Zen photon garden(zenphoton.com)
zenphoton.com
Zen photon garden
http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgagANAfEBpwJeAPz/AAAB9wHCAWQBXv8AAAGVARoB7gDV/wAAATAA/AD2AaL/AAACpwEFAa4Aiv8AAAGcAf4CLQHM/wAAAWgBOwF3ALf/AAAB8wGAArwBif8AAAH1AToCoAHF/wAAA2gA2gNkAWL/AAADnwIfA8MBxv8AAAD0AhQApgHL/wAAASsAQQCmAN7/AAA=
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absolutely stunning
With a bit of imagination, you can create scenes that look like they belong in a movie. This thing is wonderful
http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgcAAOAdEA6wHRAVVjUiUB0QDsAi...
http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgcAAOAdEA6wHRAVVjUiUB0QDsAi...
It would be awesome to have a little blog post about why and how, this is very cool tech! I'm lazy I don't want to go read the code, I want a beautiful and clear explanation with pictures
And about the what. What exactly am I looking at? All I can tell is it has something to do with the physics of light. What assumptions are made? What models are used?
I like how having a lot of random stuff ends up making some natural-looking textures: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgdwAeAAsAKgArABMA/wAASgH9AF...
I wish there was a "best of" for this. I don't have the arts enough to make anything visually pleasing and would love to see the results of those that do.
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Artistic interpretation [1] of the Triforce:
http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgagAHAAABegQqAXgA/wABFwGJAg...
[1]: Have no right calling myself an artist of any sort, especially when I can't draw straight lines.
http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgagAHAAABegQqAXgA/wABFwGJAg...
[1]: Have no right calling myself an artist of any sort, especially when I can't draw straight lines.
I particularly like the "exposure" slider on the righthand side. That's a neat UI element I intend to borrow.
Fantastic! I particularly like encoding the state in the URL - makes it very easy to share good designs you've built.
Am I going mad or is this a re-submission?
It is a re-submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983421
The model doesn't seem precise - there is no light diffraction. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_diffraction_formu...
My first reaction was to try the double-slit experiment, but unfortunately there was no interference pattern. Beautiful none the less. (Ok, a little less.)
That's not surprising. The double-slit experiment was used to prove the wave behavior of the light. Ray tracing simulates the photon/ray behavior.
Very nice, although it took me a few minutes to figure out how it works.
I wish you could save a high resolution PNG.
I dont understand what's going on ...
It's an interactive raytracing demonstration. Draw on it, and watch it simulate light diffusion, reflection, and transmission. It's pretty straightforward, actually.
Add refraction, I want to make a laser.
really cool!
Why reboot your computer when you can just load this demo and up the settings!?!
This was created by someone the last time this was on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983421