{"id":11605,"date":"2014-12-12T15:12:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11605"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:28:03","slug":"raytracing-on-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11605","title":{"rendered":"Raytracing on the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pasted_Image_12_7_14__8_52_PM.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11610\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pasted_Image_12_7_14__8_52_PM.jpg?resize=560%2C555&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pasted_Image_12_7_14__8_52_PM\" width=\"560\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pasted_Image_12_7_14__8_52_PM.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pasted_Image_12_7_14__8_52_PM.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pasted_Image_12_7_14__8_52_PM.jpg?resize=300%2C297&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">The Raspberry Pi isn&#8217;t exactly what you&#8217;d call a graphics processing workhorse. Craig Lindlay, however, has managed to turn it into a small raytracing platform that will generate images onto a\u00a0320&#215;240 screen from Adafruit. He calls it the &#8220;Raytracing Minion&#8221; and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigandheather.net\/celertminion.html\" target=\"_blank\">read all about how to do this kind of thing yourself over on his blog<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raspberry Pi isn&#8217;t exactly what you&#8217;d call a graphics processing workhorse. Craig Lindlay, however, has managed to turn it into a small raytracing platform that will generate images onto a\u00a0320&#215;240 screen from Adafruit. He calls it the &#8220;Raytracing Minion&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11605\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[67,49,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphics","category-software","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raytracing on the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11605\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raytracing on the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Raspberry Pi isn&#8217;t exactly what you&#8217;d call a graphics processing workhorse. 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