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Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 months agoyou were right, the computers couldnt do the math in time. the trick was to precalculate the sin/cos tables for angle steps into tons of lookups instead.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It wasn’t just the trig tables, but realtime raycasting altogether felt like sorcery.