This is truly a very clever series of calculations, a really cool effect, and a great explanation of what went into it. I'll admit that I skimmed over some of the technical details because I want to try it myself from scratch... but the distance map is a great clue.
Same goes for a few of the other images too, but not all of them.
The article would probably benefit from having figure captions below each image stating whether the image is interactive or not.
Or alternatively to figure captions about interactivity, showing some kind of symbol in one of the corners of each of the ones that are interactive. In that case, the intro should also mention that symbol and what it means before any images that have that symbol on it.
This is truly a very clever series of calculations, a really cool effect, and a great explanation of what went into it. I'll admit that I skimmed over some of the technical details because I want to try it myself from scratch... but the distance map is a great clue.
Note that the first image is an interactive demo. Click or touch it. (It's not obvious from the text at the time of writing)
Same goes for a few of the other images too, but not all of them.
The article would probably benefit from having figure captions below each image stating whether the image is interactive or not.
Or alternatively to figure captions about interactivity, showing some kind of symbol in one of the corners of each of the ones that are interactive. In that case, the intro should also mention that symbol and what it means before any images that have that symbol on it.
It's always impressive to see a live demo in a technical blog post like this, especially one that runs so fast and slick on mobile. Kudos.
The iPhone 17 pro is faster in quite a few benchmarks compared to the standard HP Intel notebook my company provides if you prefer windows over MacOs.
In relative terms your mobile is a superb computer compared to 20 years ago; and it's a small resolution.
Probably not that related, but the article reminded me of a shadow casting implementation on the PICO-8: https://medium.com/hackernoon/lighting-by-hand-4-into-the-sh...
This sounds similar to radiance cascades:
https://mini.gmshaders.com/p/radiance-cascades
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3so7xdZHKxw
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