Ray Tracer in SQL

▲ Ray Tracer in SQL(github.com)

54 points by kbumsik a day ago | 17 comments

▲ agustechbro a day ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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tills13 a day ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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pjmlp 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Indeed, I am just waiting for the last drop, when AI tooling becomes good enough for handling machine code directly.

Note that a lot of programming can already be done via orchestration flows calling into mcp tools (replacing classical microservices).

All the no code/low code tools have migrated into it as their evolution.

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bigmadshoe a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Absolutely. These things are inherently pointless - what makes them cool is the human ingenuity required to achieve them. Remove that and it’s totally uninteresting.

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sublinear a day ago | parent | prev [-]

That feeling has nothing to do with AI. That's how art has always been. Most of these were bad at being art even before AI.

A good reference for exactly what I mean would be the demoscene (both back then and now). You can watch a thousand of those and be totally underwhelmed, but every now and then you get one that totally blows your mind.

There's nothing wrong with seeking novelty, but there is something wrong being jaded about it.

	▲	Moosdijk a day ago \| parent [-]
		Who are you replying to?

▲ laszlokorte a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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]

  SELECT project(...) as x, project(...) as y 
  FROM model, vertex, camera, transform 
  WHERE clockwise AND clipped IN BETWEEN -1 AND 1

[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/sql3d/

▲ cma256 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	nickpeterson a day ago \| parent [-]
		SQL in SQL has never occurred to me.

▲ mmmlinux a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love all the "But Why?!?" and "It's LLM so it doesn't count" comments.

▲ Jgoauh a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nice, but why ?

	▲	jareklupinski a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		sir... this is hacker news
	▲	__alexs a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Good stress test for your SQL parser I guess.
	▲	srean a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		To know that it can be done.

▲ JSR_FDED a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How do I join this awesome project?

▲ mghackerlady a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Look, I love a good hack, but just. No. Why would you ever want to do this. The intersection of skill and masochism needed for this shouldn't exist and yet it does

▲ dileeppandiya a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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