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Languages and libraries
path tracer library
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
11 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.
Execution: 7 for, 1 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, readable, idiomatic Go code
From 4 comments
The code is really nice and clean [1], great job for someone's first Go project! I think it's a great example of how Go's simple and clean language design can lead more people to…
shurcooL on HNI took a look at your code as I've been writing go for side projects for the last few months and like to compare styles. You nailed the idiomatic go approach to development imho.…
gravitronic on HNI'm very very impressed by your code quality especially when this is just your first Go project. I'm an experienced Go developer btw. You're just so good.
bitg on HNNot very often I can look at a library and easily follow the code. I may spend a couple afternoons reading it just to understand how this works. Very nice.
agildehaus on HN
Impressive rendering quality
From 2 comments
Wow, the quality is impressive. I had no time to look at the code, but what are your inputs? Do you read a file that contains anything you need to render, if so, can you produce…
daddykotex on HNInitially I saw the title expecting ascii art. Then I saw the amount of points, and clicked the link and I was supremely impressed.
ProfOak_ on HN
Objections
Build or run errors reported for some examples
From 1 comment
I'm getting runtime errors when trying to run the example locally, and compile errors for others (e.g. suzanne.go, 'not enough arguments in call'). Was there a recent update that…
rmcpherson on HN
Requests
Benchmarks against C and other languages
From 2 comments
What do rendering times in Go look like, compared to a similar C implementation?
akc on HNI always looked go as a programming language to develop systems and tools but , this is very interesting . Would be interesting in a benchmark results of rendering with other…
smothiki on HN
Network or distributed rendering
From 1 comment
This is very nice. I wonder how hard it would be to turn this into a network renderer (I suppose farming out sections to other machines is challenging with path tracing, but may…
rcarmo on HN
Questions
Why GOMAXPROCS was changed and whether it causes crashes
From 1 comment
I'm interested in more information about why you decided to alter GOMAXPROCS and what your results were from testing. I've had a play with this myself and found that it cause…
anom9999 on HN
Why custom vector math instead of an existing library
From 1 comment
The code is really nice and clean [1], great job for someone's first Go project! I think it's a great example of how Go's simple and clean language design can lead more people to…
shurcooL on HN
Alternatives named
mathgl vector math library
From 1 comment
The code is really nice and clean [1], great job for someone's first Go project! I think it's a great example of how Go's simple and clean language design can lead more people to…
shurcooL on HN