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Life & fun · November 24, 2017

Super-Sunshine – A ray-tracer written from scratch in C++

A ray-tracer with a simple scene description language for easily generating beautiful images. - diegomacario/Super-Sunshine

Super-Sunshine – A ray-tracer written from scratch in C++ launched on November 24, 2017 with 6 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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