Renderer experiment · MIT licensed
Nightglass
A ray tracer built in INTERCAL, with an X11 Motif viewer. An intentionally unreasonable pairing for a problem that deserves one.
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Queued · unusual stack selected
Light follows the rules.
The implementation does not.
INTERCAL renderer · X11 Motif viewer Output: a small, inspectable image Constraint: every choice has to justify the joke
The constraint Small on purpose
Prove the stack can trace one scene.
The first release is a tiny CPU renderer with a reproducible scene and image output. The viewer is a separate window into the same result. The strange toolchain is the subject; speed is not the claim.