Real-time ASCII rendering in Javascript - Ray Tracing (part 2)

UPDATE: Here is the demo of the current build.  If you want to contribute to the project, it’s all hosted on github

Stepping things up a notch.  I managed to get real-time raytracing working at an acceptable framerate (with ASCII rendering of course).  Play with the demo.  

I’m not able to get Chrome and FF to render <pre>’s the same way yet.  At the time of writing the demo looks better in FF than Chrome, but it screams in Chrome without any threading. Some credit goes to the author of JayTracer, a canvas-based renderer.  I took quite a bit of core code and built upon it, adding optimizations where I saw fit.  If anyone wants to further optimize this go ahead.

Real-time ASCII rendering in Javascript (part 1)

As I approach my high-20s birthday I’m feeling nostalgic for the demo coding days of my youth.  I was never on the level of FC but managed some real time fire demos, plasma, bump mapping etc.

I was playing around with ASCII rendering to a <pre> block and it’s fast enough in modern browsers to pull off a reasonably high resolution fractal zoomer:  Demo here.