AXI Visualizer
The Visualizer uses modern advanced rendering techniques, such as trilinear texture filtering and percentage-closer shadow map filtering.
A full feature list is as follows:
- SSAO
- Dithered 10-bit HDR
- Normal mapping
- Blinn-Phong specular lighting
- Raymarched volumetric lighting
- Tiled Scanline Rasterization
- Screen Space Reflections
- Particle-based cloud rendering with approximate BSDF
- High Dynamic Range rendering
- Reflective Shadowmap GI
- Skeletal animation with interactive bone weight painting, rigging, and posing tools
- Water shaders
- Procedural terrain generation
- Trilinear, bilinear mipmap, and lower-order texture filtering
- Accumulation-buffer Depth of Field screenshots
- Postprocessing effects: edge outlines, full-screen blur, etc.
- Cubemap and planar reflections
- Alpha-enabled textures, fresnel effect, metallic & dielectric materials
- PCF shadow mapping, support for multiple shadow maps
- Lens flares
- Particle systems: single & continuous emission, centripetal & spiral systems
- Directional, hemisphere, point, and spot lights
- Per-pixel & per-vertex Lambert diffuse lighting model
- Heightmap terrain generation & editing tools
- Comprehensive .obj file import and export
- Object transformations
- Automatic texture atlasing
- Skybox
- Gamma correction and tonemapping
From top left, clockwise: raymarched volumetric lighting; clouds with per-pixel lit geometry and alpha shaders; shadow & illumination catcher with HDR skybox; particle systems and point lights.
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AXI Visualizer uses a tiled scanline rasterization engine. Here is how it will work.
Step 1: Triangle setup - projection, frustrum culling. Atomic insert triangle indexes by block depending on projected size.
Step 2: Gather - compact triangle indexes.
Step 3: Coarse rasterization - rasterize indexes into 128-index buffer per 8x8 tile. This entails use of LOD for larger scenes.
Step 4: Fine rasterization - 1 thread per triangle in a tile. Each block works on one tile. Local z-buffer and index-access buffer, if multiple accesses then use local thread index to sequentially determine min depth.
Step 5/0: Clear buffers.
Here are some Depth of Field renders of some Minecraft models.
