An interesting idea to use surfels not only as a surface cache (PBGI), but also as a geo approx to trace against. The main use case is mobile, where triangle ray tracing isn’t widely supported in HW, and raymarching SDFs isn’t a great fit for bandwidth-limited devices. gdcvault.com/play/1035619...
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