About

Dzmitry Malyshau. I was born in USSR, migrated to Canada, and now live in California. I like to think about system dynamics and the future of our civilization.

Talks

• In GPU we Rust at Rust in AI meetup, slides, Nov 2024
• Blade - lean and mean graphics library at Rust Graphics Meetup, slides, Jan 2023
• “Wgpu challenges” slides, Dec 2021
• Processing Shaders with Rust at Rust Los Angeles Meetup, slides, Oct 2021
• gfx-rs: lessons learned at Rust Graphics Meetup, slides, Oct 2021
• Building WebGPU with Rust at Fosdem, 2020
• “Introduction to WebGPU” at Mozilla All Hands (Berlin), slides, 2020
• Capture infrastructure with Serde and RON at Rust Toronto (starts at 0:0), slides, 2019
• “WebRender on Vulkan” at Mozilla All Hands (Whistler), slides, 2019
• Portable graphics abstraction in Rust at Fosdem, 2018
• “Firefox on gfx-rs” at Mozilla All Hands (Orlando), slides, 2018
• “Surveying WebGL Developers” at Mozilla All Hands (San Francisco), slides, 2018
• Prototyping with Three-rs at Rust Toronto (starts at 1:27), slides, 2017
• Entity Component Systems in Rust at Rust Toronto (starts at 0:0), slides, 2017
• “Modern 3D API for the Web” at Mozilla All Hands (Hawaii), slides
• “High-level Rust libraries for graphics programming” at University of Toronto, slides, 2015
• GFX-rs architecture at Rust Toronto (starts at 0:53), slides, 2014

All the slides can also be found at https://github.com/kvark/slides, including some of the presentations that never happened.

Smaller talks

• Blade scene editor at Rust Gamedev Meetup, 2023
• Blade asset pipeline at Rust Gamedev Meetup, slides, 2023
• rs-voir at Rust Gamedev Meetup, 2023
• Voxel tracing in Rusty Vangers at Rust Gamedev Meetup, blog post, 2022
• Choir at Rust Gamedev Meetup, slides, 2022
• Baryon at Rust Gamedev Meetup, slides, 2022
• wgpu-hal introduction at Rust Gamedev Meetup, slides, 2021
• wgpu re-organization at Rust Gamedev Meetup, slides, 2021
• Naga in gfx-portability at Rust Gamedev Meetup, slides, 2021

Publications

• WebGPU progress in Gecko in Firefox Graphics Team blog, 2021
• A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox in Mozilla Hacks blog, 2020
• “Layered Textures Rendering Pipeline” and “Hierarchical Depth-Culling and Bounding Box Management on the GPU” in OpenGL Insights, 2012
• “Quaternion-based rendering pipeline” in GPU Pro 3 (paper), 2012
• Real-Time Dynamic Fur on the GPU in GameDev blog, video, 2010

Other blogs

Be prepared for some non-conventional viewpoints here!

• Ideas
• Seeker
• Rusty Vangers
• Synth Lab

Older ones:

• http://kvgate.blogspot.com/
• http://claymore-dev.blogspot.com/
• kvatom.com (archived)