Writing your own ray tracer is fun bordering on wasting time.
Actually using it later to create #art by modifying basic parts of the tracer is so validating: I have the last word, world! My pointless experiments do lead to something!
https://gitlab.com/dcz_self/sciema
#graphics #programming #motivation #generalist #raycasting #raytracing
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