Paul Hughes

@PaulieHughes

Former Head of Tech on LEGO video games @ Tt Fusion. 36 years in the games industry. The Ocean Loader guy! The LEGO Guy! Magician. Inconceivably happy chappy.

Wigan, England
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Joined March 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 28

    Here goes nothing; my newly updated (work in progress) website. Lots of modern and retro game development goodness, with new goodies being added weekly. After three decades of game coding, I thought I'd start giving a little back. Be gentle!

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  2. 4 hours ago

    Finally, I have a moment to breathe! To all the lovely people that have sent me DMs and emails over the last couple of weeks - I'm on them, right about now... Apologies for the delays in my usual service - Old Paulie will be back momentarily!

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  3. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    Just finished implementing importance sampling of anisotropic microfacet BRDF, including Backmann, GGX and Blinn, in my renderer. Apart from the implementation, I also posted a blog that shows the full derivation of all importance sampling method.

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    22 hours ago

    3D Hand Pose Estimation using Simulation and Partial-Supervision with a Shared Latent Space.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jul 18

    Iridescent soft bodies

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    Jul 18

    Bad news for all Star Wars fans...

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  7. Jul 18

    This should be up for an Ivor Novello... Genius!

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    NEW VIDEO! This one's for Putin (with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan.) 🎶🇷🇺🤯🌈
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  8. Jul 18

    Very true - sage advice.

    Great way to learn gfx programming and or keep your brain trained on the subject! The last sentence in this tweet is very important for people learning the subject and not to be disillusioned by the complexities of some papers. So much learning material out there these days!
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  9. Jul 17

    How good is that! Damn son! 😮

    Here's some pixels, wanted to see how well I'd do with higher resolution character animation. Made as if for a fighting game. Time to animate an attack and see how it goes. =]
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  10. Retweeted
    Jul 17

    Fair play to for taking the Colonial Marines thing with good humour... fantastic new job posting from them: 😂

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  11. Retweeted
    Jul 16

    Surface tension ◼

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  12. Retweeted
    Jul 16

    This is great! Datasets drive research; having a modern production asset in hackable form is going to pay dividends.

    Disney has released full data set of Motunui island from Moana movie: Matt Pharr has an excellent blog series on making pbrt better at rendering it.
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  13. Jul 16

    Just reminiscing about graphical breakthroughs in games. I remember sitting at a friend's house playing Bug Byte's Spectres, a PacMan clone, on the 16K Spectrum circa '82, and my mate's amazement at the ghosts being, like, properly "see through" (aka XORed over each other!) 🤪

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  14. Retweeted
    Jul 16

    Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 47 — July 15, 2018

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  15. Retweeted
    Jul 15

    If you enjoyed my post last week about compute shaders, you'll probably enjoy this deep dive on SIMD execution, scalar optimization, latency, throughput, scheduling, and more:

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  16. Jul 14

    Anybody been getting Linked In requests from "International Researchers" recently? It seems to be a new strapline for "I'm a recruiter, but I don't want you to notice that in the short form version of my profile"... Sigh...

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  17. Jul 13

    Blimey!

    An in-depth guide to building a forest biome with seamless textures and scans generated with techniques by Théophile Lebeau.
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    Jul 11

    Such a shocking statistic. If you are having a clear-out at home, we would love to welcome your old books into our Forgotten Library, where we will find them a new home with the children and families of Rotherham.

    'More than 770,000 British children (9.4%) don't own a single physical book,' says :
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  19. Jul 10

    Chatting with an old colleague that left a major developer a while back (being purposefully vague here) - but had worked out in their 11 years at the studio they'd worked 13 years in terms of hours put in (uncompensated). And they say there isn't a crunch culture. Poppycock.

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    Jul 10

    Thank you for making your classic 1980s computer books available for free download:

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  21. Jul 10

    Beautiful!

    Finished up a write up of this dark and stormy skybox shader!
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