Dylan Beattie - It's So Shiny! A Pure JavaScript Ray-Tracer

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It's hard to imagine a world without computer generated imagery. Films, television, games, art, advertising... CGI gives artists, designers, and film-makers the tools to bring fantastic fictional worlds to life. And while it wasn't all that long ago that rendering photorealistic images required a supercomputer, today we can do it right in our browser. In this session, Dylan Beattie will explain the principles behind ray-tracing, the technique behind most modern computer graphics. - and then, using modern JavaScript APIs like web workers, clamped arrays and ES modules, we'll create a pure JavaScript ray tracer that runs directly in your browser. We'll learn how to simulate lighting, shading, reflection, and visual effects to create photo-realistic scenes, we'll dust off some gnarly mathematics that you probably haven't seen since high school and find out that it's actually pretty useful after all, and we'll create a whole lot of pictures of shiny things.
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@edgeeffect 10 ай бұрын

I didn't come for "ray tracer", even though I do like them. Nor did I come for "javascript", even though I like that a lot too. Neither did I come for "shiny" because I'm pretty agnostic about that. I came because it says "Dylan Beattie" and I know that indicates a very entertaining talk, whatever the subject.

@edgeeffect 8 ай бұрын

Although I'd love to have a drunken chat with Dylan about his dubious choice of JS paradigms and the flaws in his history of mathematics.

@sfdntk 4 ай бұрын

Damn straight. One of Dylan's talks showed up randomly in my feed a week ago, and since that day I've watched at least a dozen more. I just can't get enough of his stuff, even when he's talking about things I know back to front he still manages to find a way to make it engaging, interesting, and informative.

@eduardpaul8413 5 ай бұрын

Excellent talk! I wish some of my computer graphics lectures at university were that helpful, let alone entertaining.

@alexanderilin8720 7 ай бұрын

I talk worth repeating.

@DavidLindes 5 ай бұрын

Haha, I didn't appreciate this comment fully until I got to about 50:06 or soon after. I thought it was just some Q&A session or something, but no, the talk is duplicated. Oops. :)

@OrigamiMarie 10 ай бұрын

It rendered in several seconds on my Android phone. Worked fine!

@gbeziuk 7 ай бұрын

Brilliant talk, as usual! BTW, in case you suffer flashbacks from cross products, or are interested in better ways of doing computer graphics related math, you might want to look up Geometric Algebra and ganja.js. I promise, you'll really, really enjoy it. Who knows, maybe the next version of the JS Ray-Tracer will be using GA.

@DavidLindes 5 ай бұрын

Funny to have this turn up on my recommends like a day or two after picking up a copy of "The Ray Tracer Challenge", by Buck. I've started reading the front matter, but haven't yet gotten to the code. Now I'm lead to believe I should have it all done in under 2 hours?? ;)