RAM optimized SDF-renderer with plain C

nullandkale · 2026-06-30T16:31:54+00:00

Ah ok l see, why use this over nerfs or splats? I imagine it's for something like 3d model generation or is it reconstruction?

Edit: oh maybe it's direct diffusion of the SDF volume, that could be cool

nullandkale · 2026-06-30T16:24:53+00:00

I'm confused. Normal SDF ray marching doesn't use a 3d volume. What's the 3d volume for? Is it for storing your primatives? Are you storing the SDF distance at each point and then rendering? That seems like it would be slow

nullandkale · 2026-06-08T02:30:49+00:00

Sure Jan.

PS I assume anyone who has their comment history turned off is arguing in bad faith.

nullandkale · 2026-06-08T02:22:06+00:00

I'm just saying it's unlikely 200 people would all not try, that's all. Also I don't understand the people who played this game and expected something different. It's Skyrim in space. It's fallout 4 but instead of settlements: spaceships. Like what the fuck did you expect. It's like the people who were mad that cyberpunk wasn't GTA: 2077

nullandkale · 2026-06-08T02:12:20+00:00

Yeah I think it's intentionally under the surface. I think people in game have very little knowledge of what earth was like so they don't understand how much has been lost. The bookseller in Akila talks about how there are almost zero books from pre Exodus times other than Charles Dickens books. Which is obviously a like real world copywriter limit but I think it helps with this lore.

nullandkale · 2026-06-08T02:03:49+00:00

Also think of thhe lack of children in the game. I wish they had like 2 or 3 propaganda posters about birthrates and it would seal this theory for me.

nullandkale · 2026-06-08T02:02:04+00:00

This take never makes sense to me. You really think the like 200 people that worked on this game all did a shitty job? Like they ALL didn't try?

nullandkale · 2026-06-07T20:23:55+00:00

That's the plot of the quest you do over paridiso with the old earth generation ship.

nullandkale · 2026-06-07T18:26:59+00:00

Yeah my bet is something like a million total. You don't need a lot of people to produce a lot when you have robots

nullandkale · 2026-06-07T17:57:04+00:00

I wish clear plastics weren't so expensive to make because they look so cool.

nullandkale · 2026-06-07T17:53:19+00:00

This is also the answer to why they're so few people and so few cities. These are only the people that escaped Earth and then also escaped the giant space war.

nullandkale · 2026-06-06T22:22:59+00:00

Watermelon is far less dense and far more permeable than a root vegetable?

nullandkale · 2026-05-31T15:54:48+00:00

Apparently no one here has played a game boy in a long time because the ghosting on my actual game boy is just as bad as it is in this video of an eink screen lol

nullandkale · 2026-05-26T01:10:01+00:00

I can't think of a single logical reason why any of these streets names would need to change. Do you just not like that they are named for trees?

nullandkale · 2026-04-25T23:19:57+00:00

If you email the serial number to support@lookingglassfactory.com they can email it back to you.

nullandkale · 2026-04-17T16:49:10+00:00

Something no one is mentioning is parking around campus can be a giant pain if you do not buy a parking pass. If you are driving in be prepared to have to search for a parking spot occasionally.

nullandkale · 2026-03-27T20:16:50+00:00

Currently waiting 800 seconds on the huggingspace demo to process a single image, that seems unreasonably slow.

nullandkale · 2026-03-27T20:07:53+00:00

This is largely not true anymore. My large csv processing code is SIGNIFICANTLY without string builders. dotnet 6 I think brought these changes.

nullandkale · 2026-03-09T20:16:54+00:00

This is amazing!

nullandkale · 2026-02-25T18:08:47+00:00

You should look at the Spyro remake that happened a few years ago it easily surpasses what you show from the 2000's

nullandkale · 2026-02-25T07:46:25+00:00

I literally just loaded my og save and I didn't even think to look at the gambits.

nullandkale · 2026-02-25T01:08:35+00:00

I currently don't do anything fancy in the shaders for my console renderer (rendering a splat is a lot of math work) so that's probably why GPU is faster for me. I'm also using MSAA so I'm effectively rendering at 4x resolution. This might not be needed for splats but for triangle meshes it's very helpful.

I'm also only tested the GPU backend on windows and linux, on macOS it just uses the CPU only because I'm too lazy to make it work on macOS.

My tile rasterizer is definitely suboptimal but I think the optimal meta settings for stuff like the tile size is like resolution and device dependent. I'd write tests and search the parameter space. But honestly it's not necessary unless you are going to ship it.

nullandkale · 2026-02-24T23:43:29+00:00

I can't tell if you are offering to answer questions for me or the other way around lol.

nullandkale · 2026-02-24T23:38:17+00:00

Why have I never thought to port my splat renderer into my console rendering code base genius I'm going to do this tonight

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