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[โ€“] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently the new hotness is Ray Marching, basically Ray tracing with circles

[โ€“] rasensprenger@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Are you sure? The way I understand it, ray marching is not something that can really replace ray/pathtracing, it's mainly used for rendering signed distance fields which is cool if you want to draw fractals and stuff, but not very efficient for classical geometry