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by asqueella 137 days ago
The explanation that made it click for me a while ago was by someone who implemented a shader https://www.alanzucconi.com/2017/10/10/atmospheric-scatterin... — the explanations that don't end up producing an image all seemed to skip over one detail or another.
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> the explanations that don't end up producing an image all seemed to skip over one detail or another.

Implementation can be wonderfully useful as both a test of, and a forcing function for, really understanding something. At least when ground-truth (ie tests) is available.