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Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

by @MaximeHeckel blog.maximeheckel.com published 2026-05-12

This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, and ozone absorption.

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