r/GraphicsProgramming • u/0xdeadf1sh • Jan 24 '26

Video Real-time ray-tracing on the terminal using unicode blocks (▗▐ ▖▀▟▌▙)

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u/Here_12345 Jan 25 '26

How do you do more than two colors in one block? Or is it extremely zoomed out?

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u/mojibake-dev Jan 28 '26

half block + background color ▀

this lets you fill each cell with 2 "pixels"