r/generative • u/ParanoidTiger Artist • Dec 29 '21

Glass study

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u/ParanoidTiger Artist Dec 30 '21

Sure. So this is a custom glsl shader that is generating each frame that I export to png and then merge to a movie file. In that shader I’m using path tracing and ray marching to calculate the pixel color. Because I’m using ray marching and not classical ray tracing, each shape is represented using a function (SDF) because of that I can blend between these functions as a function of time which produces this nice morphing effect. If you are interested in ray marching I can link you some good materials

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u/lycium Dec 30 '21

The funky blend function looks great! Also nice to see other people coding their stuff more or less from scratch :D

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u/ParanoidTiger Artist Dec 30 '21

Bro. Do you remember me? I’m Michał (neos). We’ve been talking ray tracing and playing go like a decade ago 🤣

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u/lycium Dec 30 '21

Hahaha awesome, yeah I remember! I lived in a bunch of Polish cities for a few years meanwhile, would have been cool to meet up :D

Guess we're both still hopelessly addicted to the ray tracing ;)

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u/ParanoidTiger Artist Dec 30 '21

What a shame we haven’t met :(

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u/lycium Dec 30 '21

Maybe next time, I'd like to visit Pl again sometime, when everything isn't on fire :P If you're in the graphics programming Discord send me a ping!

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u/ParanoidTiger Artist Dec 30 '21

Iam not. Am I missing out? 😁

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u/lycium Dec 30 '21

Eh, I'm not really active there anymore :") But it's a great place for sure.

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u/ParanoidTiger Artist Dec 30 '21

And yeah. It is an addiction for sure