Terry Butler

Monday again! Happy listening!
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Finally got around to adding those few lines of code to add textured walls to the ray caster.

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A few details:
1) The texture isn’t mine, I merely found it via Google Images with the term “wall texture” and it has the filename “Wall_Texture_by_shadowh3.JPG”
2) There’s still a problem with [...]

One of my absolute “favourite favourites” in my collection. This is “I Have the Key to Your Heart and Mind” by Tero Laihanen. Enjoy!
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Two updates in one day. This is probably a first on my blog
Here’s an image of a single reflective sphere in the middle of three other spheres of various colours with lighting and shadows:

Here’s a quick look at all of the spheres featuring reflectivity and how they look when recursively casting off one [...]

Just a little more to add. I have shadows working but there’s a bug or two in there that I can’t seem to shift, but here’s what I’ve got anyway:

Here’s what I have so far:

Of course, it’s still very much some ways off the high quality rendering that ray tracing can be known for, but it’s a good learning experience all the same.

Having spent a lot of time on rasterizer based rendering, I’ve wanted to learn more about ray tracing, if only for the sake of curiosity. I also wanted to revisit ray casting, as it had been some time and I took some of the finer details for granted the first time around, so this time, [...]

This is another of my favourites which actually came from an old What PC magazine cover CD back in 1995. I’ve still got the CD hanging around here somewhere.
Read more about the MOD collection on that disc and more here.
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Another Monday gone! Enjoy!
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Something a little different this time. It’s a shame the excellent bit in the last 27 seconds or so doesn’t make more an appearance throughout the song.
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