Ganesha Hologram VFX

Winner of the RealtimeVFX Sketch #18 - Theme was "Hologram" ( https://realtimevfx.com/t/mrbrouchet-sketch-18-hologram/6484 ).
The idea was to render a 100% particle-based effect as a challenge, without any fancy shader/post-process trick. The statue is rendered using screen-aligned particles that behave like pixels, raytracing the scene in order to render objects (see RTVFX thread for tech details).
Design idea was to set up a somewhat futuristic device that you could find in an antique store somewhere in India, a device that could connect to a wider network of selling objects and show them to you in realtime.