Ray Tracer in 506 bytes (x86 boot sector)

nanochess · 10K views · 2024 · 1:00

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A ray tracer written in x86 assembly that fits in a 506-byte boot sector and runs on real hardware.

Linked by 2 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ycombinator.com, tomshardware.com.