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My favourite are the people who build raytracers as an alternative to Hello World.
by muzani 2y ago
My favourite are the people who build raytracers as an alternative to Hello World.
- tra3 2y agoI tried that and failed. Like Homer said, “trying is the first step towards failure”.
- basementcat 2y agoTo be fair, a writing a ray tracer forces one to learn more about a language than just Hello, World!
- muzani 2y agoIt's completely fair but I can't build a ray tracer with languages I've used over 10 years.
- Doxin 2y agoIt's one of those things where if you've done it once you can repeat from memory for the most part. Personally I've never quite managed to get a ray tracer working properly. The math is too dense for me when bugs happen. I can fairly easily get a wireframe cube rendered and spinning though, took me months to figure out the first time but once you know the path it's easy enough.