going to talk about the presentation given by Michal Olejnik , Lead Ray-Tracing Engineer at Infinity Ward , during SIGGRAPH 2026 . In it, he discusses the concept of Variable Rate Ray Tracing (VRRT)...

This time, we will talk about the presentation given by Sergey Makeev , Senior Technical Director at ROBLOX , during SIGGRAPH 2026 . In it, he details the development of a rendering architecture called SLIM, designed to...

Today, we will discuss this paper by Dirk Gerrit van Antwerpen et al., in which they propose a path-tracing system that overcomes the memory limitations of traditional ray-tracing by using opacity micromaps (OMMs) to...

Today, we will discuss this paper presented by Holger Gruen at High Performance Graphics 2026 , which introduces an innovative method for applying ray tracing to massive amounts of animated geometry. The paper proposes...

This time, we will talk about the presentation given by Brian Karis from Epic Games during High Performance Graphics 2022 . He discusses the journey that led to the development of Nanite in Unreal Engine 5 as a means to...

This time, we are going to talk about a paper published by Lukas Lipp, Adrian Jarabo, Michael Wimmer, and Lukas Bode. In this work, they propose a system to efficiently render hair in real-time via software as an...

Today, we will talk about Digital Foundry's interview with IO Interactive engineers to discuss the innovations in their Glacier Engine for the development of 007 First Light . In it, they discuss how they have...

Today, we're going to talk about this presentation given by Tzu-Mao Li at Pacific Graphics 2025 . In it, he discusses the relevance of classical graphics programming in the face of the generative AI boom. Through...

Today, we will talk about an educational video presented by Markitekta , which analyzes the evolution of computer lighting. It covers everything from 1990s rasterization with Toy Story to how Lumen works in Unreal...

Today, we are going to talk about this paper that will be presented at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2026 , where the authors—Jacob Munkberg, Jon Hasselgren, Petrik Clarberg, Magnus Andersson, and Tomas Akenine-Möller—present a...

Today, we are going to talk about the presentation given by Shlomi Steinberg and Matt Pharr at EUROGRAPHICS 2026 . In it, they explain how the wave nature of light and its propagation and diffraction of electromagnetic...

Today, we will talk about a presentation by Tom Hammersley , Principal Engineer at EA Codemasters , during the Game Developers Conference 2025 . In this talk, he details how they implemented path tracing for F1 25 in...