Ray Casting 2D
Coding Challenge #145
In this video, I implement a basic ray casting engine with line segment “surfaces” and vector “rays.” The result simulates a light source casting shadows in a 2D canvas.
Community Contributions
- Colorful raycasting by Jip Fr
- Raycasting 2D visualisation by Vedang Javdekar (Source Code)
- Ray Casting - Object's sensors by Dan Juliette (Source Code)
- Ray Casting - Lighting rooms with paper walls by John 'JohnyDL' Lewis (Source Code)
- Reflections [Processing] by WiserOrb (Source Code)
- Reduced Fisheye Ray Casting by Nicholas Simon-Brecke (Source Code)
- Example with Addable/Removable Boundaries by Simon Tiger Houben (Source Code)
- Ray Casting 2D in Processing by David Snyder (Source Code)
- Raycasting Maze explorer (made in vb.net) by Jos Gielen (Source Code)
- Colorful SVG Ray Casters by Neoman Nouiouat (Source Code)
- Wolfenstein 3D style raycasting with randomly generated mazes (p5.js) by Ben (quillaja) (Source Code)
- drawing walls by Hauman Kevin
- Ray Casting Maze by Sébastien Raynaud (Source Code)
- Example with Optimization by Simon Tiger Houben (Source Code)
- Minor optimisation ray.js to better suit math being done by Damien Porter (Source Code)
- FLASHY the flashlight game by Nick 'Milchreis' Müller (Source Code)
- Super Optimized 2D Raycasting by M M (Source Code)
- Ray, The Self Driving Robot by Matheus Souza (Source Code)
- 2D cave Exploration by David Snyder (Source Code)
- Ray casting with pygame by Nate Plamondon (Source Code)
- Ray casting with Processing by Kent Pirma (Source Code)
You can also add your own version! (See how)
Links discussed in this coding challenge
Videos discussed in this coding challenge
- Coding Adventure: Ray Marching by Sebastian Lague
- Matrix Math by Coding Train
- Coding Challenge: Rendering Ray Casting by Coding Train