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How to retrieve a mask for a partially filled 3D Truncated SDF based on its ground truth?
I am trying to create a mask which is required for a 3D inpainting task. My data contains 3D truncated SDF grid of size 64*64*64 with a truncated value of ...
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Clip Space View Frustrum Culling Not Working Properly
I don't understand why this happening. I included the code that I am using to check if a vertex is inside the view frustum.
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Unable to compute fresnel reflections properly
I am implementing fresnel reflections for materials in my renderer.
According to this source, here the look I should obtain when rendering a sphere over a grey background:
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Does fresnel reflection make sense for metals?
I am implementing fresnel reflections for materials in my renderer.
Does it make sense for metals?
Here my implementation:
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How to avoid declaring sampler outside of statement?
How can I avoid having to declare the sampler outside of the if statement in this shader code sample?
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Vertex attribute alignment <4 bytes
I know that vertex attributes sourced from vertex buffers in OpenGL need to adhere to the basic alignment requirements of their base types, so e.g. 4 bytes for floats or uints. However, I am unable to ...
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Partial Derivatives of Spherical Angles and Refracted Ray w.r.t Surface u,v
I am reading on "Specular Manifold Sampling" paper with the implementaion(for the simple case) here on Mitsuba at github. As part of the calculation it needs to compute
partial derivatives ...
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interpolated normal vectors after tessellation. How to hash patch corner / edge vertices?
I have a 3D geometry (an asteroid) that is to be tessellated with respect to the camera position. Each vertex in the original mesh has a unique position and is stored once (VBO with IBO)
In the ...
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Does a BSP tree need to be rebuilt every time the camera's position changes?
I'm not a computer graphics engineer. I'm more of a quality engineer (primary language is C++). I've just started learning by myself about acceleration structures in computer graphics, especially ...
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Random spaces between textures
I am trying to make Terraria like game using WGPU and rust. There are gaps between tiles. The gaps are bigger and more common as I get far from world center. I've read that nearest filtering should ...
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Path tracer -- How to debug erroneous behaviour?
Edit: I've pinpointed the problem. If I change:
local_colour *= (rayPayload.color.r*mask.r + rayPayload.color.g*mask.g + rayPayload.color.b*mask.b);
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How are strings for debugPrintfEXT handled in glsl?
Glsl does not support string / char data types, but obviously debugPrintfEXT works and takes some form of string. How are these handled in glsl?
Ideally I would ...
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Confusion regarding incident direction in render equation
I am studying from pbrt-v3 and the rendering equation has just been introduced as
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\underbrace{L_\mathrm{o}(\mathrm{p},\omega_\mathrm{o})}_\text{Outgoing radiance }=\underbrace{L_\mathrm{e}(\mathrm{...
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Faring a region of a mesh connecting two curves
In the book Polygon Mesh Processing, there is a section dedicated to fairing. In particular page 59 has this lovely figure:
I am specially interested in the rightmost image. According to the text ...
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How is HTML Alpha-Blending Different than GIMP?
I have some graphic drawings of the floors of a hours that I want to display on a web page. Drawn in GIMP, there are several layers all with "normal" mode:
From bottom to top, the layers ...
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Does CMYK values provide more colors than RGB?
We know that in the RGB system we have three primary colors and each of them has a value from $0$ to $255$ (or $256$ values in total). So all possible colors are $256^{3}=16777216$.
But in the CMYK ...
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How can I understand the logic of Fast Point Feature Histograms (FPFH) descriptor?
I have been using FPFH features quite a lot in global registration and key-point extraction a lot, I also looked pcl page that tries to explain what it is, but fails to give detail to reader in my ...
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How to transform face mesh?
We can use ARcore to create custom textures and 3D models for Augmented Faces, like the augmentation of a Fox ears. But aside from augmenting 3D objects, can we "transform" facemesh, for ...
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Can Vulkan Queue Families be separate but identical?
I was trying to find examples of GPUs with more than 3 queue families to see what edge cases programmatic selection of compute and transfer queues might encounter.
This card has six. Two of the extra ...
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Is it possible to read arbitrary data at arbitrary array offset in glsl?
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In a Vulkan / GLSL ray tracing program, I have several shader files, all accessing the same material buffer of arbitrary data. All materials have an arbitrary layout, e.g. one might be a float, ...
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What is a smart way to fill in the 'next' pointer of a opposite half-edge of a boundary?
I was reading this question regarding half edges from 3 years ago and the selected answer seemed pretty smart to me. However, while actually implementing it I'm confused at the part where I have to ...
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Need help understanding this simplification/optimization for a very basic GLSL shader
i'm currently following a tutorial on youtube to get started with computer graphics (shaders) and it contains the following GLSL code:
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JPEG Corrupted file fixing
I had an old, broken hard disk containing a lot of JPEG files.
I took that hard to an information recovery company.
The company was able to extract part of the files well, But there are many others ...
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Best approach for slicing texture images for raycasting
I'm working on a 2D (pseudo-3D) raycaster which operates on a 2D tile grid.
For each ray sent out, the screen draws a rectangle with a certain height depending on the distance between the camera and ...
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How to find point on mesh at a minimum distance from ray
I'm searching for an efficient data structure and algorithm to compute the minimum distance between a ray and a set of meshes in 3D.
What I expect as a result are the coordinates of the nearest point ...
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re-writing the rasterizer of a pipeline
I have designed my graphics pipeline, actually similar to what exists now, you know, vertex shader, then rasterizer, interpolation, fragment shader and so on. But, some stuff are changed in my ...
