10. Advanced 3D Drawing
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.—Albert Einstein
So far in this book, you have rendered only a single object, and you may be feeling a bit daunted. If you have a full 3D project, such as the Zen Garden project that debuted with Metal, you may be thinking you’d have to add millions of lines of code to get a project that complex working. Don’t worry—Metal has you covered. This chapter introduces you to the concepts you need to understand to create large and complex 3D scenes.
Constructing a Hierarchical World with Scene Graphs
When you have thousands of objects in a scene, the first thing you must decide is how you will organize them. The most manageable way to organize ...
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