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Oh no... so far the most terrifying title I've seen in HN this year. By the way, it's impressive how they even managed to multithread this.
by lasagnaphil 6y ago
Oh no... so far the most terrifying title I've seen in HN this year. By the way, it's impressive how they even managed to multithread this.
- usrusr 6y agoSomeone might be working on an article even worse: list of things that raytracers haven't been written in (yet, regularly updated)
- usrusr 6y ago(PS: would that eventually count as "raytracers, written in provocative blog post meme"?)
- amelius 6y agoOr how about: an LLVM backend for CMake.
- 0-_-0 6y agoThere are even Excel ray tracers out there
- Sharlin 6y agoIn fact that’s not even difficult, given how both a raytracer and a spreadsheet are basically functions that assign a value to every cell of a grid.
- dev_tty01 6y agoNext thing you know someone will suggest HN with hierarchy for repeated and unrelenting topics. Linux ports on home appliances, ray tracing, vi vs. emacs, launchd vs systemd, walled gardens, .... Oh no, say it isn't so!
- prox 6y agoThose darn Hackers on hackernews! :)
- master_yoda_1 6y agoHackers works on things which are not trivial.so certainly not a hacker
- prox 6y agoDarn those non-hackers who don’t work on non-trivial things! :)
- master_yoda_1 6y agothose are called software engineers :)
- Niktator 6y agoMySQL raytracer: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83222 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83222
- kortex 6y agoWell, if you can store data in icmp packets, I bet you can do math, too. https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
- acka 6y agoWhen someone manages to write a raytracer in COBOL I will be truly impressed.
- JJMcJ 6y agoNothing magic there. It's a full programming language. Especially if output is in a text based image format like PPM. Since I don't know COBOL at all, I'm not the one to do that.
- Uehreka 6y agoTo pick from a recent HN thread: A raytracer has probably not been written yet using only printf. Who wants the glory?
- delta64 6y agoMaybe that'll be my next project. Or instead someone should just write a compiler which outputs a printf format string, perhaps?