Inigo Quilez is the founder of Shadertoy and one of the most influential human on this planet when it comes to procedural generation and rendering techniques. In this discussion we go over Pixar, general rendering ideas, mathematics, the history of Shadertoy and so on. To be honest, this was a Continue Reading
Episode 15: New season and Peter Shirley in the studio.
Peter Shirley is a Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA and adjunct professor at the University of Utah in computer science. He has made extensive contributions to interactive photorealistic rendering. He wrote a wide variety of books on the field on rendering, notably on ray tracing. To be honest, I could have Continue Reading
The history of the world famous Utah Teapot and Martin Newell!
We love shaders, we love maths and we love coffee, but why the hell did the Utah Teapot became the Utah Teapot as a standard in renderer? But what is a renderer? (computer graphics) A software or hardware process that generates a visual image from a model. Looking at the official source of common Wikipedia, we have this very Continue Reading
Why The Smiths played a key role in my life and how they still influence GenZ
The rain pouring down on the window of my 3rd floor window on a hot summer night, making me think about the general idea on how some music transcend generational concepts and make itself as relevant with time passing by. I won’t lie and pretending I am an hardcore fan Continue Reading
How to make lighting in Ray-Marching. Implementing a Lambertian model.
Been a while since I wrote an article on lighting and ray-marching, so I decided to write one on how to set-up a basic Lambertian light algorithms. All the code and the final shader are available on my ShaderToy page, anyways, let’s dive in. We will use Ray-Marching using 2 Continue Reading
Episode 3: The Jai Paul data leak, stolen hardware, the returns of the artist.
What happened at Jai Paul, of the artist that had such a promising future after releasing only 2 songs? The electronic music producer had a promising future, with medias claiming his talent, making it the next big star in the field of audio production. From all this light and love, Continue Reading