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examples/editor/index.html

@@ -524,6 +524,10 @@
     debugFolder.add(spark.defaultView, "sort32").name("Float32 sort").listen();
     debugFolder.add(spark, "maxPixelRadius", 1, 1024, 1).name("Max pixel radius").listen();
     debugFolder.add(spark, "minAlpha", 0, 1, 0.001).name("Min alpha").listen();
+    spark.defaultView.stochastic = true;
+    debugFolder.add(spark.defaultView, "stochastic").name("Stochastic sort-free").listen().onChange(() => {
+      spark.prepareViewpoint();
+    });
 
     debugFolder.add(spark, "premultipliedAlpha").name("Premultiplied alpha").listen();
     const accumFolder = debugFolder.addFolder("Accumulator encoding").close();;

src/SparkRenderer.ts

@@ -390,6 +390,8 @@ export class SparkRenderer extends THREE.Mesh {
       maxPixelRadius: { value: 512.0 },
       // Minimum alpha value for splat rendering
       minAlpha: { value: 0.5 * (1.0 / 255.0) },
+      // Enable stochastic splat rendering
+      stochastic: { value: false },
       // Enable interpreting 0-thickness Gsplats as 2DGS
       enable2DGS: { value: false },
       // Add to projected 2D splat covariance diagonal (thickens and brightens)
@@ -565,6 +567,7 @@ export class SparkRenderer extends THREE.Mesh {
     this.uniforms.maxStdDev.value = this.maxStdDev;
     this.uniforms.maxPixelRadius.value = this.maxPixelRadius;
     this.uniforms.minAlpha.value = this.minAlpha;
+    this.uniforms.stochastic.value = viewpoint.stochastic;
     this.uniforms.enable2DGS.value = this.enable2DGS;
     this.uniforms.preBlurAmount.value = this.preBlurAmount;
     this.uniforms.blurAmount.value = this.blurAmount;
@@ -633,6 +636,8 @@ export class SparkRenderer extends THREE.Mesh {
         accumulator.splats.splatEncoding?.lnScaleMax ?? LN_SCALE_MAX,
       );
       this.geometry = geometry;
+      this.material.transparent = !this.viewpoint.stochastic;
+      this.material.depthWrite = this.viewpoint.stochastic;
     } else {
       // No Gsplats to display for this viewpoint yet
       this.uniforms.numSplats.value = 0;

src/SparkViewpoint.ts

@@ -123,6 +123,11 @@ export type SparkViewpointOptions = {
    * @default true
    */
   sort32?: boolean;
+  /*
+   * Set this to true to enable sort-free stochastic splat rendering.
+   * @default false
+   */
+  stochastic?: boolean;
 };
 
 // A SparkViewpoint is created from and tied to a SparkRenderer, and represents
@@ -156,6 +161,7 @@ export class SparkViewpoint {
   depthBias?: number;
   sort360?: boolean;
   sort32?: boolean;
+  stochastic: boolean;
 
   display: {
     accumulator: SplatAccumulator;
@@ -218,6 +224,7 @@ export class SparkViewpoint {
     this.depthBias = options.depthBias;
     this.sort360 = options.sort360;
     this.sort32 = options.sort32;
+    this.stochastic = options.stochastic ?? false;
 
     this.orderingFreelist = new FreeList({
       allocate: (maxSplats) => new Uint32Array(maxSplats),

src/shaders/splatFragment.glsl

@@ -7,8 +7,11 @@ precision highp int;
 uniform float near;
 uniform float far;
 uniform bool encodeLinear;
+uniform float time;
+uniform bool debugFlag;
 uniform float maxStdDev;
 uniform float minAlpha;
+uniform bool stochastic;
 uniform bool disableFalloff;
 uniform float falloff;
 
@@ -68,9 +71,27 @@ void main() {
         rgba.rgb = srgbToLinear(rgba.rgb);
     }
 
-    #ifdef PREMULTIPLIED_ALPHA
+    if (stochastic) {
-        fragColor = vec4(rgba.rgb * rgba.a, rgba.a);
+        uint uTime = floatBitsToUint(time);
-    #else
+        uvec2 coord = uvec2(gl_FragCoord.xy);
-        fragColor = rgba;
+        uint state = uTime + 0x9e3779b9u * coord.x + 0x85ebca6bu * coord.y;
-    #endif
+        state = state * 747796405u + 2891336453u;
+        uint hash = ((state >> ((state >> 28u) + 4u)) ^ state) * 277803737u;
+        hash = (hash >> 22u) ^ hash;
+        float rand = float(hash) / 4294967295.0;
+        // rand *= 2.0;
+        if (rand < rgba.a) {
+            fragColor = vec4(rgba.rgb, 1.0);
+            // gl_FragDepth = gl_FragCoord.z;
+            // fragColor = vec4(rgba.r, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
+        } else {
+            discard;
+        }
+    } else {
+        #ifdef PREMULTIPLIED_ALPHA
+            fragColor = vec4(rgba.rgb * rgba.a, rgba.a);
+        #else
+            fragColor = rgba;
+        #endif
+    }
 }