That’s it - I am going to do it! I am going to become a coder, I used to know BASIC programming, how much harder can this be? And I am going to learn all about Light Transport and the physics and equations of it all! I am thinking by Corona 30 I should be ready to set to work on this caustics problem! Look out world… which reminds me, I can start with a “Hello world” program to get ready for it all!
If I recall correctly, on the C64 all you need to do it enable the magic switch: ‘poke 53280,5’ and then create a loop for sampling…
From the top of my head:
10 poke 53280,5 (that’s the important part)
20 for i=0 to 100
30 print i
40 goto 20
That should do it. Also, it’s really fast.
On a serious note, I’m still a bit puzzled that all the ‘caustics don’t work’ talk is based on a picture of a golden Jesus statue in a pool.