Ray Tracer in SQL
agustechbro [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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.
tills13 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Yeah. Remember when that guy made Doom in TypeScript types? That was incredible. This feels shallow and dull. Interesting idea and cool that ClickHouse -- a primarily human made piece of software -- can even do this but I agree it no longer does it for me.
laszlokorte [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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]
[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/sql3d/
cma256 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Nice, but why ?
__alexs [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Good stress test for your SQL parser I guess.
jareklupinski [3 hidden]5 mins ago
sir... this is hacker news