Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

(blog.maximeheckel.com)

127 points | by ibobev 1 hour ago

7 comments

  • baliex 6 minutes ago
    This is absolutely fantastic.

    I've thought before about trying to render skies on the web as a series of gradients overlaid on top of one another. I expect I could have had some level of success and gotten some mediocre results, but it would be nothing compared to what you've created.

    Thank you so much for sharing this; it's inspirational, must have taken you a very long time to put together, and I'm blown away by your results.

  • etra0 26 minutes ago
    I saw this a while ago so it might not be totally related, but Sebastian Lague did a video on atmospheres for his planet generation experiment which was also very entertaining to watch [1].

    There's something particularly entertaining on developing visuals and watching them come a reality — I hope at some point be able to experiment in this field.

    [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxfEbulyFcY

  • dinfinity 37 minutes ago
    SpaceEngine is also known for putting quite some effort into this; highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4TjdVAbXks

    https://spaceengine.org/

    • the__alchemist 19 minutes ago
      It's fantastic software that's been around for many years, and has exquisite attention to detail on this and many other topics; this article also reminded me of it!
  • sdoering 1 hour ago
    Wow. This was quite a ride. I only understood maybe 5% - but I was massively impressed.
    • MeshHideaki 22 minutes ago
      Same here. The visuals alone made it worth reading.
      • sdoering 19 minutes ago
        Absolutely. Could not agree more!
  • jeremyscanvic 59 minutes ago
    I wonder how this relates to the Perez All-Weather and Preetham sky models. Not an expert about that but I managed to implement those in the past and it was quite a fun project!

    https://github.com/jscanvic/SkySim

  • gabrielcsapo 29 minutes ago
    Incredible personal website, great post. Super awesome content!
  • mirekrusin 1 hour ago
    Gem.

    Flat earth version for comparison would be fun.