Hacker News with Generative AI: 3D Rendering

Precomputing Transparency Order in 3D (jacobdoescode.com)
Transparency — or more precisely, translucency — remains a problem when rendering in 3D. When you have translucent shapes, the order in which they get rendered is very important. Consider what happens if this is done incorrectly.

3D Rendering, Computer Graphics, Performance Optimization

14 points by jacobp100 6 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: BlenderQ – A TUI for managing multiple Blender renders (github.com/KyleTryon)
BlenderQ is a terminal UI (TUI) tool for managing a queue of local Blender renders. Add a collection of .blend files to a queue and monitor their progress from the terminal.

Blender, 3D Rendering, Open Source

64 points by TechSquidTV 14 days ago | 6 comments

Introduction to Scientific Visualization with Blender (surf-visualization.github.io)
These pages form the main online content for the two modules of the course Introduction to Scientific Visualization with Blender. In this course you will learn how to use the 3D rendering and animation package Blender for creating images and animations from (scientific) data.

Scientific Visualization, Blender, 3D Rendering, Animation, Data Visualization

17 points by turtleyacht 39 days ago | 4 comments

ProtoGS: Efficient and High-Quality Rendering with 3D Gaussian Prototypes (arxiv.org)
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has made significant strides in novel view synthesis but is limited by the substantial number of Gaussian primitives required, posing challenges for deployment on lightweight devices.

Computer Graphics, 3D Rendering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

22 points by PaulHoule 44 days ago | 0 comments

Gaussian Splatting Alternative: WebGL Implementation of Nvidia's SVRaster (github.com/samuelm2)
A WebGL-based viewer for visualizing sparse voxel scenes from the Nvidia Sparse Voxels Rasterization paper. This viewer provides an interactive way to explore and visualize the voxel radiance field from the web. You can try the viewer at vid2scene.com/voxel

WebGL, Computer Graphics, 3D Rendering, Visualization, Open Source

47 points by samuelm2 46 days ago | 12 comments

Show HN: VSC – An open source 3D Rendering Engine in C++ (github.com/WW92030-STORAGE)
"VSC (VOUGA-SHREINER-CANTH) Verified is A real-time 3D rendering engine written entirely using software with the intention of being portable."

Open Source, 3D Rendering, C++, Software, Gaming

101 points by NormalExisting 72 days ago | 34 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, Programming, Graphics, Quake, 3D Rendering

189 points by ibobev 133 days ago | 54 comments

Blazed – Rust-based 3D renderer (github.com/splurf)
A client-server 3D renderer featuring real-time player movement and view synchronization within a dynamic 128-tick rate system. Built with Rust using OpenGL and SDL2.

3D Rendering, Rust, OpenGL, Client-Server Architecture, Game Development

7 points by splurf 147 days ago | 0 comments

Building Real-Time Global Illumination: Part 1 (jason.today)
Global illumination is about how light interacts with surfaces. When you turn a light on in your room at night, it's not a small glowing orb. It spreads to the walls, the floor, and the ceiling, breathing life into the room. Desks, doors, and objects cast shadows, softening as they stretch away.

Computer Graphics, Lighting, 3D Rendering

12 points by thunderbong 157 days ago | 0 comments

Gaussian Frosting: Editable complex radiance fields with real-time rendering (anttwo.github.io)
We propose Gaussian Frosting–or Frosting, for short–, a novel mesh-based representation for high-quality rendering and editing of complex 3D effects in real-time.

3D Rendering, Computer Graphics, Real-time Rendering

110 points by hellohello2 238 days ago | 5 comments

MVSplat: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Images (donydchen.github.io)

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

131 points by jasondavies 284 days ago | 49 comments

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

3D Rendering, Ray Tracing, Computer Graphics

5 points by dylanhu 317 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Thermion, an open source 3D rendering toolkit for Flutter and/or Dart (thermion.dev)