Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by etaioinshrdlu 2703 days ago
This technique (distance field sphere tracing) was popularized in a big way on the community https://www.shadertoy.com/
1 comments

Inigo Quilez created that site, he could be said to have been the one who really popularised it all. He has a bunch of articles on his site about distance fields:

https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfu...

https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/raymarchingdf/raymarchin...

He also has videos on YouTube, some of which show the creation of a scene starting from the basics.