Alexander Malyutin alexmalyutindev

How to use GitHub releases as markdown image storage

I often uploaded images to GitHub issues and used their URLs in markdown files (such as README.md).
This method was convenient since it didn’t require adding the images to the repository, and each image had a unique URL.
However, in (probably) March 2025, GitHub changed their policy so that accessing images uploaded to issues now requires cookie-based authentication.
This applies even to images uploaded to issues in public repositories.

As a result, the benefit of 'anyone who knows the URL can access the image' has been lost.

From time to time I receive questions on the depth aware upsampling mentioned in the INSIDE-rendering presentation: https://loopit.dk/rendering_inside.pdf#page=39

The goal of this technique is to take the texture-output from a half-resolution pass, containing the results of sampling volumetric fog - and scale it up to full resolution. This presents two challenges:

Making sure samples from the low-resolution buffer, do not spill on top of foreground objects in the high-resolution buffer
Making sure the samples in the volumetric fog can be properly accumulated by TAA after upsampling

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
2013 - Performance Optimization Guidelines and the GPU Architecture behind them
2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
2015 - Render Hell 2.0
2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon

	// https://forum.unity.com/threads/clear-old-texture-references-from-materials.318769/

	#define UPDATING_FLOAT_TO_INT
	#if UNITY_EDITOR
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using UnityEngine;
	using UnityEditor;

	public class MaterialPropertyCleaner : EditorWindow {
	private const float REMOVE_BUTTON_WIDTH = 60;

	Shader "Name" {

	Properties {

	_Name ("display name", Range (min, max)) = number
	_Name ("display name", Float) = number
	_Name ("display name", Int) = number
	_Name ("display name", Color) = (number,number,number,number)
	_Name ("display name", Vector) = (number,number,number,number)

	// LICENSE
	// =======
	// Copyright (c) 2017-2019 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
	// -------
	// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
	// files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
	// modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
	// Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
	// -------
	// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the

	//==============================================================================================================================
	// An optimized AMD FSR 1.0 implementation for Mobiles
	// EASU and RCAS are combined in a single pass.
	// Based on https://github.com/GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-FSR/blob/master/ffx-fsr/ffx_fsr1.h
	// Details can be found: https://atyuwen.github.io/posts/optimizing-fsr/
	// Distributed under the MIT License. Copyright (c) 2021 atyuwen.
	// -- FsrEasuSampleH should be implemented by calling shader, like following:
	// AH3 FsrEasuSampleH(AF2 p) { return MyTex.SampleLevel(LinearSampler, p, 0).xyz; }
	//==============================================================================================================================
	void FsrMobile(

	/*
	MIT License

	Copyright (c) 2021 Chillu

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

	Shader "WorldNormalFromDepthTexture"
	{
	Properties {
	[KeywordEnum(3 Tap, 4 Tap, Improved, Accurate)] _ReconstructionMethod ("Normal Reconstruction Method", Float) = 0
	}

	SubShader
	{
	Tags { "RenderType"="Transparent" "Queue"="Transparent" }
	LOD 100