Mar 29, 2025 · 6 min read · Day 1: Breaking Ray Tracing DAY 1: Of Breaking Ray Tracing Forever. Ray tracing has long been heralded as the pinnacle of achieving photorealistic lighting in computer-generated imagery (CGI), gaming, and visual effects (VFX). This sophisticated tech...
Join discussionOct 9, 2024 · 6 min read · When you build systems from scratch, you get to control everything, from how fast it runs to how it looks in the end. That’s what systems development is all about. It’s not just about coding—it’s about knowing how things work behind the scenes and br...
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Mar 10, 2024 · 6 min read · Tough times for the computer graphics hobbyists who don't love making AAA game engines, or don't want to use one to stitch together a bunch of render passes and drawing a simple scene. Modern APIs such as Vulkan and DirectX 12 are made for those big ...
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May 29, 2023 · 4 min read · One commonly employed object in ray tracing is the sphere due to its straightforward ray intersection calculations. Ray-Sphere Intersection For a sphere centered at the origin with a radius of R, the equation representing the sphere is x^2 + y^2 + z^...
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