stencil

A shader is nothing more than a transform applied to inputs (attributes, uniforms and varyings) in order to give outputs (colors, depth, stencil).

Halide compilers knows how to optimize these stencil computation better than old hand written code, which give them these impressive improvements.

Although for finite difference schemes we dont usually form the matrix but rather perform convolution/ forward stencil math.

To be fair, Banksy has caused a lot of stencil art in this city.

His book shows hand stencil blowpaint drawings and depictions of prey animals much like those in the articles in the news today.

Another reason stencil shadows are difficult in a production environment is that any model that casts a shadow needs to be watertight (i.e.

The stencil painted dialog is interesting, like a very slow forum exchange.

For stencil shaders threads might help, since the CPU has to calculate and upload them frequently (unless you're doing stencils in a geometry shader).

Written out on paper with a flowchart stencil the way God intended!

The Pochoir compiler for stencil computations is an example of this.

These days I can outperform them with a solder paste stencil and a toaster oven.

Cheapest possible toaster oven + cheap multimeter thermocouple for manual temperature control + {paste flux, solder paste+stencil} works better than you'd think for soldering BGAs.

Can we please retire the “strong, tough, male” founder stencil once and for all?

See "Carmack's Reverse" - where John Carmack independently developed an acceleration for robust stencil shadows, documented his discovery and then had to capitulate to Creative Labs who owned a patent on the algorithm from a few months earlier.

Stencil shadows are pretty niche though, you only use them when you need pixel-perfect precision.

Stencil on the sidewalk + a pressure washer.