Hacker News with Generative AI: 3D Graphics

Portals and Quake (30fps.net)
Ever wanted to know how exactly did Quake’s precomputed visibility work? I did, so I wrote vis.py, a reimplementation of their algorithm in Python. This guide has all the information you need to understand vis, the tool used by Quake, Half-Life and Source Engine games.

Game Development, 3D Graphics, Programming, Open Source, Quake

4 points by todsacerdoti 8 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU (github.com/lisyarus)
This is a GPU "software" raytracer (i.e. using manual ray-scene intersections and not RTX) written using the WebGPU API. It expects a single glTF scene as input. It supports flat-colored and textured materials with albedo, normal, and material maps. It doesn't support refraction (yet).

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

131 points by lisyarus 22 days ago | 37 comments

Show HN: ImPlot3D – A 3D Plotting Library for Dear ImGui (github.com/brenocq)
ImPlot3D is an extension of Dear ImGui that provides easy-to-use, high-performance 3D plotting functionality.

Software, Programming, Libraries, 3D Graphics, Data Visualization

170 points by brenocq 31 days ago | 42 comments

Lou's Pseudo 3D Page (2013) (extentofthejam.com)
Now that every system can produce graphics consisting of a zillion polygons on the fly, why would you want to do a road the old way? Aren't polygons the exact same thing, only better? Well, no. It's true that polygons lead to less distortion, but it is the warping in these old engines that give the surreal, exhillerating sense of speed found in many pre-polygon games.

Retro Gaming, 3D Graphics, Video Games, Computer Graphics

160 points by whereistimbo 31 days ago | 23 comments

Introduction to Rotation for Computer Graphics (mauriciopoppe.com)
The basics of rotation in 2d and 3d for computer graphics with a focus on 3d rotation about cardinal axes and 3d rotation with quaternions.

Computer Graphics, 3D Graphics, Mathematics, Programming

8 points by davikr 32 days ago | 0 comments

Rendering Tiny Glades with Entirely Too Much Ray Marching [video] (youtube.com)

Rendering, 3D Graphics, Video, Ray Tracing

10 points by kibwen 42 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Glyph3D – A 3D text visualizer for macOS and iOS / iPadOS (github.com/tikimcfee)
Render source code in 3D, for macOS and iOS.

Software, 3D Graphics, macOS, iOS, iPadOS

52 points by tikimcfee 47 days ago | 21 comments

3D Convex Splatting: Radiance Field Rendering with 3D Smooth Convexes (convexsplatting.github.io)
3D Convex Splatting achieves high-quality novel view synthesis and fast rendering by representing scenes with 3D smooth convexes.

3D Graphics, Computer Vision, Rendering

20 points by surprisetalk 51 days ago | 2 comments

Quark: Real-Time, High-Resolution, and General Neural View Synthesis (quark-3d.github.io)
We present a novel neural algorithm for performing high-quality, high-resolution, real-time novel view synthesis.

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, 3D Graphics, Neural Networks

27 points by lnyan 52 days ago | 1 comments

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 80 days ago | 69 comments

Fundamentals of Radiance Cascades (m4xc.dev)

Computer Graphics, Rendering, 3D Graphics

117 points by ibobev 83 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 84 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 107 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 107 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 113 days ago | 113 comments

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

Doom, Video Games, Virtual Reality, 3D Graphics

59 points by opdahl 136 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 145 days ago | 1 comments

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