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nkanaev / tipsy

tipsy

tiny playstationy renderer

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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
449GitHub stars
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tiny playstationy renderer

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-08-03 07:21:24 UTC to 2026-07-23 15:42:05 UTC.

0122022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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This resource, along with Mathematics for Computer Graphics by John Vince [1], was truly indispensable when I wrote my own software renderer [2]. This was long before LLMs, so the whole process took me at least a couple months - most of it trying to wrap my head around math behind computer graphics and tracking down C segmentation faults. Fun times. [1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematics-Computer-Graphics-John-... [2]: https://github.com/nkanaev/tipsy
In Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
It's true that https://github.com/nkanaev/tipsy/blob/master/src/tigr.c is 5500 lines of C but, as far as I can tell, it's just being used to load texture images, draw lines, get double-buffered pixel buffers onto the screen, and get keyboard and mouse events. It wouldn't be difficult to port it to something like https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso. yeso.h yeso-pic.c yeso-xlib.c png.c total 560 lines of C, and all you're missing then is a line-drawing function.
In Show HN: Tiny PS1-like Renderer in 500 lines

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