Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer

Re:Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer by Doerge on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:25PM (#13564658)

Expected to see a simple ray tracer break down on some edge case. Saw a simple ray tracer, simply ray trace. Was quite disappointed. Why is this posted? What value does it add?

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Re:Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer by iak8god on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:31PM (#13564695)

This explains and demonstrates, piece by piece, how a ray tracer works it's a "breakdown" in the sense of "an explanatory analysis", not in the sense of "a failure."

Good for you that you already know how ray tracers work, and so possibly this adds no value for you. I already knew how they work and I thought it was a nice clear demonstration.

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Re:Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer by Doerge on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:36PM (#13564724)

I see that it is a _nice_ demo, but don't see how this ends up as #1 here?

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Re:Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer by iak8god on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:41PM (#13564766)

Other people found it interesting. It's pointless to complain about content that doesn't strike your fancy. Just upvote stuff that does...

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Re:Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer by roywiggins on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:51PM (#13564826)

Because it's by Ken Perlin, probably.

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Re:Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer by anjc on Saturday February 04, 2017 @07:14AM (#13566712)

So essentially you're disappointed by your own misinterpretation of a title

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