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Building an ASCII 3D Renderer

Building a small rendering pipeline reveals the boundaries of 3D graphics more clearly than starting with a graphics API.

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Building an ASCII 3D Renderer
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Overview

Build an ASCII 3D renderer from coordinate transforms, projection, rasterization, and shading.

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