"Graphics" Blogs & Blog Posts

Play a game from the early 3D era of games and cobble_stone may well lurk somewhere in the blurmapped angles. Here's a history of the vastly overused texture and an inquiry into its origins. I won't ruin what's maybe a fairly obvious answer, at least...

A.N. Lucas: "Here is a collection of more than 700 88×31 web buttons from the 1990's and 2000's, including the famous "Netscape NOW" and "Internet Explorer" buttons as well as various other buttons for websites of past and present. All were...

pic.twitter.com/BPZfLveBQt— Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) September 10, 2022 Just in case you were wondering. Only when Lilibet is defeated are more revealed.

NVidia's NeRF is an AI-driven tech that takes standard 2D photos and builds a 3D scene out of them. It's much more comprehensive than prior efforts, with low-fidelity junk and voids in the peripheries. The AI fills it all in—very convincingly—in...

Just visual cleanser after all the bad news this week. I need some beauty. I need some oohs and ahhs. I need to think about what happened to packaging and promotion, it has definitely taken a dive. I was just going to throw out the images for enjoyme...

2Bit is an online shrine to 2-bit graphics (i.e. four colors) with the focus on those produced by (or according to the hardware specifications of) the 1989 Nintendo Gameboy. Of course graphics capabilities have evolved to display 16 million differ...

This year's Siggraph conference exhibition is virtual, running August 10-13, with many wonders to look forward to. Above, an official conference overview. See also Theodore Kim's presentation on antiracist graphics research. And finally (so far) here...