Auto exposure, courtesy of Claude running in the background while I do other things - still needs a lot of tuning, but I'll do that later when I can give it more attention.

goodnight

Accumulating multiple samples per pixel in the ray traced path now. (Not TAA, no reprojection - just to get cleaner reference stills.)

If you think you can tell AI generated stuff from human stuff: 1) No, you can't. I've seen so many people lash out at actual artists for using AI when they _haven't_. You're hurting the people you're trying to evangelise for. None of us want it. Stop.

As an aside; since switching from rust_gpu to Slang, shader development has been going a ton smoother. I suppose it really does help to use something that is both reasonably complete and reasonably documented after all. (I never got to the point of sharing any Rust code because of the toolchain.)

Now rendering albedo, normal and combined AO/emissive maps in the ray tracing path! Still no water pass as that's more complex to pull off. Next up: going to start setting up a proper tonemapping pipeline and get some antialiasing in there.

Building the ray tracing acceleration structure on the fly from actual voxel data.

One year ago; the original ray-traced lighting solution I was tinkering with for Cavey. Funny that exactly one year later, I'm still playing with rays.

2048x512x2048 GPU voxel ray tracing renderer test.

Oh shoot I guess it’s time to follow it up with something more profound…. lets see…. WGSL is terrible and badly equipped for anything GPU driven. But I still haven’t found a shader language I like, so maybe that makes it relatively less bad. Subscribe for more insightful video essays or whatever.

Anyhow, for my first post… Having an opinion about AI is not a replacement for a personality trait. It’s a complex, nuanced, multifaceted issue with real world weight. I don’t care *what* your opinion is - even in my field, reasonable people don’t agree on fundamentals here - I care about *why*.

Back again to do this social media thing the healthy way. After living without people’s unsolicited opinions filling up every minute of my day, my life was measurably improved. But I must blast my own unsolicited opinions into the ether because they’re better, of course. (I jest. I am a dork.)