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Nice to see a nod to Iniqo Quilez and the crazy SDF world. I still get a thrill from the fact you can specify an infinite grid of spheres with a single line of SDF code. Seems magical - as does the "almost free" CSG, morphing and chamfering you get from SDF rendering.

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iq was single-handedly responsible for most of my early interest in computing.

But why ' of incredible infamy ' - did he do something illegal, bad or contemptible?

It's a bit tongue in cheek and perhaps I should edit it out before someone misinterprets it. To a lot of people, iq is a mad scientist, in the best way. The rediscovery of SDF and invention of raymarching almost immediately gave every single graphics developer pause. It's such a different way to think about graphics and modelling and art and helped open people's eyes to alternate approaches and representations.

IMO, yes, it shouldn't be there. I've been following the guy for some years and was really surprised to see him called "infamous", so I went and googled for a while to see if he ever did anything "wrong".

I adjusted the wording. Incredibly sorry about that, I definitely don't want to hurt the man's reputation.

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