This technique, due to the unique limitation of the children's drag-and-drop coding platform, Scratch, has made it proliferate in the 3D community. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1203675921 is an example of such a project.
I think this is particular to auto-partitioning BSPs where the splitting planes are aligned with scene geometry.
Does anyone know how those Minecraft realistic rendering mods work? I'm guessing today there's a lot of RTX, but e.g. in 2018 there was still fairly impressive global illumination in SEUS Renewed. Minecraft is the definition of a world with dynamic geometry, and I'm not aware of any decent realtime GI algorithms for 3d. The lighting in base Minecraft is a super basic and ugly hack. I've seen Unity's dynamic GI features and those are nowhere near as good either.
Voxy's LOD thing... so like, I guess what they do is when you're in an area so that area's high LOD assets are loaded, it computes the lower LOD and saves it, and then as you move around you get a library of more and more lower LODs? And since modifications to geometry only happen when you're nearby the LODs are static? I'd love to see a writeup of that too...
In general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-independent_transparency
https://jacobdoescode.com/2025/05/18/precomputing-transparen...
It inspired me so much back when I was graduating in mathematics, the author is a genius.
- Multi-Fragment Effects on the GPU using the k-Buffer [2]
- Production Volume Rendering [3]
- Translucent Shadow Maps [4]
[1] https://developer.download.nvidia.com/presentations/2007/sig...
[2] https://www.sci.utah.edu/~stevec/papers/kbuffer.pdf
[3] https://graphics.pixar.com/library/ProductionVolumeRendering...
[4] https://www.scribd.com/document/657069029/Translucent-Shadow...
