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Forcing early-z with raytracing

I'm working on a GLSL raytracer, and I need to be able to edit gl_FragDepth in the FS. However, doing so disables early-z culling. The scene is rendered front-to-back and the FS can only push points ...
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Impact of variable-length loops on GPU shaders

Its popular to render procedural content inside the GPU e.g. in the demoscene (drawing a single quad to fill the screen and letting the GPU compute the pixels). Ray marching is popular: This means ...
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How to calculate the viewing cone radius at a distance in raymarching?

I'm "raymarching distance fields" (proper lingo: sphere-tracing) in GLSL. To implement cone-marching atop of it (and also to minimize the number of raymarching steps regardless of whether ...