[HN Gopher] Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions
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       Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions
        
       Author : ghub-mmulet
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2024-08-10 13:45 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | pixelpoet wrote:
       | Keenan Crane back once again with the ~~renegade master~~ shithot
       | diagrams! For those not familiar, check his publications with
       | ridiculously beautiful diagrams, going way back (I remember when
       | he was maybe best known for a Quaternion Julia tracer, often used
       | to benchmark GPU FLOPs): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/
       | 
       | Also fun for topological nightmare enjoyers is his "Yeah Right"
       | model on
       | https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/ModelRepository/ (img
       | link:
       | https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/ModelRepository/yea...)
        
         | littlestymaar wrote:
         | Eh, the field is called _computer graphics_ , so having nice
         | _graphs_ is to be expected isn 't it?
        
           | _a_a_a_ wrote:
           | 'graphics' yes, but 'nice' would be nice because they often
           | aren't.
        
             | littlestymaar wrote:
             | That was just a lame pun, but looks like HN doesn't like my
             | sense of humor.
        
       | nimish wrote:
       | Cool as hell. Keenan Crane has excellent YouTube series on
       | discrete differential geometry and computer graphics.
       | 
       | Hopefully this will lead to nicer physics graphics since harmonic
       | functions are everywhere.
        
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