Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 440 - May 10th, 2026

niagara: Opacity micromaps live demo expands the Vulkan implementation to support micromaps for ray-traced shadows explains the concept of micromaps and what MeshOptimizer supports followed by showing the full implementation integration process on the C++ and shader side Wave Tracing: Generalizing The Path Integral To Wave Optics – EUROGAPHICS 2026 Talk introduces a wave tracing framework that…