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Shahriar Shahrabi
Personal blog · shahriyarshahrabi.medium.comprogrammingdesign
Shahriar Shahrabi's personal blog at shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com covers programming and design. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Gentle Introduction to Realtime Fluid Simulation for Programmers and Artists”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Posts on this Medium blog cover optics, such as colored shadow penumbras. One commenter links a related post on the theory, which they describe as a mix of Mie and Rayleigh scattering.
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Most-linked posts?
- Gentle Introduction to Realtime Fluid Simulation for Programmers and Artists2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-07
What Hacker News says?
The post links another that goes into the theory a little: https://shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/in-the-valley-of-gods-s... Apparently a combination of Mie and Rayleigh scattering. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mie_scattering - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
Comment linking /in-the-valley-of-gods-style-saturated-shadows-in-blender-lightbake-791113deeba5
on “Colored Shadow Penumbra”Submitted Gentle Introduction to Realtime Fluid Simulation for Programmers and Artists as a story · 147 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to Realtime Fluid Simulation for Programmers and Technical Artists as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interactive Volumetric Fog with Fluid Dynamics and Arbitrary Boundaries as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating Painterly 3D Scenes: preparing assets for NPR as a story · 1 points
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