Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol)
Details
- External ID
- 49141642
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol)
- Website domain
- andreadimatteo.com
- Launched
- Aug. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 24
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7815860215053764
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Hi HN,I'm taking Computer Graphics @ Stanford this summer and wanted to express some very simple concepts I had in mind. That's why I wrote a rotating torus in C. Going from writing a ray-tracer that works in Blender to pure C with no dependencies feels relaxing. Wanted to try Kitty Graphics Protocol on the way, rendering images in terminal felt cool.Open to comments and suggestions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- rotating torus visualization for terminal
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Rendering a rotating 3D torus in terminal output using the Kitty graphics protocol is a small, standalone C or Python math demo utilizing basic 3D projection and base64 image chunking.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Non-standard header file (_time.h) causes compilation issues
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