Simple outline shader for 3D models using STENCIL and INVERTED HULL techniques. The outline vertex shader uses 'normal' to move the vertices along their normal vector. For objects with sharper corners ...

Last October, U.S. troops demonstrated just how far additive manufacturing has come by successfully 3D printing drone parts inside a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter mid-flight. As the aircraft carried out ...

The shader has options for transparency alpha clipping, vertex snapping, affine texture mapping, and fog using fixed-point math. Note: This is a work in progress so updates will be frequent, but every ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel to do it for you! Ray marching is a ...

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If 2025 belonged to anyone it was the KPop Demon Hunters. The animated movie became Netflix's most unexpected hit, becoming ...

What are the best Minecraft texture packs? These colorful and game-altering texture packs can make your world a new experience. Of course, Minecraft's low-fi charm is part of the draw, but texture ...

What are the best Minecraft shaders? With shaders, you can instantly level up the look of your Minecraft world, even without an expensive graphics card. But with so many downloadable mods for the ...

3D mammograms can find more cancers than 2D mammograms alone. 3D mammograms are better at finding tumors in dense breast tissue. Combining 3D and 2D mammograms gives a higher radiation dose. There are ...

Looking at something that’s more real and is happening right before your eyes can have its own charm. These days, movies have so much CGI and so much more to them that we can’t replace them with stage ...

A 3D shape with all straight edges and flat faces is a polyhedron. Other 3D shapes with least one curved surface are not polyhedra. A 3D shape with regular polygonal faces, meeting at equal angles, is ...