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The first time I saw this I was in awe of how far we’ve come, realizing the first 3d rendering I ever did took several seconds and was accomplished within DOS.
by steve_adams_86 5y ago
The first time I saw this I was in awe of how far we’ve come, realizing the first 3d rendering I ever did took several seconds and was accomplished within DOS. Now we have things like this in the browser running in real time.
Since then I’ve had my mind blown several more times, but this demo has a special place in my mind. I was so excited at the prospect of WebGL.
- kingcharles 5y agoAre you talking raytracing or real-time? I loved POVRay in the early 90s for raytracing. It blew my mind. As a little kid in the 80s, John Lasseter was my hero; I had a picture of Luxo Jr I used to eye regularly. By '92 I had built a whole software 3D renderer in x86 and had the T-Rex from Jurassic Park stomping around in real-time on my 286.
- dahart 5y agoThat suddenly brought back a memory of the first 3d rendering code I did - it was written in Basic on an 8086 machine running DOS 2.1. Not only did it take several seconds to render, it was only an unshaded wireframe line drawing. To be fair, there were techniques available at the time to make it quite a bit faster that I didn’t know. But it still blows my mind a little bit every time I think about how far things have come since I was a kid.