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Nice, simple article. I'd have been nicer if you could justify the design of using scripting in this ray tracer. It only does create, save and delete image wh
by legends2k 3y ago
Nice, simple article. I'd have been nicer if you could justify the design of using scripting in this ray tracer. It only does create, save and delete image which is also a wrapper around equivalent C++ functions.
It feels like using Lua just for the fun of it; if this was the intention then pay no heed to this comment.
- kitd 3y agoWell, this is the first part of a series so it may be worth waiting for a few more before making a judgement.
- nxobject 3y agoI wouldn't be surprised if the author was interested in quickly playing with variant light transport algorithms, BRDFs, etc. There, hotloading might be useful.
- ofrzeta 3y agoIn the flowchart there's quite a lot of work being done in Lua.
- legends2k 3y agoIt's just in the flowchart, not in code.