If you search for SoulerCoaster, you will find a multitude of names for it. It is also named Curvemesh, Splinemesh, or Swoosh.

They describe a technique to visualize magic or energetic effects.

It is defined as two quads that are oriented or…

Additional experiments with volumetric clouds, solved some glitches and managed to mix the clouds with the scene, using the depth of the scene to avoid to show clouds occluded by scene objects (like the terrain). For now I just used a simple 3D perlin noise for the clouds, in the future I plan to t…

Improved bloom + experiments with adaptive exposure.

Bloom is heavily inspired by the method described by Jorge Jimenez in his great slides here: http://www.iryoku.com/next-generation-post-processing-in-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare (starts from slide 144)

A small walk inside my procedurally generated terrain. Rendered in OpenGL.
The terrain was created using multiple layers of perlin noise and applying hydraulic erosion on it.

Grass and flowers are rendered using billboards and instancing.

@code4broke : I like that you are including multiple algorithms for procedural generation in each scene (caves vs buildings).

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Last year, I was looking for a side project to work on that would ideally let me start learning about procedural generation in both an …

Kerria Japonica Procedural Bush Plant Generation in Houdini 18.
The plant is automatically generated using the Houdini Digital Asset

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