Ray Tracer in SQL

cma256

Very cool project. Next they should create a database with SQL. Querying my database's database with my database's SQL's SQL would be trippy.

Jgoauh

Nice, but why ?

laszlokorte

Very cool! I did a similar (but much simpler!) experiment by implementing perspective projection via SQL, storing meshes (vertices, edges, faces), the camera position and the screen size in tables and building a single query that generates the SVG paths (including backface culling). Running via WASM SQlite inside the web browser. [1] SELECT project(...) as x, project(...) as y FROM model, vertex, camera, transform WHERE clockwise AND clipped IN BETWEEN -1 AND 1 [1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/sql3d/

agustechbro

In the Age of AI coding, this lovely cool demos are no longer interesting anymore. I use to appreciate them by the craftsmanship and hacking aptitude they required, but now AI took away that joy of watch this for me.

mghackerlady

Look, I love a good hack, but just. No. Why would you ever want to do this. The intersection of skill and masochism needed for this shouldn't exist and yet it does

JSR_FDED

How do I join this awesome project?

mmmlinux

I love all the "But Why?!?" and "It's LLM so it doesn't count" comments.