Last weekend the demogroup Mercury released at Tokyo Demo Fest the final version of their invitation to the upcoming Revision party: a 64kB demo called Epsilon. While the complexity of the scenes is very limited, the rendering, seemingly a raymarching shader, features a couple of very noteworthy real-time effects including ambient occlusion, reflexion (up to two iterations it seems) and refraction, caustics, and an hexagonal bokeh depth of field.
Light is beautiful
Thoughts of a graphics programmer, demoscener and spare time photographer
Maximum reflection depth is eight iterations in the final – two iterations in the party version – I forgot to change the constant there…
Six iterations for refractions – because you don’t need more for those scenes.
It’s a mix of standard raytracing intersection tests and sphere tracing.
Greetings las/mercury
And of course: thank you for writing a blog post dedicated to our intro – seems you are one of the first to do that!