Tracing rays at NVIDIA. Former lighting artist, working on computer graphics rendering tech for all humans and robots alike.
I mostly post stuff about light transport simulation, and my hobby project Workbench.
Max Liani
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Do they need to have tried and failed? To qualify, I mean… Does music education at school count?
My literature teacher told me many times I will never write anything in my life. I guess the music teacher thought that too.
That sink is every AI vibe coded application, if you review the code. Hey, it passes all unit tests though…
I always had some envy about people who can read books, novels before going to sleep. If I read something I find myself immersed in, goodby sleep, I won’t be able to sleep at all.
Maybe I see this in rosy retrospection, but I feel that the work I did many years ago to create the Glimpse production renderer still feels to me the most insane project I ever started.
sketch from my notes to give an intuition about the why:
Cut tool. It does more or less what you'd expect from a cut tool. Snap to points and edges, fractional placement, cut across faces, slice. No support for edge loops yet.
New blog post. Just thoughts this time. maxliani.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/p...
