NVScene 2015 Session: How to Create Content with Signed Distance Functions (Johann Korndörfer)

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as an excellent talk from a demoscene practitioner on how to build sophisticated scenes from distance functions.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

NVScene

Topic

signed distance functions

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2018

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From the original HN conversations

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• I think that's a pretty nice overview you have. One thing I would clarify is about how the objects in the scene are represented mathematically: it's done using 'signed distance functions' so every object you have in the scene is actually created through one of …

• Hg ( [LINK] ) is a great resource. I'm not a fan of the non-commercial license. The intro on the top of the site has a lot of great links to resources outside of iq, including the pouet.net thread on Raymarching, John Hart's original sphere …

• Here's a presentation from one of the mercury guys explaining how to do that kind of thing: [VIDEO] Also, elevated from RGBA should probably be mentioned since iq ( [LINK] ) is the guy behind Shadertoy. (Also because it's pretty.) [LINK]