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Conditionally sample from texture in shader
I'm building a little 2D graphics library in Rust/WGPU as a means to learn graphics programming. I want to draw an outline around a shape and specify the outline's color. All of my shapes have a ...
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Vulkan backward-only path tracer with caustics
TL;DR -- who has discovered, in the past, a backward-only path tracer that generates caustics not needing extra convergence of any kind? I'm collecting similar algorithms, in order to fully understand ...
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How to measure distortion of a parametrization?
If you have a map from a mesh into the 2D plane. How do you measure its distortion? I know that theoretically what you do is express the differential map of the transformation then use SVD to figure ...
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Sampling scattering direction around directions other than the last ray direction
In a path tracer, if we want to sample a ray direction in scattering medium, we can use phase function sampling, which actually use the direction of the ray before sampling as a sort of anchor to ...
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Avoiding gimbal lock in spherical movement around an object - Python
I am programming a camera viewer in Python to move around an object on a sphere given YPR Euler angles (intrinsic) from the user.
Everything seemed nice until I pitched the camera 90 degrees up/down. ...
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AMD GPU specific triangles disappearing by subsequent draw calls in same frame
we have a Windows/DirectX11 2D Renderer that paints textured triangles to the screen from back to front. There is no face-culling or depth test activated.
Now on AMD GPUs it happens randomly that an ...
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Object appears in unintended parts of the screen when using manual WorldToScreenPoint
Hy guys I'm new to 3d graphics and i lack some Linear algebra knowledge. I tried to recreate Unity's worldToScreenPoint method with kotlin on android. I copied some code from their forum and wrote ...
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HTML Canvas not drawing
I'm working on a 3D Renderer with the canvas element and JS but currently the cube I made is not rendering. I currently have it set to just render a wireframe of the cube and am hoping to render the ...
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How to calculate ray-origin and ray-direction in vertex shader working universally for any projection and using interpolators for performance
I have been reading and watching many raymarching tutorials, but almost all of them are only working in the perspective projection. Almost all assume, that to calculate the ray direction, you just ...
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Tessellation evaluation shader: vertex duplicates on triangle tessellation
I was very surprised when I ran my tessellation evaluation shader, which only counts the number of vertices through an atomicAdd command.
for the following tessellation levels:
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GLSL get min/max index of vec3
I have written a function in GLSL that returns the min index (index 0 is the x component, 1 is the y component, and 2 is the z component) of a vec3 variable.
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OpenGL texture unit bindings - Why is a single texture mapped to both texture units when each are individually assigned?
I am using NVIDIA Nsight to debug my OpenGL state. In the screenshots below:
I generate a single texture with the ID 10.
I activate ...
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Questions about equi-angular sampling
Equiangular sampling is a sampling method for point (sphere) emitter in scattering medium. While it claims to be very efficient when dealing with point (sphere) emitter in scattering medium (see this ...
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Precision errors with raytracing normal
I'm writing a raytracer in Java that draws a scene containing the elliptic paraboloid defined by the equation $F(x,y,z)=x^2+z^2-y=0$, as well as the hyperbolic paraboloid defined by $G(x,y,z)=x^2-z^2-...
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Is MultiDrawElementsBaseVertex bound by index type?
With glMultiDrawElementsBaseVertex it becomes possible to render multiple sets of indices in one draw call. When using for instance ...
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enumerate vertices from tessellation evaluation stage (Triangle patch)
Is there any way to enumerate the generated vertices of a tessellation patch (triangles only) inside the tessellation evaluation shader? The tessellation levels will only be integer values with ...
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Volumetric mesh processing: impact of facet removal on connectedness?
I am working with volumetric meshes - meshes that have vertices (0-cell), edges (1-cell), facets (2-cells) and volumes (3-cells) - and I'm interested in removing facets without breaking connectedness.
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How to interpolate alpha from CURRENT_ALPHA to TARGET_ALPHA for each pixel in shader language? (Godot/GLSL)
I want to make "trails" of objects on my shader that appear and disappear gradually.
I am getting pixels (for fragment shader) where objects are from uniform texture.
Basically, I have my ...
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Vulkan Syscalls
I'm working on educating myself more about computer graphics, and the more I learn and play with the technology, the more I get frustrated by the dependencies on C++ (even though I know why it exists)....
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tilling the Hyperbolic plane
i am trying to tile a hyperbolic plane using the poincaré or Beltrami–Klein disk model. I am doing it recursively and i don't know how to detect overlapping tiles. I think they are causing bugs ...
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Find good gl_TessLevel for edge distance and edge length
I have a triangular mesh that is read from an ".obj" file and is to be tessellated with respect to the camera position.
I try to avoid T-junctions by tessellating common edges with the same ...
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What algorithms are typically used for finding 'PCB Trace'-like paths?
I am analyzing a large amount of Layers 0-4 Network Data. I am trying to render diagrams dynamically showing the Network Devices involved in the data (Desktop, Switch, Router, Server, etc.) and how ...
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Can raytracing be used to determine a certain gas distribution in a real planet's atmosphere?
I want to calculate the capacity that the planet Mars has regarding protecting against UV-light for a final project I will be doing my last year in upper secondary school. UV-light is mainly absorbed ...
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White spots when rendering diffuse material with environment light
I am trying to implement a simple shader. A round ball object is rendered with uniform albedo and I noticed some strange white spots on the outputs.
I perform importance sampling with 512 light ...
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