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Re:Money was never the end goal – mrdoob – threejs creator by pixelpoet on Saturday November 09, 2024 @12:59PM (#42095778)
You don't actually need matrices at all for basic ray tracing.
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Re:Money was never the end goal – mrdoob – threejs creator by smolder on Saturday November 09, 2024 @01:36PM (#42096043)
You're right, just vectors and trig are fine for rendering a few spheres or whatever. Doing transforms on 3D model coordinates was where it came in.
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