Rendering 100 Million+ Sand Grains with Instances

My title might be a bit of clickbait but geometry nodes is crazy! This video shows how I went about rendering individual grains of sand instead of just using a texture like a sane person might do.
Camera Culling Geometry Node Download: / 52179440
0:00 Intro
0:43 Explanation
1:55 Modeling Assets
2:33 Texturing Assets
3:11 Sandbox Modeling
4:00 Scene Setup
6:13 Sand Grains
7:48 Outro
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[@machelvin]

This is truly remarkable. I always thought of instancing to solve this but that process eluded me.
Appreciate this fine tut.

[@Albert_XXI]

Very resourceful, impressive workflow, and outstanding final result. Thanks for sharing.

[@DJVARAO]

Impressive! great tutorial man!

[@stefanguiton]

Excellent. Underrated channel, great stuff

[@coleorloff]

Insane realism.

[@MintyFlavor]

This was great

[@theforbes239]

this is so crazy, thank you for sharing

[@sandeepsingh-xg1rk]

Awesome work

[@ugurtekdal4020]

Thank you so much for this helping tutorial mate.

[@kamsin007]

Awesome!

[@toapyandfriends]

I'm trying to create a scene where I dig with a garden trowel in a garden just digging up small amounts of dirt the trowel goes into the dirt and causes small holes just like a gardener does. Using your method Sir do you know how I could create this animation

[@guidoparacolli4112]

man whats the node u put in the color ramp for the speckles? its a very good tutorial but u can have an overview of the node tree of the geometri nodes and the texture

[@alan-db3oc]

thanks dude

[@GoodGodFatherGGF]

Would really like to get a better idea of your material nodes in the shade editor for the grains. Many thanks for this info, all the same.

[@ambuj.k]

Node-by-Node blender is coming closer to Houdini.

[@sidekick3rida]

Do you have a more in-depth camera culling tutorial?

[@variantino]

Daimn boiii

[@H53.]

I'm scared to try this.

[@ua_visuals]

Did you try persistent data to render?

[@matteodirollo6157]

Looks so cool. Can we buy the file somehow?

[@sidekick3rida]

What audio gear (midi controller, etc) you got there?

[@afjer]

The sand is really good. It's a little too flush with the shovel.

[@H53.]

Where can we see the whole geometry nodes setup for the sand? Not the camera culling.

[@Duckendo]

MATH ADDICT

[@philipguerrant7967]

Excellent video! I subcribed to your Patreon and sent you a message. Any chance I could get this file sent to me?

[@josiahgil]

What gpu did you render with?

[@Ryan1m]

A GTX 980

[@MrSuperGamer3000]

4:13

[@mainecoon6122]

Cool stuff. You might wanna check out fSpy. Helps u a great deal remodel from images.