15 September 2025

16 links · Monday

Dot Noise

A cheap alternative to 3D simplex noise

Light beam shader in godot

So I was noclipping through d1_canals_08 in HL2 as one normally does on a saturday night when I saw this: A nice sharp volumetric light that does a lot for the mood of the scene. Half Life 2 was released in 2004 so obviously it’s not “real” volumetric fog but …

A Vulkan introduction

A detailed, walkthrough of a single-file Vulkan + GLFW program that renders a colorful quad. Learn how to go from zero to a working Vulkan renderer: window creation, swapchain, pipeline, vertex buf...

Fight Chat Control (@chatcontrol@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal, Peter Hummelgaard: "We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services.…