Experiments
Raymarched-fractals
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Details
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TYPE
Generative Art
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TOOLS
GLSL
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DATE
February 2026
Overview
A series of studies exploring ray-marched 3D fractals. Like most people drawn to computer graphics, I find fractals endlessly fascinating — the way infinite complexity emerges from simple, recursive rules feels like peering into the underlying geometry of nature itself.
Technique
The visuals are rendered entirely in GLSL using a technique called ray marching: rather than relying on traditional polygon meshes, a ray is cast from the camera into the scene for each pixel, and a signed distance function (SDF) is sampled repeatedly along that ray until it converges on a surface. This makes it possible to render objects that have no clean geometric description — like fractals, whose infinitely recursive structure would be impossible to represent as a mesh.