u/thygrrrin r/GraphicsProgramming • Recommends
On “How much math is required to be a graphics programmer?”
…find Computational Geometry and advanced knowledge of Algorithms to be a game changer.
Because the skill ceiling is astronomical, the field of computer graphics is incredibly diverse. Pick whatever vibes with you and gets you the results you need as a graphics programmer or technical artist to express yourself.
Some examples of this diversity:
[video (everyday math, I use this multiple times a day)
[video (3D maths/algos, use weekly)
[video (tooling and procedural gen, here as art)
[video (raymarching / synthesis / SDFs)
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1691141/FULLTEXT01.pdf (preprocessing for specific techniques)
[video (particles, motion and topology)
[[video…