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For those who don't understand the significance of this I highly encourage you to learn about ray tracing and the complexity of it. If combining something that
by soheil 4y ago
For those who don't understand the significance of this I highly encourage you to learn about ray tracing and the complexity of it. If combining something that complex with something so simple (Notepad.exe) is not art I don't know what is.
- Silverback_VII 4y ago
- CyberDildonics 4y agoDo you think it might be a little patronizing to assume people don't understand that text inside notepad is being used as a display when there is a video showing it off?
- dixie_land 4y agoExactly. The idea is neat but it's no different than the mini ray tracer you write in graphics 101, with the twist that the output "frame" buffer is the text buffer of notepad
- soheil 4y agoI was referring to possibly not knowing about Ray Tracing which is a technique and a subset of the field of computer graphics and thus possibly not understanding its computational complexity, I don't know why you're upset at me.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoEven kids know what ray tracing is these days, it's used in video games to sell graphics cards. Teenagers write ray tracers in undergrad classes. This example is a cube and plane with one light. It is lines from the camera checked for collision against triangles then a line from the collision point checked against a light. Checking for collision against a triangle is just checking collision against the infinite plane and checking if that point is inside the triangle. What is the "significance" you are talking about? This is something common with an uncommon display.
- st_goliath 4y ago> For those who don't understand the significance of this I highly encourage you to learn about ray tracing and the complexity of it. Ray tracing, at it's core, is actually beautifully simple. Also, ray tracing is absolutely not the interesting (or "significant") part of this article. I highly encourage to RTFA first. As for combining the two: having read on Raymond Chens blog about all the optimization that went into Notepad over the years, I'd guess Notepad is the real complex part here.
- soheil 4y agoI was referring to its computational complexity.
- gmiller123456 4y agoI often considered the lure of raytracing as a project was that it was rather simple to get really good results. Of course there is no limit to how complicated you can make one, you don't have to put much time in to get really nice images.
- corysama 4y agoI'm assuming you've seen https://raytracing.github.io/ https://raytracing.github.io/ ;)