Last time the space station rendered as one flat white shape. This time I give it a light and shade every face, and on the way there the cross product and the dot product finally made sense to me. Still nothing but school math, still ThorVG doing the drawing.
I stayed away from computer graphics for years because of the math I thought it requires. Then one video showed me it was school trigonometry all along. So I projected a space station onto a 2D canvas and let ThorVG's new web canvas API draw the faces.
A web engineer's case for relearning computers from the ground up, and why understanding the machine matters more, not less, now that AI writes the code.