hjaarnio

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1. 1.▲
   by hjaarnio 4y ago

   In case of a communication gap; The word 'topology' has a more domain specific meaning in animation and rigging compared to the mathematical one. It's used to mean that the placement of the lower level components - vertices,
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   by hjaarnio 5y ago

   But there is a technical barrier, which stems from what the 'instancing' actually is on the technical level; uploading only one copy of the geometry to the GPU, and rendering it in multiple places, which you can't do if you w
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   by hjaarnio 5y ago

   You're correct in saying there's no real difference between objects and collections, but there is a meaningful distinction between mesh data and objects, in the object just being a container for the mesh. The modifiers, including
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   by hjaarnio 6y ago

   By rasterizing the SDF in the shader, are you referring to slicing multiple planes through the volume and sampling the function in the shader (as described in https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems/part-vi-be