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Coding Adventure: Ray Marching

2019-04-02

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In this coding adventure I explore ray marching and signed distance functions to draw funky things!

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Project files:

https://github.com/SebLague/Ray-Marching

Learning resources:

http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfunctions.htm

http://jamie-wong.com/2016/07/15/ray-marching-signed-distance-functions/#the-raymarching-algorithm

https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/smin/smin.htm

http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/2011/09/distance-estimated-3d-fractals-v-the-mandelbulb-different-de-approximations/

A little bonus visualization:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J8tKGjEE5Q

Music from https://filmmusic.io:

"Supernatural" and "Hiding Your Reality" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)


starting with the distance between two points
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start by calculating the distance to the scene
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replace the min function with a smooth version
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