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Jump to heading # Introduction A few years ago I was working on a mobile augmented reality application where users were able to use their phone to place objects within the environment. To help them with this, there was a 3D reticle visible on the screen that reacted to the environment. There are several key...

Jump to heading # In the last episode of ... In my previous post, I talked about how I created a physically-based CPU path tracer in Rust from scratch. It was a good start, but one of the limiting factors while developing it was iteration speed. Each time I modified the scene or changed some parameters, I had to...

Jump to heading # Introduction This weekend I was working in Blender and noticed their easy to use circular menu. By pressing a button, the menu appears and then by pointing your mouse in a direction, you can select one of the options. Pie menu in Blender. Jump to heading ...

Jump to heading # Introduction A while ago, I made a shader for a project of mine to simulate halftone shading. This note quickly explains how I created the effect. Jump to heading # Creating a dots pattern To start, I created a Dots Pattern subgraph to create...

Some renders made with my path tracer. Jump to heading # First Steps As so many people out there that want to get into writing a raytracer, I started with raytracing in one weekend. I can 100% recommend this as a starting point, even if you are not familiar with ray tracing at all. While there...