Hacker News with Generative AI: 3D Graphics

Classic 3D videogame shadow techniques (30fps.net)
Towards the end of Wim Wenders’s excellent Perfect Days, the protagonist Hirayama is drinking beer under a bridge after he has seen a Businessman courting his crush. Suddenly the Businessman joins him under the bridge. As it turns out, things aren’t actually that simple but the point is their conversation takes them to some fundamental questions:

3D Graphics, Game Development, Retro Gaming

348 points by ibobev 22 days ago | 69 comments

Fundamentals of Radiance Cascades (m4xc.dev)

Computer Graphics, Rendering, 3D Graphics

117 points by ibobev 26 days ago | 33 comments

Blender Conference 2024: a render engine for curved space-time [video] (youtube.com)

Blender, 3D Graphics, Video, Computer Graphics, Conferences

6 points by clipjokingly 26 days ago | 1 comments

Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting (unite.ai)
A new collaboration between researchers in Poland and the UK proposes the prospect of using Gaussian Splatting to edit images, by temporarily interpreting a selected part of the image into 3D space, allowing the user to modify and manipulate the 3D representation of the image, and then applying the transformation.

Image Editing, Computer Vision, 3D Graphics, Artificial Intelligence

233 points by Hard_Space 49 days ago | 60 comments

Ever: Exact Volumetric Ellipsoid Rendering for Real-Time View Synthesis (gitlab.io)
We present Exact Ellipsoid Volumetric Rendering (EEVR), a method for real-time differentiable emission-only volume rendering.

Rendering, 3D Graphics, Real-Time Graphics, Computer Vision, AI

80 points by alphabetting 49 days ago | 14 comments

Small3dlib: Public domain 3D software rasterizer (codeberg.org)
Public domain 3D software rasterizer for (not only) resource-limited computers.

Software, 3D Graphics, Open Source, Programming

223 points by flykespice 55 days ago | 113 comments

Doom on a Volumetric Display [video] (youtube.com)

Doom, Video Games, Virtual Reality, 3D Graphics

59 points by opdahl 79 days ago | 4 comments

Learn Vulkan: tutorial that teaches 3D graphics with the Vulkan API (vulkan-tutorial.com)

3D Graphics, Vulkan API, Programming, Tutorials

6 points by klaussilveira 87 days ago | 1 comments

Rare yet Impactful – Orthographic Projection in Films and Animations (cined.com)

Filmmaking, Animation, 3D Graphics, Visual Effects

13 points by bryanrasmussen 95 days ago | 3 comments

ASCII 3D Renderer for JavaScript (github.com/kciter)

JavaScript, 3D Graphics, Programming, Software

99 points by thunderbong 103 days ago | 22 comments

Understanding 3D Graphics (azeemba.com)

3D Graphics, Computer Graphics, Technology

38 points by azeemba 107 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Three.js mirror cube that stays in sync (martinpiala.com)

3D Graphics, Web Development, JavaScript, Show HN

24 points by mackopes 111 days ago | 11 comments

Understanding 3D Graphics: Terms and concepts useful for starting with 3D (azeemba.com)

3D Graphics, Computer Graphics, Programming, Tutorials, Software

6 points by azeemba 127 days ago | 0 comments

WildGaussians: 3D Gaussian Splatting in the Wild (arxiv.org)

3D Graphics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Gaussian Processes

108 points by alphabetting 132 days ago | 19 comments

3D Gaussian Ray Tracing: Fast Tracing of Particle Scenes (gaussiantracer.github.io)

3D Graphics, Computer Graphics, Ray Tracing

29 points by jasondavies 133 days ago | 1 comments

3D Gaussian Ray Tracing: Fast Tracing of Particle Scenes (gaussiantracer.github.io)

3D Graphics, Ray Tracing, Computer Graphics, Particle Systems, Open Source

104 points by smusamashah 134 days ago | 8 comments

Niantic Studio: Free Browser-Based 3D and AR Game Engine in Beta (8thwall.com)

Game Development, Augmented Reality, Web Development, 3D Graphics

11 points by mc8 150 days ago | 2 comments

Mip-Splatting: Alias-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting (niujinshuchong.github.io)

3D Graphics, Rendering, Computer Vision

10 points by jasondavies 151 days ago | 0 comments

SceneCraft: An LLM Agent for Synthesizing 3D Scenes as Blender Code (openreview.net)

Generative AI, 3D Graphics, Blender, AI Agents

11 points by dmezzetti 152 days ago | 1 comments

3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (ubc-vision.github.io)

3D Graphics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

239 points by smusamashah 156 days ago | 55 comments

Creating a Doom-style 3D engine in C (2015) [video] (youtube.com)

Game Development, C Programming, 3D Graphics, Video Tutorials

45 points by shikaan 156 days ago | 7 comments

Threescaper: A website for loading Townscaper models into Three.js (github.com/meliharvey)

Web Development, 3D Graphics, Software, Games

199 points by Red_Tarsius 159 days ago | 24 comments

POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021) (povray.org)

3D Graphics, Rendering, Software, Ray Tracing, Computer Graphics

327 points by RafelMri 163 days ago | 170 comments

Celestia – real-time 3D visualization of space (celestiaproject.space)

Space Exploration, Visualization, 3D Graphics

10 points by belter 165 days ago | 2 comments

Reverse Z in 3D graphics (and why it's so awesome) (tomhultonharrop.com)

3D Graphics, Computer Graphics, Software Development

90 points by fanf2 170 days ago | 46 comments

Three.js Shading Language (github.com/mrdoob)

3D Graphics, Programming, JavaScript

160 points by bpierre 176 days ago | 47 comments

Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic (danielschroeder.me)

3D Graphics, Retro Gaming, Software, Rendering

438 points by huhtenberg 181 days ago | 73 comments

From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: Basic Materials and Textures (willusher.io)

3D Graphics, WebGPU, glTF

52 points by Twinklebear 203 days ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Maps and Splats – Mashup of 3D tile maps with Gaussian Splats (glitch.me)

3D Graphics, Game Development, Programming, Software

87 points by kfarr 204 days ago | 19 comments

Invisible Stitch: Generating Smooth 3D Scenes with Depth Inpainting (paulengstler.com)

Computer Vision, 3D Graphics, Machine Learning, Image Processing

127 points by jasondavies 204 days ago | 6 comments