TOtouggourt·Nov 3, 2024Submission
POV-Ray development is resuming
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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray)
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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray)
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesYou may like my https://github.com/pjc50/ancient-3d-for-turboc : a slightly more modern target than the NES, it targets Borland Turbo C for MS-DOS and renders to the standard game 320x200 paletted "mode 13" display.
Standard techniques of the time; project the 3D to 2D, cull backwards facing polygons, "painter's algorithm" (draw deepest first, in this case by object rather than by individual polygon).
> I tried to follow a book on writing a ray-tracer from scratch
The hardware of the time would ray-trace at multiple hours per frame. See https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray
In DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war storiesLess active the last several years, but it's still around:
http://www.povray.org/
https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray
In I wrote a Raytracer for DOS, 16 VGA colors (2011) [video]> Some good experiences with C
> Reading the POV-Ray code source code for the first time and learning how to do object orientation and inheritance in C.
But https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray is all C++... It even says "Written in C++" on the Wikipedia page. Was he talking about some other source, maybe some older version?
Edit: [1] Here is a discussion about this topic from 2012. It seems that POV-Ray was ported to C++ for version 3.7.
[1] http://news.povray.org/povray.programming/thread/%3Cweb.4f01...
In Rust things I miss in C> Remember PoVRay?
What, did it go somewhere?
https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray
In JSFarm: a distributed raytracer that runs in the browser