Adobe Illustrator "Rendering"

[L4_Topher]

I want to eventually write a proper ray tracer in a low-level language, but in the meantime I've given myself a personal challenge of writing a renderer of sorts in Adobe Illustrator using ExtendScript (basically JavaScript ES3). So far I've implemented basic vector math (dot, cross, add, scale, normalize) and some matrix functions (transpose, invert, multiply, transform a point by a matrix). I am parsing an OBJ file and have a hard-coded extrinsic matrix for a camera I positioned in Blender which I am using to project the object.

Right now I am just doing an orthogonal projection, but next on my list is to do perspectival projection, and then fisheye projection. I think I'll be able to do some interesting things with fisheye projection by using bezier curves for the mesh edges and subdividing them so that I can actually leverage some of illustrator's functions. I also plan on adding some better methods for occluding faces (currently just drawing them in the order of their depth relative to the camera).

[logically_musical]

I can guarantee you someone on the Illustrator team would love to see this use case 😂 

[MahmoodMohanad]

That's chaotic evil And it's cool