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Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer
I recently came across Paul Heckbert's business card raytracer. For those that have never heard of it: It is a very famous challenge in the Computer Graphics field that started on May 4th, 1984 via a post on comp.graphics by Paul Heckbert ( More about this in his article " A Minimal Ray Tracer " from the book Graphics…
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- 12 commenters
Games & GraphicsMath & Algorithms2013
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2013 | Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer by cremno | 355 | 66 |
| Feb 28, 2019 | Business Card Ray Tracer (2013) by harel | 65 | 10 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 13 Hacker News comments by 12 different people, from Nov 2013 to Jan 2026.
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