SignedDistanceFields.jl provides primitive Signed Distance functions in 3 dimensions and ways to combine them. The resulting scene tree can be turned into a single Julia function which has all relevant information inlined and is in something approximating static single assigment form. This allows for faster execution then walking a tree with each call of the signed distance function of the total scene. In the future running these functions on the GPU or implementing scene graph specific optimization are possible.

A simple raymarching engine with a scene and some simple shaders are provided in the example folder.

Build a scene tree by combining primitives

scene = SUnion((Trans(Sphere(5*sqrt(2),4),space(0.0,-10.0,0.0)),
    Trans(Sphere(5*sqrt(2),5),space(0.0,5.0,8.66)),
    Trans(Sphere(5*sqrt(2),6),space(0.0,5.0,-8.66)),
    Plane(space(1.0,0.0,0.0),2),
    RepQ(Trans(Sphere(0.5,1),space(2.5,2.5,2.5)),5.0),
    Trans(Sphere(10.5,3),space(0.0,0.0,0.0))))

Turn the scene in to a SingFunc struct which is an array of Julia Expresseion and an initial symbol.

SF = to_code(scene)

Decice whether you want to evaluate it for a certain value exec(SF,value) or if want to build a function func(SF,:Type). Please note due to historic reasons :Type is restricted to the space type provided by the package (which is SVector{3,Float64} )

] add MacroTools, StaticArrays, LinearAlgebra, Images, ColorVectorSpace, Colors, Dates

Should get you all dependencies for the example.

We have no tests yet.

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• Julia - tested and developed on 1.0.4
• stubGPUentry - GPU depedencies would go here, right now it runs on the CPU

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We use SemVer for versioning.

• Johann-Tobias Schäg - Initial work - Github: freemin7

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

This project is licensed under the Zero-Clause BSD License - see the LICENSE.md file for details. If you hate this license open an issue.

• Mason Protter for helping me with a few Julia snippets the night i wrote it
• The general #helpdesk Slack channel from the Julia Slack
• Inigo Quilez and his website with a few inspirational articles
• Nicolau Leal Werneck for liking it which pushed me to spend the hours