Post by citizen428 on Dec 20, 2019 18:00:41 GMT
First off, thanks for the great book Jamis, it's really a lot of fun working through it :-)
I'm doing my implementation in F#, and only got through the first two chapters so far. Still, the code might be interesting for people who want to see how to approach this in a functional language:
This is an interesting side project for me for several reasons:
* It's my first bigger F# project, so far I mostly did smaller coding challenges, puzzles, small bug fixes etc.
* This is also my first real .NET project in general. I generally work on Linux/Mac, but this year I got into F# via .NET Core and am quite enjoying it.
* I previously dabbled with a ray tracer in OCaml, and want to see how F# compares.
The only real tip I have so far is that the built-in Array2D type was very helpful in implementing the canvas. I also opted for keeping points and vectors as separate types. The benefits this provides via the type system (only allowing the correct overload for math operations for example. so you can't e.g. multiply 2 points) outweigh the minor code duplication in my opinion. I'll keep updating this thread as I work through the book.
