Rendering an implicit surface: 45 minutes for one clip even with custom Metal renderer
keenanisalive · x · 2026-10-10
In Keenan Crane's implicit-surface dragon thread: visualizing the implicit surface was extremely expensive — even with a custom Metal renderer to keep his machine from crashing, one clip took 45 minutes to render, and he ended up meshing the surface just to inspect it. See the thread's first post for full context.
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