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On this day 2 years ago I posted a tweet on what would eventually become a sparse version of EmberGen, which had already been in development for 3 years
A retrospective🧵on the journey so far:
#EmberGen
Got rid of some nasty aliasing artifacts today.
g = +90% and -90%, kind of extreme for the environment lighting model (26 directional lights, 1/4 res) and multiple scattering model (6-dir LPV, 1/16th res) used (you can see transitions if you watch closely).
Cursed
(feature request: Agent-initiated harness rewind for context curation for when it knows that part of its context can be shed)
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EmberGen 2 LPV Cloud Rendering R&D
EG 1 could never dream of this many voxels at this rendering quality. Oh how far we have come!
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Real-time spectral rendering of the atmosphere using Radiance Cascades with rainbows and refraction.
Light paths are allowed to bend and create complex dispersion as well as atmospheric lensing.
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Still tweaking the combustion solver in EmberGen 2. A bit closer to photo-realism as well, particularly at the end.
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Based on my recent work for real-time Lorenz-Mie scattering and spectral volumetrics, I think it would suit well for atmosphere rendering in the style of Gran Turismo. Has anyone tried recreating their datasets, or better, results, also to compare? Want to try this in real-time.
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Pretty sure I discovered some new N-body choreographies, up to 11 dimensions for now: lycium.github.io/hyperchoreo…
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i made a puzzle game where you bend light with prisms, lenses, black holes
there's 30 levels for you to play
it's called Prism Rules, it's out now, i hope you'll enjoy :]
Rational photometric blackbody radiation approximations: shadertoy.com/view/ffcSRl
TBH, it's what you get when the default is "throw tokens at it". The latest iteration of "you need to write loops" is just the latest iteration of "throw more tokens at it" as another intermediary step. There's so much waste, imo, flowing from he top (literally and figuratively)
I seriously don’t know what the fuck people are doing.
I manage multiple products and have shipped a few things 0->1 since Claude Opus 4.5 and have rarely ever hit the weekly limit on a Max plan. I’ve got to think people aren’t using orchestration, subagents, or good context management if they need to churn through that scale of tokens working on a 1 person project
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Playing with space warps animation and tesselation in #illugen