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DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter
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Avoiding visible texture repetition (2015)
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Write a First Person Game in 2KB with Rust
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Polynomial interpolation
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Converting a fisheye image into a panoramic, spherical or perspective projection
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Practical Real-Time Hex Tiling
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From NAND to Raytracer: Raytracing on the Hack Computer
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An Introduction to ASCII Ray Marching
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Ray Tracing in pure CMake
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Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D
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Band-Limiting Procedural Textures
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PIFuHD: High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization
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High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization
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The Center of the Pixel is (0.5, 0.5)
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Revisiting the postcard pathtracer with CUDA and Optix
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Revisiting the Business Card Raytracer
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Multipole Methods for the Masses
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Blurred rounded rectangles
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Improved Geometric Specular Antialiasing [pdf]
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3 (2018)
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Ray tracing with uLisp
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Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
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Interior Mapping: rendering real rooms without geometry (2018)
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Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1
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Show HN: A raycaster that renders to random dot stereogram (like Magic Eye)
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A first-person engine in 265 lines (2014)
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Lines of bare C++: raytracing made simple
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Deciphering the postcard-sized raytracer
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Fast, Constant-Time Sphere Indexing
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Pseudo-bandlimited pixel art filtering in 3D: A mathematical derivation
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Taking a Stroll Between the Pixels
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Dissecting the 128-byte raycaster (2014)
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The Old-School Fire Effect and Bare-Metal Programming
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Dither stabilisation
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Render Multimedia in Pure C
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Doing the FizzleFade effect using a Feistel network
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FizzleFade
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PICO-8 Lighting: Part 2 – Stitching Lines Together
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PICO-8 lighting, part 1: thin dark line
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Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer
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Smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++
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Ray-Casting Tutorial for Game Development and Other Purposes (1996)
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Ken's Academy Award: Noise and Turbulence
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A minimal raytracer
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Recreating the Doctor Who Time Tunnel in GLSL
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Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
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Dissecting the 128-byte raycaster
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A first-person engine in 265 lines of JS
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How to create 2D visibility/shadow effects for your game
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Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer
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Smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++ (with no external deps)
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Implementing Mario's Stack Blur 15 times in C++ (with tests and benchmarks)
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Screen Space Reflection
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A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of
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Sculpting the moon in R: Subdivision surfaces and displacement mapping
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Median filtering (2022)
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Exact Polygonal Filtering: Using Green's Theorem and Clipping for Anti-Aliasing
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Yesterday's Pixels, Today
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UE5 Nanite in WebGPU
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