rendering – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:38:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png rendering – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 A Deep Dive into ASCII Image Rendering https://setsideb.com/a-deep-dive-into-ascii-image-rendering/ https://setsideb.com/a-deep-dive-into-ascii-image-rendering/#respond Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=11599 Continue reading "A Deep Dive into ASCII Image Rendering"]]> Via Kottke on Mastodon.* Alex Harri wrote an image-to-ASCII renderer that can translate generated 3D models in realtime, and on this page they explain how it works and some of the finer points of that conversion, specifically how not to make the rendered images seem blurry, instead giving edges clean outlines. It’s worth a look even if you’re not a programmer, and just want to see how the process is done. While it does descend into pretty heavy math later on, it starts out pretty approachable, and has interactive demonstrations throughout.

Render captured from the interactive toy on the linked site.

* Bluesky has a lot more users, but Mastodon is used by a good number of highly interested and knowledgeable people, especially people who care about the health of the web, although that’s also because I follow a lot of people like that on Mastodon. Overall I find it a good idea to read both.

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via @doc on Twitter. PikumaLondon tweeted out a thread (unrolled) explaining, in general, how the original PlayStation rendered graphics, and the source of its distinctive graphic artifacts, specifically texture warping, pixelated textures, and jittery polygons. The Nintendo 64 didn’t have these problems, but also couldn’t draw as many polygons each frame.

The thread also links to developer David Colson’s efforts to create a PS1-style 3D fantasy console. I’m sure this isn’t interesting to everyone, but worry not, this blog isn’t going to become entirely low-level hardware rendering geekery. At least, not yet.

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