Dalamar42

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by Dalamar42 6y ago
The basic idea for the anti-aliasing is to take many samples inside every pixel and average them out which smooths outs the edges. The problem with the lights, as the other commenter explained, is that even with this the light is so bright
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by Dalamar42 6y ago
Thanks, I'll look them up
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by Dalamar42 6y ago
The 3rd book [0] is primarily about implementing an MC ray tracer and then adding the techniques in the second paper you linked. That's what I've used in my code as well. I just skimmed through the paper and I think the book cover
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by Dalamar42 6y ago
Do you happen to have a link to any reference material or paper explaining the technique you are describing or a term for it I can search for? I knew why this aliasing was happening, but I wasn't quite sure how to fix it.
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by Dalamar42 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'll have a look
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by Dalamar42 6y ago
This is my first attempt at graphics programming and as I went through it I was quite surprised by the simplicity of ray tracing. Before this, I hadn't imagined you could get beautiful pictures with so little code. I found the whole th
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by Dalamar42 6y ago
Hey. At the moment what is implemented is exactly what you are going to find in the three books of the Ray Tracing in a Weekend series. If I can find the time to continue this project, I am going to make a git tag for the current version fo
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by Dalamar42 6y ago
That's interesting. Thanks, I'll have a look
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by Dalamar42 6y ago
Thank you!
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by Dalamar42 6y ago
Hi HN, first time posting here! I started this project last year when I was looking for something fun to learn Rust with and I had Peter Shirley's excellent Ray Tracing in a Weekend series of books recommended to me. In the process I g
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Show HN: Monte Carlo ray tracer in Rust(github.com)
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