A bunch of random things I learned while trying to make an art tool

Jet Jones

Style Bake

Demo

Points

and a brief overview of some scattering techniques

Stippling / Dithering?

Sampling per decal

Random

Blue Noise, Uniform, Gaussian, Poisson Etc

Dart throwing

Disk Sampling

Other techniques and why they weren't suitable

Pregenerated

Chunked

Rethrowing

Sample elimination

Ai probably

Even More Ideas

My general point with this is ideally everything would update instantly, on the same frame it was changed so that you could see the results exactly. But theres always going to be situtations where that's not practical especially when your allowing users to add as many objects as they want so if that's then you need to take into consideration how your algorithm looks as it develops especially if it's the core of a program. The worst thing is to have a delay before anything shows up on screen. But even if your showing something theres still a broad range of I prefer something that iteratively approaches a final result rather than something that it's more important that you can approximate the final placement as quickly as possible I would vastly prefer this over something else even if this took longer I'm always gonna vastly prefer something like this even if it were takes longer to reach full coverage

More stuff

Debugging pixels

Gradients!

https://raphlinus.github.io/color/2021/01/18/oklab-critique.html

Gradients Are Easy

https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/

Strict about color spaces

Decal rendering open question

Deferred?

Classic Decals

http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/06/how-to-project-decals/

Other techniques

https://www.inf.usi.ch/hormann/papers/Scharfig.2010.HA3.pdf