I couldn’t find an example of this out there so I’m releasing my geometry nodes AO solution for free. Curious if anyone else has tried tackling this?
You can get it here: https://spaghetmenot.gumroad.com/l/geonodesao
It uses a Fibonacci sphere distribution of rays… I’m not sure its the best arrangement but it is fun to play with
Also I wasn’t sure if this counted as “artwork” but didn’t know where else to post it!
I like this a lot- it’s a lot more artistic in appearance than the built-in AO, I’m going to be using this for sure 
This is amazing! Would be interesting to see if there was a way to bake the AO as a texture…
Thanks! Off the top of my head you could hook up the attribute to the base color of a shader then bake diffuse? I haven’t done much baking in Blender but this seems like a thing that could work 
Hey that looks super cool !
I made a quick one for myself but the ray distribution wasn’t super efficient since it only used random rotation on vectors… I really like you approach and I would never thought about it !
The Fibonacci sphere alone look pretty useful too !
Thanks for sharing and the quick breakdown too !
Yeah this is an awesome time to avoid baking.
This approach has been done already before (minus the fibonacci).
There is a crazy thread here on BA about geo nodes (which i cant seem to find right now, sorry! ) in which this was previously posted.
I am using that setup for a year or so already at work, but always good if you make people aware of it being a thing
Wow this is going to be very handy. Thank you! 
This is awesome!
