chunky/sqlraytracer
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Everyone writes a Raytracer eventually. This is mine.
9 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2021-08-21 · latest 2025-12-23
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I wonder how this guy implement a ray tracer, then. https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer
comment by canyp · 2025-12-23 · in The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know -
…I worked through it and it made it super easy to create one. Thank you for writing this! ( https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer was the one I created. Slightly obtuse but I really enjoyed writing it)
comment by chunkyks · 2024-07-26 · in Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0 -
My pet silliness in sql from a couple years ago: https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer You remind me I need to finish my hunt the wumpus implementation. (sqlite has an easy way to get user input, mid query...)
comment by chunkyks · 2023-10-12 · in SQL reserved words – An empirical list -
…off-piste raytracer project, I feel compelled to link my own silly contribution to that diaspora: https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer
comment by chunkyks · 2022-10-10 · in Ray Tracing in Notepad.exe at 30 FPS (2020) -
This feels like an opportunity to link my own, much sillier, raytracer: https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer
comment by chunkyks · 2022-06-15 · in GPU ray tracing tutorial – 10 articles -
…Clojure version. But it handles triangles, not just spheres, so it can render the Stanford bunny. https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer/blob/master/raytracer... is instead about three pages of SQL, using recursive CTEs instead of…
comment by kragen · 2022-02-17 · in How much boilerplate code you need to write a ray-tracer? -
This is awesome. A bit of self-promotion: I, too, wrote a deliberately obtuse raytracer: https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer
comment by chunkyks · 2022-02-10 · in Ray Tracing for the TI-84 CE