MyShell dropped their weekly showcase featuring some genuinely interesting compute-heavy visual generation techniques.
The standout is their Screen Portal Pullout Generator - basically a compositor that handles multi-layer transitions between image states. The architecture manages refraction rendering, glass fracture physics, particle systems, cloth simulation, volumetric smoke, and dynamic contact lighting in a unified pipeline.
What makes this technically interesting: it's not just slapping effects on top of each other. The system maintains visual continuity across the transition by treating the entire sequence as a single physical space where materials interact. Think of it as a mini render engine that understands how light behaves when you're literally pulling one scene through another.
The compute requirements must be brutal - you're essentially running real-time physics for glass, cloth, and fluids while also handling ray-traced refraction and particle dynamics. This is the kind of stuff that would've required a render farm a few years ago, now packaged as a generator.
If you're into procedural VFX or building tools that need physically plausible transitions, this is worth checking out. The fact they're exposing this level of control in a user-facing tool is pretty wild.
The standout is their Screen Portal Pullout Generator - basically a compositor that handles multi-layer transitions between image states. The architecture manages refraction rendering, glass fracture physics, particle systems, cloth simulation, volumetric smoke, and dynamic contact lighting in a unified pipeline.
What makes this technically interesting: it's not just slapping effects on top of each other. The system maintains visual continuity across the transition by treating the entire sequence as a single physical space where materials interact. Think of it as a mini render engine that understands how light behaves when you're literally pulling one scene through another.
The compute requirements must be brutal - you're essentially running real-time physics for glass, cloth, and fluids while also handling ray-traced refraction and particle dynamics. This is the kind of stuff that would've required a render farm a few years ago, now packaged as a generator.
If you're into procedural VFX or building tools that need physically plausible transitions, this is worth checking out. The fact they're exposing this level of control in a user-facing tool is pretty wild.