---
title: "Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 446 - July 12th, 2026"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/graphics-programming-weekly---issue-446---july-12th-2026-eujrgv7n7
source_url: https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-446
type: article
source: "Jendrik Illner"
published: 2026-07-16T03:36:11.475Z
updated: 2026-07-16T03:36:26.387Z
tags: ["game-development", "vulkan", "graphics-programming"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 446 - July 12th, 2026

**[Jendrik Illner](https://daily.dev/sources/jendrikillner)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A curated weekly roundup of graphics programming topics including: a deep dive into OpenMesh mesh creation and face-addition algorithms; an introduction to Positional Encoding Projected Sampling (PEPS) for grid-based representations; a deferred software rasterization pipeline for strand-based hair rendering with LOD; a practical guide to projected textures and their mathematical similarity to shadow mapping; an explanation of rotations as rotors in geometric algebra versus quaternions; and a technical guide to manual mipmap generation in Vulkan using vkCmdBlitImage.

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Tags: [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development), [#vulkan](https://daily.dev/tags/vulkan), [#graphics-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/graphics-programming)

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