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Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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Defunct. The sky is bluer on the other side. ½ of @PounceLight 🐈🔦 Washed-up renderologist making games with @anastasiaopara
Stockholm, Sweden
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    Sep 24, 2022
    - How many butterflies should we have? - Yes. 👀🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋 #screenshotsaturday #indiegamedev
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    May 9, 2022
    A glimpse of revamped global illumination in my toy #rustlang #vulkan renderer `kajiya` 👀 Lots more ReSTIR, new meshless irradiance cache, much larger worlds 🎉 Around 11ms/frame here on a Radeon 6800 XT at 1080p, pending some optimizations 😛 Lighting: sun + emissive materials.
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    Apr 4, 2021
    Cornell McRay t'Racing // Driving denoising improvements in my toy renderer #vulkan #rustlang #RTXOn
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    Jun 3, 2022
    After 7 months of tinkering, I've finally pushed a major update to my toy #rustlang #Vulkan renderer `kajiya` 💡🥳 A new dynamic global illumination system using lots of ReSTIR brings larger scenes, quicker response, and less noise ✨ Juicy tech details: github.com/EmbarkStudios/…
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    Apr 27, 2023
    One of the things we love in Tiny Glade is the way elements play with each other: for ex, how paths and walls come together to form arches, or that stairs appear when a path climbs a hill. We're now adding windows, and they will have the same kind of joyful chemistry 🧪🧩 🧵👇
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    Apr 23, 2024
    I was displeased with our window glass looking like cardboard, so last night I hacked up simple "interior mapping" via shader silliness. Two parallax planes provide curtains and some blurry hints of an interior. Also: reflections via SSR + software ray tracing :3
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    Sep 23, 2024
    Woooooooo, our tiny game about real-time GI & procgen and shipping Rust & Vulkan is finally out! 🎉🖖🦀
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    Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 out NOW on Steam ✨
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    Sep 23, 2024
    Tiny Glade is out NOW on Steam (Win & Linux) 💗🎉 Thank you so much for following the development and being so supportive of our little diorama builder. We hope you have fun, and I can’t wait to see what you make 🤩 If you post your glades, add #TinyGlade so I can find 'em :D
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    May 8, 2023
    What do you get when you combine... ah never mind, I call this one "Potato Lumen" 😛 ... because it uses a Lumen-style screen-space radiance cache, but aims to run on potato GPUs, tracing only 1 ray for every 16 pixels. How do I feed it so sparsely? ReSTIR of course 🤣🫒🛢️
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    May 14, 2022
    Yo dawg, I heard you like Cornell Boxes! 🟥📦🟩 🏎 RX 6800 XT 🔥🔥🔥 Scene by Cornell University & Evermotion 🤪 (I kicked a few clowns out of the car; ~1.5ms faster now)
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    May 15, 2022
    📺 We interrupt your regular programming for a personal story about the impostor syndrome and perseverance. This image is from around 8 years ago; I had just scrapped a previous toy renderer, and I was making a new one. I got the index buffer wrong, and made this piece of "art".
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    Nov 2, 2021
    What happens if you combine SEED-style "surfel" radiosity with Epic-style world radiance caching and a sprinkle of ReSTIR GI? This! Very WIP, diffuse-only for now, no temporal rejection (thus smearing in motion). Compared to path tracing at a few points here. #rustlang #vulkan
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    Oct 6, 2022
    I can't believe I've never implemented (or seen) this feature before 😳 🎇 Shader Refactoring Mode 🎇 Captures a reference image + GPU timings, then highlights visual and perf diffs upon shader changes. No more "😭 I accidentally broke something 2h ago" when refactoring 🥳
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    Feb 1, 2022
    ReSTIR sample validation makes global illumination snappy! 😲✨ (see research.nvidia.com/publication/20… by @ouyangyaobin et al.) // Runs every frame right now because I'm a hack. Also here: faster surfels via multi-scale mean estimation (as in PICA PICA).
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    Tom Stochastic | Making Tiny Glade 🏰🌿
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    Dec 20, 2021
    We're excited to share how we've been using @rustlang for 3D rendering at @EmbarkStudios, and finally reveal a tiny glimpse of our creative platform! 🤩🦀 medium.com/embarkstudios/… Oh, and my toy rendering engine `kajiya` is now open source! 👀 Details in the article! 🔬
    Homegrown rendering with Rust
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