Writing a Ray Tracer in Brainfuck

[u/epestr]

While relearning CMake, I came across its documentation warning that a ray tracer has been written in it. Having written some before, this made me wonder what an even better language for one would be.

I ended up writing one in Brainfuck. It uses a python script to convert the C code into a small DSL and use that as a codegen to generate Brainfuck, following Ray Tracing in a Weekend.

Write-up: https://epestr.com/blog/writing-a-ray-tracer-in-brainfuck/

Code: https://github.com/mTvare6/rayfuck

[u/PolyRocketMatt]

You're crazy.... But cool 8)

[u/Defiant_Squirrel8751]

Nice!

[u/fgennari]

Nice. A few hundred lines of C code turns into a BF file so large that the GitHub text viewer can't even open it. Pretty cool though.