ok i got individual layer colors working with precomputed! (actual colors are messed up at present.) i don't yet know if this is actually faster than the other approach. it depends where the bottlenecks are. if array lookups are where it's binding, then this is no better. if it's per ray math, good.

trying some interesting bitwise color manipulation tricks

this sort of thing is honestly such a huge part of why doing game development is so wonderful.

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.

you can get some interesting color variation + banding if you use deliberately-not-right bitwise compositing. things bleed into other channels + it messes with relative brightness.

i'm working out all the contextually specific behavior now. it's going to work with mixed heights, too. here's a high building (with the new special case bridge handling) connected to a low building.

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.

oh! that was an unexpected bug. i was just going to do dithered shadows and i ended up with... i think it's the span lengths messing with the dither?

there, i got drop shadows working for all layers.

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

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