Change of interest....

What I'm interested always changes after a few days. Now, I feel kinda lazy to continue with Mr Ball In Space and decided to leave it there for the time being. This is not the first time this is happening. A lot of times I got to persuade myself to finish up a project before I find something else interesting. Now that I've looked into computer graphics again, I wanna play with ray tracing.

What's ray tracing? Well, according to Wikipedia:

In computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane. The technique is capable of producing a very high degree of photorealism; usually higher than that of typical scanline rendering methods, but at a greater computational cost.

It's so interesting that it made me wanna try it out. So, yeah, I totally forgotten about my game now, after creating 1+MB of game data already. Sigh...

Here's an example of a picture generated from a ray tracer:


(Images from Wikipedia)

It looks incredibly real right? That's the beauty of ray tracing. The thing is, ray tracing is all about maths. 3D mathematics is incredibly confusing. It's not like your usual 2D Cartesian Plane where you use to plot points and draw a graph. It has 3 axes, namely, x, y and z axis. The addition of a new axis makes it hard to draw it out on paper, since a paper is 2D. So, I'll have to rely on my imagination and visualization. I'll get into the maths later, right now my TV Show Notifier says I got Hannah Montana on tele!! Bye!