research log · est. 2019
Notes on research and other projects.
I'm Rahul Nair: researching neural rendering and building custom game engines.
Recent
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Reproducing Neural Render Proxies: A Full-Speed Relighting Pipeline in Blender
SIGGRAPH 2026: Volunteering, Neural Shading, and a Teapot
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Porting Chief of the Valley to iOS
Chief of the Valley: Devlog 2, v1.0
Chief of the Valley: The First Devlog
Porting the Render Lab to Linux: What Actually Broke
Moving to Linux: How I Ended Up on Fedora
Summer 2026: What Actually Needs to Happen
Gitnook: Local-Only Version Control Inside Any Git Repo
GDC 2026: Talks, Roundtables, and No Small Talk
Projects
rust / electron / react
quire
A local-first LaTeX editor. Compiles offline with an embedded engine, no system TeX install required. Open source, MIT licensed.
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c++ / raylib
chief-of-the-valley
A desktop management sim, built in C++ with raylib. Shipped on Steam, then ported to iPad and iPhone with touch controls and an in-game keyboard.
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2026
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rust / libgit2
gitnook
Local-only version control for personal files inside any git repo. Files tracked by gitnook are excluded from outer git and never pushed.
Currently reading Musashi, Eiji Yoshikawa · Redmond, WA · /now →