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Either a raytracer or a software rasterizer. Or both.

• azhenley 7y ago
  I almost added raytracer! I'll add it to the end with some other community suggested projects. Thanks for the suggestion.
  • nlh 7y ago
    Seconded! Raytracer is phenominal, especially if you do it “purely” (no GPU/OpenGL/etc.). It’s relatively straightforward and the satisfaction of seeing even a basic shaded sphere that you literally created from scratch in code by writing pixels to a bitmap file is awesome. I did this about a year ago and it was still one of the most fun/educational projects I’ve ever done.
  • Lerc 7y ago
    Raytracer was the thing that sprang to mind for me. Currently the only two I have left to do on the list are the Basic compiler and the spreadsheet. I plan to do the compiler quite soon, once the emulator IDE is nice enough. If I decide to do a Basic without line numbers I'll probably be doing another text editor as well. Not sure if I could bring myself to write a spreadsheet. I feel queasy just looking at them.