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Ball Pit

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Comments (40)

  • verytrivial
    For some context, I think this is by mr.doob of three.js fame.
  • chrysoprace
    What a time to be alive. It runs surprisingly smooth on Firefox/Linux and doesn't appear to put much strain on my 9070 XT.
  • RankingMember
    > The babies look unhappy> Add more ballsFun simulation. The novelty of stuff like this still hasn't worn off for me in this era where we've got ray tracing in-browser.
  • simlevesque
    Beware: this might totally freeze your computer like it did for me.
  • p1necone
    This runs pretty smoothly on my middling laptop CPU while looking like a typical raytracing demo. I assume there's some smoke and mirrors involved?
  • hermitcrab
    I'm a C++ programmer and only passingly familiar with web/JS stuff. What libraries/technologies is this using, apart from Javascript and three.js?
  • Rendello
    Beautiful, this must have been an excellent learning experience to make.I've done some very basic rendering code in C from a rendering internals course, and at the same time I'm learning about perspective from the drawing/art side. I wonder how much learning one would help the other, in a practical way.
  • rbosinger
    I opened that on a Pixel 9a and was impressed on how well it worked. There's something neat about this.
  • appstorelottery
    Runs great on MacBook Air M1! Super!
  • TacticalCoder
    I have fond memories of visiting a university in the early 90s on a demo day and there was a (physical) sphere in a Cornell box:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_boxAnd next to it was a super beefy computer doing a 3D rendering of a similar scene.35 years+ later I've got "many spheres in a Cornell box" rendering in my browser, love it : )
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  • CodeWriter23
    I was able to get all the balls stuck on the 'ceiling'. Bug or feature?
  • slopinthebag
    It's cool but shockingly slow for an SSGI implementation, especially without any denoising.
  • jessepasley
    Is this marketing for the Shape Store? It's cool but I still don't know when my area is getting a Shape Store.
  • artursapek
    that's amazing. it runs so smoothly on my M4 Pro
  • newobj
    path tracer?