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Computer graphics researcher / mathematician / liberal elitist / musician / artist STEM / C++ / pathtracing / hard-scifi / caffè / thai+indian food / snark Truth and kindness are the most important things
The tech people rejoice in what *can* be built.
The academics despair in what *has* been built.
This is actually an AO render. Originally, I was going to make it a render with glass material and an envmap, but the ray depth explodes. It also turns out all those interactions efficiently attenuate paths, so the right answer for glass is a mostly black image anyway. AO brings out more detail!
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So I made a steampunk multimeter
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1 billion Utah teapots arranged into a cube.
From the archives: ever wonder what 1 billion Utah teapots looks like?
Boom. 1 gigateapot.
(Rendered with my old pathtracer, using a recursive BVH.)
Just to get us started, here's a thing I wrote about how the 3D rasterization pipeline works.
Also included is a small (single-file, < 300 lines, including comments) implementation in C++, because code is worth 1000 words.
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I am Agatha Mallett (geometrian.com). I mainly do computer graphics, but you may catch me doing everything from designing PCBs to playing fiddle.
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