ok i inlined the sampling for all upper bookended layers, and they cast drop shadows now (onto terrain only) and my new rendering function is still only at 12ms! that's really promising, net was 30 for terrain + two bookended pairs before. time to render them.

i think the refactored render basically works. this is all the additional geometry layers, minus depth test + span fill. 15ms currently, which is close but i can get it in the zone.

ok it's buggy, but i did mostly get cloud scrolling working. unfortunately, it ends up breaking a lot of my optimizations (up to 25 ms per frame from 17), so i'll have to leave it on the cutting room floor for now.

ok that's interesting. you potentially get some compelling chromatic effects when you do "dirty" initial colors and do shadows by randomly dropping out individual bits.

i think maybe if i find the right magic value, i can do shadows by bitmasking?

why, sony (see terribly left drift, end of video).

ok this is promising- with shadows (not rendering) for everything, it's at 10ms. but that's only with inlined point samples, not interpolation. if i turn on interpolation w/ a function, it's 23ms or so. i'm going go try inlining.

it was interesting doing a lot of color / fill explorations recently. i have more to do! i think this flat shaded, bitwise color one is my favorite of the crop. but next i want to go back to free rgb because it's so tunable, and it's good for haze etc. and gives me very manual control.

yeah i find i am putting a lot of thought into hovering /just/ on the edge of ambiguity. do shadows eat information, how crisp are the edges, is that a house etc. here are some color things i'm messing with for you! this is randomized shadow masks.

ok that's the top to bottom order of operations + all lookups + inlined interpolation for the new renderer! i just added depth test. without further optimizations we are at 15ms, just barely squeaking in to hit 60fps! about twice the performance of the previous renderer.

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