Ray-Tracing Experiments
Inspired by the upcoming Ray-Tracing Kajam event , I decided to start fooling around with some ray-tracing code. I'm still feeling inspired by DOS limitations, so I'm rolling with that. But I'm not so interested in making a Wolfenstein-a-like, which is a classic ray-tracing type of thing. I also don't think I'm capable of making something as awesome as Death Taxi 3000 , which is just a phenomenal piece of work. So my mind settled on trying to get a height-map, voxel-style terrain rendering on something like a 486 PC. Still a significant challenge, but something I feel I can get my head around. The trick to anything like this seems to be getting your data/algorithm simplifications right to make life easy for the CPU. To that end, over the last few days, I've been playing around trying to see the effect different simplifications have and I think I'm onto something: This experiment was done on a modern workstation running Linux. It's a 256x256 height