resources

Resources either directly contributing to the code, or are just interesting finds while researching.

• Noise

  • Perlin Noise

    • Perlin Worms

    • Perline Noise Chapter 5 from "Ray Tracing The Next Week by Peter Shirley

    • Improving Noise By Ken Perlin

      • Java Implementation

      • C# Implementation by Keijiro

  • Worley/Cellular Noise

  • Book of Shaders on Noise

  • Simplex Noise

  • Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise generator by Steven Wittens

  • Tiling Noise

    • Tiling Noise by Ronja

    • gamedev.stackexchange How do you generate tileable Perlin noise?

• Sampling and Distribution

  • Quasirandom

    • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences

  • Vose Alias Weighted Sampling

    • "Darts, Dice, and Coins: Sampling from a Discrete Distribution" Keith Schwarz

    • Wikipedia

    • "Parallel Weighted Random Sampling" Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider Peter Sanders

    • C# Sample Implementation

    • Go Sample Implementation

  • Temperature

    • "Fiddling Weights with Temperature" by Boris the Brave

  • Triangle

    • Evenly Distributing Points in a Triangle

    • "A Low-Distortion Map Between Triangle and Square" by Eric Heitz

    • "Adventures in Sampling Points on Triangles (Part 1)" by Matt Phar

    • "Adventures in Sampling Points on Triangles (Part 1.5): Reader Mail and Followups" by Matt Phar

• Triangulation

  • Delaunay

    • Bowyer–Watson

      • A short video overview

      • General Algorithm Description

    • Constraint/Refinement

      • Computing Constrained Delaunay Traingulations By Samuel Peterson

    • 3 Points To Create a Circle

  • Chew's Second Algorithm

  • Polygons

    • Wikipedia

    • Fast Polygon Triangulation Based on Seidel's Algorithm By Atul Narkhede and Dinesh Manocha

    • Triangulating a Monotone Polygon

  • Spheres

    • UV, Ico, Quad

• Texturing

  • Normal Map From Color Map

• Formats

  • OBJ/MTL

    • jburkardt MTL

    • Excerpt from FILE FORMATS, Version 4.2 October 1995 MTL

  • Just a ton of formats

  • GLTF

    • 2.0 Repo

    • Animations

    • Full 2.0 Spec

    • Viewer for Skeleton

• Generative Techniques

  • Country Flags by vividfax

  • Snow by Ryan King

  • Terrain

    • World Gen by Leather Bee

    • Procedural Hydrology: Dynamic Lake and River Simulation By: Nicholas McDonald

    • The Canyons of Your Mind By JonathanCR

    • Simulating hydraulic erosion By Job Talle

    • Coastal Landforms for Fantasy Mapping

  • Planet

    • Planet Generation

    • Procedural Gas Giant Planet Textures

  • Taming Randomness

  • Plants

    • Algorithmic Botany

      • A common developmental program can produce diverse leaf shapes by Adam Runions1, Miltos Tsiantis and Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz

      • L-SYSTEMS: FROM THE THEORYTO VISUAL MODELS OF PLANTS by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewiczy, Mark Hammely, Jim Hananz, and Radomir Mechy

    • L-System User Notes Written by Paul Bourke

    • L System On Wikipedia

    • An Introduction to Lindenmayer Systems by Gabriela Ochoa

  • Subdivision

    • "Exploring Rectangle Subdivisions" by Boris The Brave

    • "Recursive Subdivision Variants" by Boris The Brave

    • "Recursive bisection with a twist" by Oleg Dolya

    • "A Better Recursive Division Algorithm" by Jamis Buck

  • WFC

    • "The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm explained very clearly" - Robert Heaton

    • Source code for "The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm explained very clearly"

• Voronoi

  • Voronoi Edges by Inigo Quilez

• Functions / Curves / Animation Lines

  • Interpolation and Animation

  • Cubic Bézier by Maxime

• Marching Cubes / SDFs

  • LUT

  • Coding Adventure: Marching Cubes By Sebastian Lague

  • SDFs

  • Fast 2D SDF

  • Got Subtraction from Here

• Collisions

  • Closest point on Triangle

• Ray Tracing

  • Ray Tracing in One Weekend by Peter Shirley

  • Ray Tracing: The Next Week

  • Möller-Trumbore Ray-Triangle Intersection

  • Simulating the Colors of The Sky

• Math

  • Mat3x3 => Quaternion from Blender Source

• Skinning Volumetric Heat Diffusion Skinning by Wolfire Games

• Color Space

  • Threejs on Color Management

  • Threejs Colorspace conversion

  • Bartosz Ciechanowski on Color Spaces

• UV Unwrapping

  • "ABF++ : Fast and Robust Angle Based Flattening" Alla Sheffer Bruno Levy Maxim Mogilnitsky Alexander Bogomyakov

  • OptCuts: Joint Optimization of Surface Cuts and Parameterization

    • Source Code

    • Paper

  • "Variational Surface Cutting" by Sharp & Crane, SIGGRAPH 2018

    • Source Code

    • Paper

  • Boundary First Flattening by Rohan Sawhney and Keenan Crane.

    • Source Code

    • Paper

• Drawing a Line

  • Did not expect to need to look that up

  • Bresenham's line algorithm (Aliased)

  • Xiaolin Wu's line algorithm (Anti-Aliased)

• Materials

  • The PBR Guide Part 2

• Flow Based Programming

  • Wikipedia Article

  • Repositories

    • Scipipe

    • Flowbase

    • Goflow

    • Gofbp

    • flow-based-programming

  • Articles

    • Flow-based Programming by J Paul Rodker Morrison

• Guassian Splatting

  • https://github.com/antimatter15/splat

  • https://github.com/mkkellogg/GaussianSplats3D

  • https://github.com/shg8/VulkanSplatting

  • Making Gaussian Splats Smaller by Aras Pranckevičius

  • Gaussian Explosion by Aras Pranckevičius

  • Rotating

    • Thread on Rotating

    • Winger D Matrix Wikipedia Article (required for rotating spherical harmonics)

• Coloring Stuff

  • Color Grading LUT

    • 3D Game Shaders For Beginners - Lookup Table (LUT) by David Lettier

  • Chromatic Aberration

    • TomasHubelbauer/canvas-chromatic-aberration

• Point Cloud Rendering

  • "Real-time Rendering of Massive Unstructured Raw Point Clouds using Screen-space Operators" Ruggero Pintus, Enrico Gobbetti, and Marco Agus

  • "Raw point cloud deferred shading through screen space pyramidal operators" Hassan Bouchiba, Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud, Francois Goulette

  • "THE PULL-PUSH ALGORITHM REVISITED" Martin Kraus

• Morton Encoding

  • "Morton encoding/decoding through bit interleaving: Implementations" Jeroen Baert's Blog

    • Code