Alex Evans at Umbra Ignite 2015: Learning From Failure

Why HN readers recommended it

HN calls it an inspirational must-see on SDF rendering and a favorite tech talk for graphics programmers.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Media Molecule

Topic

signed distance field rendering

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• (dev behind sculptgl, but I didn't make the HN story) Nice project! sculptgl is based on polygons (tris/quads only, and using webgl for rendering). As for the other project it was just as a quick and dirty experiments :). [LINK] [LINK] On Unity there is …

• 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 …

• Alex Evan's talk on developing the renderer for Dreams: He's given several versions of this talk (including the Advancements in Real-time Rendering course at Siggraph), but here's one available online: [VIDEO]