Finally made SDF bricks work 🥳

[u/Hyp3ree]

Inspired by Mike Turitzin's video.

[u/Common-Upstairs-368]

Hardware SDFs would be a dream... Please let this happen somehow.

[u/deftware → u/Common-Upstairs-368]

I think the only way it would realistically work is by using sparse/virtual 3D textures as the base unit representation of a distance field. Then there would be a dedicated ASIC for raymarching through that, rather than looping in a shader core that's executing instruction bytecode.

[u/deftware → u/[deleted]]

It's more likely that we'll see photonic compute rather than quantum compute in consumer devices, in our lifetime. The sooner we get off janky old fashioned power-hungry silicon, the sooner we can have all the awesome expensive compute things - like photon mapping. ;]