E3 2012: John Carmack Interview
In briefGiant Bomb interviews John Carmack at E3 2012 about his virtual reality head-mounted display prototype. He demos it and talks about latency, depth and focus problems in VR.
Design & Visual
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What is a Geometry Kernel? C3D vs ACIS vs Parasolid
In briefThe Plasticity creator explains what a geometry kernel is and compares commercial options C3D, ACIS, and Parasolid, describing his months of research and why he chose as he did.
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[Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X
In briefA linux.conf.au 2013 talk by a Wayland developer who previously worked on X, telling the history of X and why Wayland was created. It covers X's hardware abstraction and architecture and why they became problematic for modern graphics.
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Google Earth’s Incredible 3D Imagery, Explained
In briefA short explainer from Nat and Friends on where Google Earth's 3D imagery comes from, how it is stitched together, and how often it is updated. It describes aircraft carrying camera rigs and photogrammetry that turns the photos into 3D models.
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Humans can't read URLs. How can we fix it? - HTTP 203
In briefJake Archibald argues that URLs are nearly impossible for humans to interpret, especially for security. He walks through what browsers do about it, including highlighting the registrable domain, and floats a possible better design.
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Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch Camera E-8
In briefRaw 500 fps footage from Camera E-8 on the launch tower for the Apollo 11 Saturn V liftoff, transferred in HD from the 16mm original. More than eight minutes of film covers about 30 seconds of real time.
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Don't Make Me Click
In briefA Google Tech Talk arguing that the best interface requires the fewest clicks and choices, with Google search, Facebook, the iPod and Firefox as examples. It shows how minimizing interaction makes interfaces easier to learn.
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Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed: Feb. 13, 1957)
In briefA 1957 Walt Disney film in which he explains and demonstrates the multiplane camera, the animation tool that gave 2D films depth. It is a short behind-the-scenes piece from Disney's archives.
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AI Learns Noise Filtering For Photorealistic Videos | Two Minute Papers #215
In briefA Two Minute Papers episode on NVIDIA's recurrent denoising autoencoder, which cleans up noisy Monte Carlo path-traced image sequences. It shows how a neural network can produce usable renders from very few samples.
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Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product
In briefBrad Fitzpatrick records himself struggling to silence a set of first-generation Nest Protect smoke alarms that keep beeping and triggering one another.
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This 30-Year-Old Terminator VFX BLEW OUR MINDS!
In briefCorridor Crew dive into the visual effects of Terminator 2 and try recreating the T-1000 bars scene with modern tools. They explain how the original effects were achieved.
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Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014
In briefJohn Carmack's roughly 90-minute keynote at Oculus Connect 2014, covering mobile VR and the Gear VR work, followed by audience questions.
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What would we see if we fell into a Black Hole?
In briefScienceClic visualizes what you would see falling into a black hole, from the approach and the accretion disc to crossing the horizon, in 15 minutes.
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CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Path Tracing Three Ways: A Study of C++ Style”
In briefMatt Godbolt builds a toy path tracer in C++ in three different styles and compares them on clarity, testability, compile time and run-time performance. The talk was given at CppCon 2019.
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Nuggets
In brief"Nuggets" is a five-minute animated short by Andreas Hykade in which a kiwi bird tastes a golden nugget and keeps chasing the high. It works as a parable about addiction, habituation and withdrawal.
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Alternate Reality Kit by Randall Smith at Xerox PARC 1986 (VPRI-0131)
In briefA 12-minute demo of the Alternate Reality Kit, built by Randall Smith at Xerox PARC in 1986. It is a simulated physical world in which users manipulate objects and program by direct interaction.
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Apple Execs on What Went Wrong With Siri, iOS 26 and More (Full Interview) | WSJ
In briefWSJ's Joanna Stern interviews Apple's Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak at WWDC 2025 about Siri's delays, AI strategy, the Liquid Glass redesign in iOS 26, iPad versus Mac, and tariffs.
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Morten Rand-Hendriksen: CSS Grid Changes Everything (About Web Layouts)
In briefMorten Rand-Hendriksen argues that CSS Grid changes web layout, showing how to place content in cells independent of HTML source order and reshape layouts with media queries. It makes the case for using Grid now that browsers support it.
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2Advanced Studios v2 flash website in 2001
In briefA one-minute archive video of the 2Advanced Studios v2 website from 2001, a showcase of the elaborate futuristic Flash interfaces the agency was known for.
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There's No Crying in Flag Design
In briefCGP Grey discusses flag design principles and grades flags, following the Minnesota state flag redesign. It argues for simple, distinctive flags.
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A CGI 3D Short Film: "Dead Hand: FortressFortress/Крепость" - by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros
In briefA 3-minute CGI animated sci-fi short by Dima Fedotov. An automated war system keeps a lone bomber attacking a long-dead city after humanity has been wiped out, until life finds a way to survive.
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Facebook's Prototype VR Face Tracking Got Even Better
In briefUploadVR covers a Facebook Reality Labs prototype that tracks facial expressions using cameras mounted in a VR headset. The updated version captures subtle micro-expressions for realistic avatars.
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How Star Wars was saved in the edit
In briefA video essay on how the editors of Star Wars: A New Hope recut and rearranged the footage to rescue the film. It walks through specific changes that improved pacing and drama.
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Brigade 3 real-time path tracing
In briefA demo of Brigade 3 real-time path tracing at 720p controlled with an Xbox controller. Depth of field, field of view, reflections and shadows can be altered live.
