Hacker News with Generative AI: 3D Graphics

An Introduction to Practical 3D Math for Programmers (stunlock.gg)
There are a lot of guides for 3D math that seem to be written by people quite good at math. If instead you're like me and better at programming than math this is the guide I wish I had when I first started learning OpenGL, Direct3D, Shaders, Unity, and Unreal.

3D Graphics, Programming, Game Development

4 points by srid 28 days ago | 0 comments

Derivatives and Logarithms of 3D Transforms (nosferalatu.com)
Given a transform \(T\) and a point x, we can find the transformed point with \(T * x\). But what if we want to smoothly interpolate \(T\) so it moves \(x\) along the path from its initial position to its position transformed by \(T\)?

Mathematics, 3D Graphics, Transformations

105 points by nosferalatu123 36 days ago | 12 comments

Gaussian Splats with OpenScene (ashwanirathee.com)
Exploring 3D Gaussian Splatting for Novel View Synthesis

3D Graphics, Computer Vision, OpenScene, Gaussian Splats

3 points by ashwani-rathee 47 days ago | 0 comments

Robust Wavefront OBJ model parsing in C (nullprogram.com)
Wavefront OBJ is a line-oriented, text format for 3D geometry. It’s widely supported by modeling software, easy to parse, and trivial to emit, much like Netpbm for 2D image data. Poke around hobby 3D graphics projects and you’re likely to find a bespoke OBJ parser. While typically only loading their own model data, so robustness doesn’t much matter, they usually have hard limitations and don’t stand up to fuzz testing.

3D Graphics, Software Development, Programming, C Programming, Parsing

93 points by ingve 54 days ago | 66 comments

Rotors: A practical introduction for 3D graphics (2023) (jacquesheunis.com)
When putting 3D graphics on a screen, we need a way to express rotations of the geometry we’re rendering.

3D Graphics, Programming, Computer Graphics

77 points by bladeee 55 days ago | 20 comments

Rediscovering Quaternions (jasonfantl.com)
How do we represent a rotation in 3 dimensions? This is a surprisingly deep question, and one we can learn a lot from. Our goal will be to “rediscover” quaternions from first principles, building them up by exploring different representations and fixing the failures along the way.

Mathematics, 3D Graphics, Computer Science, Programming

125 points by jfantl 59 days ago | 69 comments

Show HN: AI-native browser game that users can craft unlimited 3D items (0.space)
Space Zero is a 3D world on the browser. Explore worlds, collect items, craft yours and share with friends.

Artificial Intelligence, Web Development, Gaming, 3D Graphics

32 points by stevekwon211 66 days ago | 39 comments

Publish Your Gaussian Splats with SuperSplat (playcanvas.com)
Today, we are announcing a major update of SuperSplat, the open source platform for editing and publishing 3D Gaussian Splats.

3D Graphics, Open Source, Software, Gaming

56 points by ovenchips 72 days ago | 11 comments

Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.js (github.com/AIFanatic)
An attempt at reproducing unreal nanite in threejs

3D Graphics, Game Development, JavaScript

217 points by klaussilveira 78 days ago | 35 comments

Nvidia open-source nanite: continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library (github.com/nvpro-samples)
nv_cluster_lod_builder is a continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library.

Nvidia, Open Source, 3D Graphics, Game Development, Libraries

137 points by klaussilveira 81 days ago | 29 comments

The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (2024) (maximeheckel.com)
I spent the past few months building my personal website from the ground up, finally taking the time to incorporate some 3D work to showcase my shader and WebGL skills.

Web Development, 3D Graphics, Art, Design, WebGL

155 points by matthberg 82 days ago | 20 comments

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 106 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 121 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 129 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 129 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 130 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 140 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 145 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 149 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 150 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 178 days ago | 69 comments

Fundamentals of Radiance Cascades (m4xc.dev)

Computer Graphics, Rendering, 3D Graphics

117 points by ibobev 182 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 182 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 205 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 205 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 211 days ago | 113 comments

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

Doom, Video Games, Virtual Reality, 3D Graphics

59 points by opdahl 235 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 243 days ago | 1 comments

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