miniLibX

Yesterday I did all three evaluations and completed ft_printf. It was a big project and my first milestone in 42: It was the first time I felt properly challenged and out of my comfort zone.

I installed the official 42 VM, which we use on all our projects from here on out. It was way easier than I thought it would be. I’m not gonna use it for development since I run Ubuntu on my machine and the packages are completely compatible; I’m just gonna use it for tests and evaluations.

I also started researching my next project: miniRT. It’s a ray tracer in C that renders spheres, plans, squares, cylinders and triangles with different light sources and camera positions.

It uses a window API developed by 42paris called miniLibX. I installed it on my machine and on the official VM, and messed around with it for a while.

I’m studying its unofficial documentation made by 42 CODAM students, and I’m already doing some basic things with it.

Today I’m gonna take some time off to celebrate this last victory, then do a few things:

I’m gonna add printf and get_next_line to my libft, and refactor it with the new techniques I’ve learned. I’m separating the source files, the objects, the headers and the .a libraries in different folders so it’s more organized.

I’m also creating a C project template based on this one by @dutenrapha. He created a really good default structure that helped me organize my ft_printf.

As for the miniRT, I’m gonna start by implementing a random walker using miniLibX and move on to other basic demo projects. There’s a bunch of coding challenges from the Coding Train that’ll help me get familiar with both miniLibX and math.h, which I’ll use extensively in the project.