Coding a Brick Tower [video]

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15 points | by tobr 1 day ago

1 comments

petermcneeley 1 hour ago
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/33GyRV
It runs at 10fps on my gen12 intel at fullscreen. These techniques are cute but limited.
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- aulit 43 minutes ago
  To be fair you can optimize this a bunch if you put in the effort. Sphere tracing is far from optimal for ray marching.
  edit: see https://hal.science/hal-05308455v1
- starkrights 1 hour ago
  Ran at ~15-16 fps on my iPhone 17 air, horizontally (2211x1245) , for about a minute until my phone got ridiculously hot and thermal throttled down to 10-12fps.
- kg 35 minutes ago
  SDF techniques are widely used in real games, even if a shadertoy put together in an hour or two doesn't run well on low spec hardware.
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  - petermcneeley 33 minutes ago
    As a general technique yes. Less so as "create a model or entire world out of an sdf equation."
    Btw to me this is one of the best of IQ: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ttSWf