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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderIñigo Quilez has the best live coding tutorials on simple raytracers I've seen: http://www.iquilezles.org/live/index.htm It's so much easier than I thought...
Reminds me of this classic IOCCC entry implementing a flight simulator, where portions of the source code are formatted to resemble a plane: https://www.ioccc.org/1998/banks.orig.c https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1998_banks
slightly disappointing - the effect is interesting but the implementation and derivation are sloppy. using a z buffer is a little unexciting i was expecting something raytracy or voxely - maybe even scanliney... but thats too much to explain in this comment. also using the matrices for deriving the torus equation... its much simpler to create a rotating basis intuitively with cos and sin then apply them again to create a circle going around... then rotate the torus as a…
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 553
- Total comments
- 47
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-10-01 | Donut math: How donut.c worksFirst breakout · Best thread | Peroni | 204 | 11 |
| 2014-01-23 | Donut math: how donut.c works (2011) | shrikant | 121 | 22 |
| 2018-07-13 | Donut math: how donut.c works | hdivider | 5 | 0 |
| 2018-11-07 | Donut math: how donut.c works (2011) | Cieplak | 15 | 0 |
| 2018-11-07 | Donut math: how donut.c works | fanf2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-06-24 | Donut math: how donut.c works | theBashShell | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-07-21 | Donut math: how donut.c works [2011] | rahmaniacc | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-08-07 | How Donut.c Works | beefman | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-01-07 | Donut Math | virde | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-01-12 | Donut math: how donut.c works | Flamingo94 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-07-31 | Donut math: how donut.c works | vishnuharidas | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-09-17 | Donut math: how donut.c worksLatest 20+ point return | mr_o47 | 196 | 14 |