Sphere Flake with raytracing

[caballero]

Another texture for spheres: Perlin's marble

[caballero]

One step more. A bitmap file mapped on an sphere. In the pic, the Perlin marble and the world map and a few small balls.

What the f**k, this deserves a tune.

[HSE]

Better this to show your images   
 (note the play between the camera and Asja Kadric)

[caballero]

That's a very good music. One of the Epic Music as you said. I like it a lot.

[Siekmanski]

Hi caballero,

Awesome results. 
Have you looked into ray marching? It's faster than ray tracing.
Ray marching is a specific algorithm, a variant on ray casting where samples are taken down a line to test for intersections or other criteria.
This is easier to implement and allows for speed optimizations via number of samples.
I'm studying pixel shaders at the moment and have the basic code running now.
This is really cool stuff.

[caballero]

I didn't know anything about ray marching, I will have a look to it as soon as I can. I am a heavy block that has difficulty moving , I need to go little by little. My intention was to learn as much as possible of ray tracing and then get it to move fluently to make some demo.

Yes, shaders coding are really cool, I have seen some awesome demos with that. I'm waiting for your news .

[Siekmanski]

I'm new to this topic and have much to learn.
There are some great ray marching examples to learn from on https://www.shadertoy.com/
And there are some tutorials on youtube too.

[caballero]

Related to shaders, ray tracing, etc, this is a recurrent page, by Íñigo Quilez

[Siekmanski]

Íñigo Quílez is one of the best Demo programmers in the world, Shadertoy is build by him too.
His nick name is IQ.
This is his contribution at Breakpoint 2009 and the winning 4k intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YWMGuh15nE

[caballero]

Impressive what fit in just 4kb, if I'm not wrong, the sound is produced also by the code

[Siekmanski]

Impressive what fit in just 4kb, if I'm not wrong, the sound is produced also by the code

Yeah, it's all in those 4kb
They use a "linker-cruncher" named crinkler to compress the code. www.crinkler.net

[caballero]

Penumbra and two kind of light sources. Maybe a bit imprecise yet.

[caballero]

Evidentelly, increasing the number of rays, increases the definition of the image. But I wonder if this is the desirable technique or rather to ensure that the rays do not overlap, which in itself would require more cycle. Or perhaps the use of a random number generation function more prone to generate different numbers.
 Valerie

[HSE]

Perhaps worth the price seconfd option 

Trying to escape from the 80's you sended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJboSby7nW0

[caballero]

Nice video . You have some musical instruments with which you expect a certain type of sound, wonderful by the way, but from which you can extract another completely different, unexpected and also great, right? Which reminds me of this scene from the movie "top secret"