I prefer to frame math-literacy at this article's level as more akin to a foreign language than mastery. Not following college-sophomore-level jargon isn't any more of an "intellectual failure" than not being able to read a Greek newspaper, nor is it an unobtainable-goal if you want to learn.

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If you took high school chemistry, you may recognize spherical harmonics as the "atomic orbitals"

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Amazing work by Yi Shen: mutracer is real-time path tracing in the browser. Uses TinyBVH via JavaScript or WebAssembly.

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Nuclear f2 c, p=(2*C.xy-R)/R.y*35 @(9) p*=m2(sin(T*.1+f4(0,33,11,0))), c+=cos(p) O+=tanh((.1+c.x*c.x)*.1*xp(.5*f4(-1,0,1,)*c.y)/(.1+abs(c.y)));

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If you need a random color (e.g. procedurally coloring objects), you should use Oklab or Oklch color space instead of RGB or HSV. RGB may span the whole spectrum, but it does not pick fairly (leaning dark/muddy). Oklab is designed to more closely map to how we perceive color

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