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Gabor Laszlo Hajba in Ray Tracer Project

Sep 6, 2017

Ray Tracer — Chapter 2

The second chapter of the book, the first challenge to implement. Basic operations on tuples.

Ray Tracer — Chapter 2

Gabor Laszlo Hajba in Ray Tracer Project

Sep 2, 2017

Ray Tracer Project

I recently started working on a ray tracer pet project. You may have seen it at GitHub.

In this article series, I’ll write about my decisions, why I’ve chosen the programming constructs I use.

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Gabor Laszlo Hajba in Ray Tracer Project

Sep 19, 2017

Ray Tracer — Chapter 3

Up to the next challenge!

After implementing tuples and operations on tuples, it is time to look at a more complex data structure: matrices.

As for the previous chapter, the size of matrices used in the book is fixed: we…

Gabor Laszlo Hajba in Ray Tracer Project

Oct 17, 2017

Ray Tracer — Chapter 4

Now it is time to continue the journey. The fourth chapter of the book is about matrix transformations.

Because I’ve already implemented matrices and their operations, adding transformations was not a big deal. I implemented the following transformations for this…

Gabor Laszlo Hajba in Ray Tracer Project

Aug 30, 2018

The book is almost there

I abandoned this project. I am guilty — and could tell you about my reasons but I won’t. At least not now.

However, in the meantime, the book got its shape and is almost finished. Because…

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