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I have used it when applying to some jobs but no success so far. I think this project was useful because it allowed me to go deeper than I ever had in code. I had very though issues that required me to ask in forums etc. I had a bug with ray-triangle intersection that took me 3 months to find the cause. So it was good training and it's a great project to have on my portfolio. I'm sure it can help me if I apply for something related to computer graphics and maybe gaming.

Implemented this and the other improvements suggested on the thread. Performance up by 20%! Thanks for the feedback. https://github.com/themartiano/luz/pull/3

I just launched the project, so can't say it helped me professionally yet. Almost all of the time invested in this was pre-AI. I agree it's harder to justify those deep dives but still worth it if you do it alongside AI IMO.

Not really, but it would be fun. I really like Rust as well

Wow, pretty good. Why web?

Thanks! I get your point about AI, but I think it's fair to say it's almost 100% AI free. I worked on it for ~15 months, vs 1 week now with AI. Previous results were quite similar

I get your point. I consider it fair with the disclaimer because the "manual" version was very similar to current but missing some love

The greatest resource I've found on the internet is the Ray Tracing in One Weekend series. (https://raytracing.github.io/) You can start there and go pretty far. Also you can mix random papers you'll find and eventually just testing and experimenting yourself.

Hey HN,

5 years ago I was 17 and learning to code C/C++ in a coding bootcamp (42). One of the projects was a simple C ray tracer. I really enjoyed working on the project and always loved computer graphics, so I decided to create my own path tracer from scratch, in C++, without using any third-party libraries.

I ended up working on it consistently for over a year, then sporadically when CG excitement hit me again. Recently I polished it and completed some unfinished features and decided to make it public, finally. It's a C++20 Path Tracer with a CPU renderer. It is able to render good-looking images with reasonable performance and sample count.

Btw this was initially coded without AI, but I've used it for the recent clean up and features. This project is a personal favorite of mine, and it can improve a lot, so I'd love to hear your feedback.