Virtualization
The post explains how to install SmartOS on a datacenter server without remote KVM or physical access. It walks through creating a template ZPOOL image, configuring a remote machine in rescue mode, and booting SmartOS, with notes on ZFS usage, BIOS/UEFI boot, and a hosted image for convenience. It includes warnings about changing default passwords and OpenZFS licensing considerations.
General
This article provides a detailed mathematical treatment of rendering fog with volumetric primitives, covering Beer-Lambert-based attenuation, ray-primitive intersections, heterogenous volumes, and several radial density functions. It includes practical derivations, code snippets, and discussion of trade-offs between ray-marching and analytic solutions for efficient fog rendering.