{"id":6,"date":"2010-12-03T17:20:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T17:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/109.109.226.138\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2010-12-03T17:26:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T17:26:06","slug":"ray-tracer-part-0-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/2010\/12\/03\/ray-tracer-part-0-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Tracer Part 0: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\">Everyone and their dog, and their dog&#8217;s mum, has built a raytracer. This is not surprising: I mean, seriously, it&#8217;s not that hard, and it looks REALLY SHINY. So, despite the fact that everyone has already done this, and in many cases done it better, now it&#8217;s MY turn.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\">I started this project in my final year at Univeristy, during an Advanced Graphics module. I did this because the module was theory, and theory only.Now I like building stuff, but not everyone else does, so I was probably alone in wishing for more brain melting coursework. Also, the theory was hard. Very hard.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>So, in order to understand it better, I built it. This may not have been wise, and their were a number of decidedly non-wise decisions in this project (I&#8217;ll get to those).<\/p>\n<p>For your enjoyment, and my own, I will be posting here, as regularly as I can manage, until this blog has caught up with me in reality.<\/p>\n<p>-Anorak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone and their dog, and their dog&#8217;s mum, has built a raytracer. This is not surprising: I mean, seriously, it&#8217;s not that hard, and it looks REALLY SHINY. So, despite the fact that everyone has already done this, and in many cases done it better, now it&#8217;s MY turn. I&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/2010\/12\/03\/ray-tracer-part-0-introduction\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}