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Smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++
smallpt is a global illumination renderer. It is 99 lines of C++, is open source, and renders the above scene using unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing (click for full size) .
- Points
- 238
- HN comments
- 71
- Submissions
- 2
- Cited by
- 12 commenters
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 2017 | Smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++ by Ivoah | 238 | 57 |
| Jan 13, 2010 | Smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++ (with no external deps) by benhoyt | 94 | 14 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 16 Hacker News comments by 12 different people, from Nov 2010 to May 2025.
Most recent:
- magicalhippo · May 31, 2025
- dragontamer · Sep 26, 2024
- choppaface · Feb 17, 2022
- sxp · Aug 6, 2021
- sxp · Feb 15, 2021
- dragontamer · Nov 30, 2020
