Tagged “graphics”

more fun things to waste time learning about

cooool

I like that part 3 is "Ray tracing for the rest of your life"

this is awesome. And top HN comment mentions glicol which also looks very interesting.

maybe this is the year I learn something about shaders

scene resconstruction from reflections in someone's eyes in a photograph

not sure if I would actually find this useful, dense multi-arrowed charts are often hard for me to follow. Cool though!

Generate 3d objects from a prompt.

everything is complicated.

you think are are doing ok at programming then come across this kind of thing

James Blinn teaches how to model shapes with polynomials

Visual-first programming for visual effects

Generate 3d fern models in browser

Crazy stuff. Also the generated faces

"Share a private virtual room with friends. Watch videos, play with 3D objects, or just hang out"

Works impressively well on pancake browsers as well. Found via HN.

Holy shit this is crazy. Rendering for VR is surprisingly different to rendering to a screen - mainly the "check current pose to figure out what to render" part is wild.

Also with a great editor

Thorough and followable breakdown, with lots of code comments. Will this be what gets me to actually learn WebGL? We'll find out!

A bit of history of typesetting and text rendering

Fantastic explanation