--- title: Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 336 - April 21st, 2024 description: The post discusses transforming non-differentiable rasterizers into differentiable ones, introduces isotropic distribution of visible normals for GGX-Smith,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/graphics-programming-weekly---issue-336---april-21st-2024-ya4nkhwio twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 336 - April 21st, 2024 | daily.dev og:description: The post discusses transforming non-differentiable rasterizers into differentiable ones, introduces isotropic distribution of visible normals for GGX-Smith,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/graphics-programming-weekly---issue-336---april-21st-2024-ya4nkhwio og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ya4nkhWIO.png og:image:alt: Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 336 - April 21st, 2024 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Jendrik Illner](https://daily.dev/sources/jendrikillner) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/Ya4nkhWIO) # [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 336 - April 21st, 2024](https://api.daily.dev/r/Ya4nkhWIO "Go to post") The post discusses transforming non-differentiable rasterizers into differentiable ones, introduces isotropic distribution of visible normals for GGX-Smith, and explains object space shading based on per-half-edge texturing. [#graphics-programming](/tags/graphics-programming "Check all #graphics-programming posts") Apr 22, 2024•2m read time•From [jendrikillner.com](https://api.daily.dev/r/Ya4nkhWIO "jendrikillner.com") [](https://api.daily.dev/r/Ya4nkhWIO "Go to post") Table of contents [Transforming a Non-Differentiable Rasterizer into a Differentiable One with Stochastic Gradient Estimation](https://api.daily.dev/r/Ya4nkhWIO "Transforming a Non-Differentiable Rasterizer into a Differentiable One with Stochastic Gradient Estimation")[VNDF importance sampling for an isotropic Smith-GGX distribution](https://api.daily.dev/r/Ya4nkhWIO "VNDF importance sampling for an isotropic Smith-GGX distribution")[Colour Science Precis for the CGI Artist](https://api.daily.dev/r/Ya4nkhWIO "Colour Science Precis for the CGI Artist")[Real-time Seamless Object Space Shading](https://api.daily.dev/r/Ya4nkhWIO "Real-time Seamless Object Space Shading")[\[video\] Terrain Tessellation Shaders // Terrain Rendering Episode 13](https://api.daily.dev/r/Ya4nkhWIO "[video] Terrain Tessellation Shaders // Terrain Rendering Episode 13")[\[video\] An Optimisation 6 Years In The Making](https://api.daily.dev/r/Ya4nkhWIO "[video] An Optimisation 6 Years In The Making") 1 Impression1 Upvote Comment Bookmark Copy Share your thoughtsPost [](https://daily.dev/sources/jendrikillner) [Jendrik Illner](https://daily.dev/sources/jendrikillner "https://daily.dev/sources/jendrikillner") JendriKillner's platform covers topics related to software development, technology trends, and codi... 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