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Ray tracing 25 scenes in 25 days with POV-Ray

6 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2024-06-11 · latest 2025-06-13

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  1. …many moons ago, I drew the planets of our solar system to scale with it. You can see it here: https://github.com/susam/pov25#planets A friend once asked if I couldn't show the planets in orbit rather than lying flat on a plane. I could, of…
  2. …to do so, the resulting scene can produce the exact opposite impression, that of a vast space. [1]: https://github.com/susam/pov25#focal-blur
  3. …cool. In hindsight it's obvious but to get this out of a raytracer is somewhat unexpected to me. https://github.com/susam/pov25#Kaleidoscope
  4. …and cubes and gradually progressed to more intricate shapes and textures. Here are the results: https://github.com/susam/pov25 The source code is in the "src/" directory. The rendered images are included in the README (scroll down to see…