The amazing strategy of "rewriting the entire thing from scratch and hoping it's better the next time around" fixed a weird bug with my shadows for the #zig #raytracer. I also made normal shading toggleable! (the setting is hardcoded but a single variable change and recompile isn't too bad for now)

Full disclosure, I'm following the "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" (https://raytracing.github.io/) book online, but I'm rewriting everything in Zig, and adding my own stuff here and there.

#graphics

If you built a Raytracer with a used Orbic, you can get a SIM card for a buck from Total by Verizon and have control over its use. The pcaps are more complete if you have an active sim card. #privacy #raytracer

Working in the city library today 🤩 Some basic math library.
#cpp #programming #raytracer #PlusPlusPixel

If you like pictures, then here's the output from a #raytracer I wrote in 6 hours, last Friday, based on the book "Ray Tracing In One Weekend." I spent another afternoon faffing about to get an interface working, that showed each step of the process.

https://marquisdegeek.github.io/six_hour_raytracer/

I’ve finished the fourth chapter of the book The Ray Tracing Challenge using Rust and Macroquad. It was mostly implementing matrix transformations. To test them out, this is an image generated using the rotation transformation.

#Rust #RustLang #Macroquad #RayTracer

I started following the book The Ray Tracer Challenge from The Pragmatic Programmer yesterday and I finished chapter two and finally got something on the screen. I'm implementing it in Rust with the game library Macroquad.

https://pragprog.com/titles/jbtracer/the-ray-tracer-challenge/

#RustLang #Macroquad #raytracer

TheFatRat just dropped a new track, "Ray Tracer" with real 16-bit video game vibes. I think he referred to it as "melodic glitch hop."

I think it's cool.

Check it out here: https://thefatrat.ffm.to/chapter7

#NewMusic #TheFatRat #EDM #DanceMusic #RayTracer #Music

this guy is my hero, and his nostalgic rant at the end is worth boosting: https://gabrielgambetta.com/zx-raytracer.html

#zx #spectrum #raytracer #history #simplicity

exported to povray (had to look up formula for rotation matrix, finally the result looks convincingly close to the output of my #raytracer!)

More reflections.

#rust #rustlang #raytracer

Got reflections working for my raytracer.

#raytracer #rust #rustlang

The "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" book is cool, but they like to live a little dangerously with their C++ coding practices, IMHO. :welp:

#raytracer #rust #rustlang

Now we're talkin'!

#rust #rustlang #raytracer

@Drkedrkedjon Without the dog I'd think this was a #raytracer #demo

The #WILDcompo of #Revision2020 has some interesting entries too!
Here's "Tracing real rays" by #Nupo, which involves #raytracing a #Toilet with a *physical* #raytracer:

https://mastodon.social/media/HPVN6bFbELPK4z8PjQQ

https://mastodon.social/media/wP-KTVQ4OzCU7t5Sb1k

#demoscene #demoparty

#Raygon, a work-in-progress #raytracer for generating 3D images in #Rust has seen an impressive amount of progress since last month. Check out the before and after images in the blog post.
https://github.com/raygon-renderer/readme/blob/master/blogs/month-1.md

#Raygon, a work-in-progress #raytracer for generating 3D images in #Rust has seen an impressive amount of progress since last month. Check out the before and after images in the blog post.
https://github.com/raygon-renderer/readme/blob/master/blogs/month-1.md