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Ryan Kaplan
Personal blog · rykap.comprogrammingmath
Ryan Kaplan's personal blog at rykap.com covers programming and math. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ryan Kaplan's posts on distance fields, including a 2D global illumination implementation in Godot and ray marching combined with fonts. Comments only link the posts, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software Engineer at Figma. Previously at Dropbox. Studied Math/CS at Brown University.
Most-linked posts?
- Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-09-23
- Building a Fast Equation Grapher (Part I)2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-04-19
- Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-06
What Hacker News says?
https://www.rykap.com/2020/09/23/distance-fields/
Comment linking /2020/09/23/distance-fields/
on “2D Global Illumination in Godot (2020)”Submitted Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU as a story · 224 points
HN discussionVery cool! Reminds me of the old days of ASCII art, I think I last saw it mostly on warez readmes (some really impressive ones) Edit: I love the combo of ray marching and fonts too [0], as previously seen on HN [1] [0] https://www.rykap.com/2020/09/23/distance-fields/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24569542
Comment linking /2020/09/23/distance-fields/
on “An Introduction to ASCII Ray Marching”Submitted Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020) as a story · 199 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D as a story · 172 points
HN discussionSubmitted Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU (2016) as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Fast Equation Grapher (Part I) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Fast Equation Grapher (part 1) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a fast Equation Grapher (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rendering math equations on the GPU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a fast Equation Grapher (part 1) as a story · 1 points
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