added shadows

README.md

@@ -20,4 +20,5 @@ Repository to accompany the following blog posts:
 - [Using MetalKit part 16](http://metalkit.org/2016/07/06/using-metalkit-part-16.html)
 - [Using MetalKit part 17](http://metalkit.org/2016/09/24/using-metalkit-part-17.html)
 - [Using MetalKit part 18](http://metalkit.org/2016/10/01/using-metalkit-part-2-3-2.html)
-- [Raymarching in Metal](http://metalkit.org/2016/12/30/raymarching-in-metal.html)
+- [Raymarching in Metal](http://metalkit.org/2016/12/30/raymarching-in-metal.html)
+- [Shadows in Metal part 1](http://metalkit.org/2017/01/31/shadows-in-metal-part-1.html)

shadows/shadows.playground/Contents.swift

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+
+import MetalKit
+import PlaygroundSupport
+
+let frame = NSRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 300)
+let delegate = MetalView()
+let view = MTKView(frame: frame, device: delegate.device)
+view.delegate = delegate
+PlaygroundPage.current.liveView = view

shadows/shadows.playground/Resources/Shaders.metal

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+
+#include <metal_stdlib>
+
+using namespace metal;
+
+float differenceOp(float d0, float d1) {
+    return max(d0, -d1);
+}
+
+float distanceToRect( float2 point, float2 center, float2 size ) {
+    point -= center;
+    point = abs(point);
+    point -= size / 2.;
+    return max(point.x, point.y);
+}
+
+float distanceToScene( float2 point ) {
+    float d2r1 = distanceToRect( point, float2(0.), float2(0.45, 0.85) );
+    float2 mod = point - 0.1 * floor(point / 0.1);
+    float d2r2 = distanceToRect( mod, float2( 0.05 ), float2(0.02, 0.04) );
+    float diff = differenceOp(d2r1, d2r2);
+    return diff;
+}
+
+float getShadow(float2 point, float2 lightPos) {
+    float2 lightDir = normalize(lightPos - point);
+    float dist2light = length(lightDir);
+    float distAlongRay = 0.0;
+    for (float i=0.0; i < 80.; i++) {
+        float2 currentPoint = point + lightDir * distAlongRay;
+        float d2scene = distanceToScene(currentPoint);
+        if (d2scene <= 0.001) { return 0.0; }
+        distAlongRay += d2scene;
+        if (distAlongRay > dist2light) { break; }
+    }
+    return 1.;
+}
+
+kernel void compute(texture2d<float, access::write> output [[texture(0)]],
+                    constant float &timer [[buffer(0)]],
+                    uint2 gid [[thread_position_in_grid]])
+{
+    int width = output.get_width();
+    int height = output.get_height();
+    float2 uv = float2(gid) / float2(width, height);
+    uv = uv * 2.0 - 1.0;
+    float d2scene = distanceToScene(uv);
+    bool i = d2scene < 0.0;
+    float4 color = i ? float4( .1, .5, .5, 1. ) : float4( .7, .8, .8, 1. );
+    float2 lightPos = float2(1.3 * sin(timer), 1.3 * cos(timer));
+    float dist2light = length(lightPos - uv);
+    color *= max(0.0, 2. - dist2light );
+    float shadow = getShadow(uv, lightPos);
+    shadow = shadow * 0.5 + 0.5;
+    color *= shadow;
+    output.write(color, gid);
+}

shadows/shadows.playground/Sources/MetalView.swift

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+
+import MetalKit
+
+public class MetalView: NSObject, MTKViewDelegate {
+    
+    public var device: MTLDevice! = nil
+    var queue: MTLCommandQueue! = nil
+    var cps: MTLComputePipelineState! = nil
+    var timerBuffer: MTLBuffer! = nil
+    var timer: Float = 0
+    
+    override public init() {
+        super.init()
+        device = MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice()
+        queue = device.makeCommandQueue()
+        registerShaders()
+    }
+  
+    func registerShaders() {
+        guard let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "Shaders", ofType: "metal") else { return }
+        do {
+            let input = try String(contentsOfFile: path, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
+            let library = try device.makeLibrary(source: input, options: nil)
+            guard let kernel = library.makeFunction(name: "compute") else { return }
+            cps = try device.makeComputePipelineState(function: kernel)
+        } catch let e {
+            Swift.print("\(e)")
+        }
+        timerBuffer = device.makeBuffer(length: MemoryLayout<Float>.size, options: [])
+    }
+
+    func update() {
+        timer += 0.01
+        let bufferPointer = timerBuffer.contents()
+        memcpy(bufferPointer, &timer, MemoryLayout<Float>.size)
+    }
+    
+    public func mtkView(_ view: MTKView, drawableSizeWillChange size: CGSize) {}
+    
+    public func draw(in view: MTKView) {
+        if let drawable = view.currentDrawable {
+            let commandBuffer = queue.makeCommandBuffer()
+            let commandEncoder = commandBuffer.makeComputeCommandEncoder()
+            commandEncoder.setComputePipelineState(cps)
+            commandEncoder.setTexture(drawable.texture, at: 0)
+            commandEncoder.setBuffer(timerBuffer, offset: 0, at: 0)
+            update()
+            let threadGroupCount = MTLSizeMake(8, 8, 1)
+            let threadGroups = MTLSizeMake(drawable.texture.width / threadGroupCount.width, drawable.texture.height / threadGroupCount.height, 1)
+            commandEncoder.dispatchThreadgroups(threadGroups, threadsPerThreadgroup: threadGroupCount)
+            commandEncoder.endEncoding()
+            commandBuffer.present(drawable)
+            commandBuffer.commit()
+        }
+    }
+}

shadows/shadows.playground/contents.xcplayground

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<playground version='5.0' target-platform='osx' executeOnSourceChanges='false'>
+    <timeline fileName='timeline.xctimeline'/>
+</playground>

shadows/shadows.playground/playground.xcworkspace/contents.xcworkspacedata

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Workspace
+   version = "1.0">
+   <FileRef
+      location = "self:">
+   </FileRef>
+</Workspace>

shadows/shadows.playground/timeline.xctimeline

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Timeline
+   version = "3.0">
+   <TimelineItems>
+   </TimelineItems>
+</Timeline>