Hacker News with Generative AI: Rendering

Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows (chrome.com)
The job of a web rendering engine is vast, and much of this work, such as styling, media, or layout, is driven by standards. These standards ensure that independent engines can be interoperable, which has allowed the web to flourish. But some finer details, such as how text is rendered at the pixel level, are often left to interpretation by the standards bodies, and typically end up relying on the operating systems that browsers run on.

Web Browsers, Software, Rendering, Operating Systems

173 points by barlog 7 days ago | 130 comments

Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation (pbr-book.org)
Photorealistic computer graphics are ubiquitous in today's world, widely used in movies and video games as well as product design and architecture.

Computer Graphics, Rendering, 3D Modeling, Visual Effects

218 points by ahamez 38 days ago | 67 comments

Spline Distance Fields (zone.dog)
Earlier this year I decided to put my main project Tangerine on hold indefinitely and began prototyping a new renderer in an unfamiliar language using a totally new graphics API with the goal of overcoming all of Tangerine's technical shortcomings.

Graphics, Rendering, Programming, Open Source, Software

180 points by ibobev 45 days ago | 27 comments

How to draw an outline in a video game (ameye.dev)
Rendering outlines is a technique that is often used in games either for aesthetic reasons or for supporting gameplay by using it for highlights and selections around an object.

Game Development, Computer Graphics, Rendering

555 points by alexanderameye 47 days ago | 70 comments

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

Rendering, 3D Graphics, Video, Ray Tracing

10 points by kibwen 75 days ago | 3 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 84 days ago | 2 comments

End-to-End Tour of Text Layout/Rendering (2015) (blogspot.com)
I’ve found that there is a fair amount of confusion regarding how text rendering actually ends up working. In particular, it seems that the design of the system in general often goes unnoticed.

Software, Computer Graphics, Design, Rendering

43 points by gnodar 94 days ago | 4 comments

Implementing Order-Independent Transparency (osor.io)
The reasoning for wanting Order-Independent Transparency comes from Order-Dependent Transparency being the way transparency rendering ends up being implemented in most computer graphics scenarios, and certainly in the majority of real-time rendering contexts.

Computer Graphics, Rendering, Transparency

67 points by ibobev 101 days ago | 23 comments

Sorting for Rendering (linebender.org)
Many rendering algorithms (including a proposed sparse strip technique for path rendering, and also Gaussian Splatting) rely on sorting. Because the GPU has a different architecture to the CPU, programs running on the GPU have different performance characteristics, and this changes which sorting algorithms are optimal for a particular context. In particular, sorting algorithms that exploit parallelism tend to be more suited to the GPU.

Rendering, Algorithms, GPU Optimization, Computer Graphics

7 points by matt_d 113 days ago | 0 comments

Fundamentals of Radiance Cascades (m4xc.dev)

Computer Graphics, Rendering, 3D Graphics

117 points by ibobev 117 days ago | 33 comments

Mesh Shaders – The Future of Rendering [video] (youtube.com)

Graphics, Rendering, Computer Graphics, Video

55 points by ibobev 129 days ago | 6 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 140 days ago | 14 comments

Modifications to GPU Hardware to Benefit Signed Distance Fields (github.com/bryanmcnett)
Modifications to GPU Hardware to benefit Signed Distance Fields

GPU Hardware, Graphics, Rendering

79 points by ibobev 141 days ago | 14 comments

Writing Portable Rendering Code with Nvrhi (nvidia.com)
Modern graphics APIs, such as Direct3D 12 and Vulkan, are designed to provide relatively low-level access to the GPU and eliminate the GPU driver overhead associated with API translation.

Graphics Programming, Game Development, GPU, Rendering

30 points by Flex247A 151 days ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Open-source Railway, Render alternative running on Kubernetes clusters (agnost.dev)

Open Source, Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, Rendering, Software

50 points by umit-cakmak 170 days ago | 12 comments

Software Rasterizing Hair (sctheblog.com)

Software, Graphics, Rendering, 3D

86 points by ibobev 170 days ago | 20 comments

Rendering Markdown Views in Rails (rollen.io)

Rendering, Web Development, Markdown

6 points by jameskerr 233 days ago | 0 comments

Homegrown Rendering with Rust (2021) (medium.com)