Monday, September 25, 2017

Real-time raytracing of animated nD geometry

Let's face reality, 3D is dead, long live nD. Now that the Sol-R ray-tracer is more or less complete (for what it was initialy designed for anyway), it's time to move on to the next level. I added the Hypercube scene to the Sol-R viewer so that we can now play around with n dimensional hypercubes, thanks to the Delphi code, by cs_Forman (http://codes-sources.commentcamarche.net/source/33735-hypercubes).

Now that it's pretty clear that our world has more than 3 dimensions, I am hoping that Sol-R can now help understanding what n dimensional geometry looks like when it intersects our 3D world.

The code is there:

https://github.com/favreau/Sol-R

PS: The code was written while watching the inspiring Christopher Nolan Interstellar movie :-)