Made by Gabriel Kulp as a personal side project through 2018 and 2019.
First, you'll need something UNIX-like with a C compiler (gcc by default, optionally clang or tcc), the tput command, make, and optionally valgrind. This probably limits you to some flavor of Linux or BSD.
To compile and run, type make run. Press ctrl+c to exit. You can also see line count statistics with make stats, delete build files with make clean, and check for memory leaks with make mem (assuming you have valgrind installed).
If you want to try some other compiler, change line 1 of the Makefile. On my system, running gcc with -O3 (possibly-standards-breaking optimizations) does not break anything. If you see memory leaks or any other issues, feel free to change line 4 of the Makefile to use -O2 or -O1 to prevent these issues.
- Import standard 3D model formats like STL
- Limit the framerate so small terminals don't run faster
- Optimize flushing buffers so it doesn't take so many IO operations
- Add some easy way to read keys to allow interactiveness
- Add structs for a scene hierarchy with multiple objects
- Abstract coordinates one more time to allow moving the camera