Photorealistic 3D Fractals in Desmos 

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@@Radian628 infinite broccoli... solve world hunger?

@@lilmrcalamity5140 but I don't like broccoli!

@@lilmrcalamity5140 technically this broccoli has finite volume but infinite surface area

@@jgtb0pl Infinitr broccoli skin

Square rooting?

@@asheep7797 i like your humor

@@johncharlesxavier9657 I, too like his humor

3:58 cube rooting

@@asheep7797 Was thinking the exact same thing. Shows how all of our individuality disappears the moment we have the chance of a funny joke

Thank you! This means a lot coming from you!

Great to see you here :p

Thanks! Speaking of Doom, I may or may not be making a 3D game in Desmos.

@@Radian628 I think desmos addons may allow for better optimization thus, give you more room for complexity while still having decent 5 fps. Idk if there is already one made but you could just code it yourself too

@@Graverman I think by the time you move towards something like that it would be cheating. sadly :(

Proud to be in the niche

what do you mean "only a very niche group of people"? Literally anyone who watches this will say "holy shit this guy is smart"

@@harrisonclark3799 not everyone is interested in watching people plot fractals using mathematical equations on a website. This kind of content is enjoyed by only a small group of people

@@confused4ever you don’t need to necessarily be into this kind of thing or understand what any of it means in order to appreciate the time and effort put into it, and his presentation is fairly approachable and entertaining even if you have no idea what he’s saying.

yeah dude you know what desmos and a fractal is, is that what you want to hear, you're in the niche, the elite :OOO

That's correct, though there is a plugin in the works to add GPU-based rendering to Desmos: github.com/DesModder/DesModder/releases/tag/v0.7.0-beta

@@Radian628 Nice.

@@Radian628 why don’t you use them 🤔

@@gangel478 The GPU-based rendering plugin (GLesmos) only speeds up the rendering of implicit inequalities- my new renderer uses a fundamentally different method (point grids). Also, while that plugin makes implicit rendering extremely fast, it will only work for other users of the plugin. That's why I decided not to take advantage of it (Though it is pretty cool! It can speed up graphs by a factor of 100 or even 1000)

it's probably pretty inefficient on top of that. I doubt it would take this long with a CPU render in Blender

P.S- this was my first video, I subscribed.

Thank you for the clarification! Yeah, maybe I should have specified that global illumination is only one of raytracing's use cases.

Some games use it for that

Also, RTX specifically isn't simply ray tracing. What makes it special is that it only calculates a small number of rays, which results in a very grainy looking image, then it feeds it into a pre-trained NN running on dedicated hardware which takes the grainy image and fills in the rest with essentially "AI magic". This is why it can do "real time raytracing", because it's not actually calculating all the rays you'd normally need to get images of the quality it produces. So it's not accurate to say you've implemented RTX in Desmos, but it is accurate to say you implemented raytracing, which in itself is impressive enough!

@@qwerty81808 *"RTX specifically isn't simply ray tracing."* No... RTX is Nividias brand-name for their cards with hardware-acceleration for Raytracing. *"it only calculates a small number of rays"* No, it calculates exactly the rays that the developers tell it to calculate (like any other form of raytracing as well) as the ray-creation is entirely the responsibility of the developers. Hence why there are bugs like Battlefield V initially casting more rays than pixels on screen and casting them even outside the visible area. *"which results in a very grainy looking image"* And again No... seems like a trend with what you are saying. *"then it feeds it into a pre-trained NN running on dedicated hardware which takes the grainy image and fills in the rest with essentially "AI magic""* No, that would be a denoiser and is NOT part of the raytracing API. There are many libraries available for that, including from nvidia, but that is not running on dedicated hardware nor is it AI. You are mixing it up with DLSS which is an entirely different thing. *"because it's not actually calculating all the rays"* Again, no, it is calculating every single ray the developers tell it to calculate. it is impressive that while you got CLOSE to reality you still managed to get every single statement you made wrong.

@@ABaumstumpf By the colloquial definition of “AI” that is what powers DLSS. Although it literally says DLSS is “powered by AI” on NVIDIA’s website, it may indeed be more technically accurate to say it’s powered by ML. So at worst you’re flat out wrong about that, or at best being overly pedantic. I’ll admit that I may have mistakenly generalized the features of DLSS and attributed them to RTX in general, however that would really be my only error. It’s kind of silly to write an entire breakdown of exactly how the mix-up of terms (DLSS vs RTX) leads to every single point being inaccurate, when in reality the points are accurate to what I actually meant to describe (DLSS). Saying “you are talking about DLSS, not RTX” would’ve sufficed. Impressive that your need to be seen as smarter than everyone else is so strong you decide to be a condescending pedant and spend multiple paragraphs trying to turn a simple mistake of terminology into a lecture.

I don't blame you- OpenGL is hard. I had to revisit it like 4 or 5 times before I actually understood it.

Thank you! And yeah, CGMatter kind of inspired the way I make these videos.

imma be honest dude if you hadn't posted a shader I would have judged you for using desmos like a noob. Now I can adequately respect the hack.

Thanks! I've had issues with pacing things in the past, so that's good to hear!

more like “I’m fasahfu boi”

this is how you know I'm a programmer and not a mathematician lol

yep!

That is a topic that really interests me, and I have considered that somewhat. Also, I do actually have my own engine already, though this one uses ray marching rather than traditional techniques: radian628.github.io/raymarching-engine/src/viewer.html Source code: github.com/radian628/raymarching-engine

Unfortunately, the way I designed it, the resolution is fixed. Maybe eventually in the future though!

That's actually who I originally found out about 3D fractals from!

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