The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
I decided to give some nice, simple raytracing a go, inspired by Raytracing in one
weekend.
Currently, my whole raytracing ‘engine’ is one C program, and is very
rudimentary, but I hope to add to it in time. Raytracing is fun to
puzzle out without ‘spoilers’: I hadn’t looked at the maths/explanations
for years, so I was drawing diagrams with pencil and paper and figuring
out the algebra for shere-ray collision tests.
It’s clean and elegant, diametrically opposed to getting graphics going
with a modern raster pipeline.
Fun stuff!
