Take a trip back in time and watch me attempt to build a 3D graphics engine in AppleSoft BASIC on a restored Apple II+ computer! Can I render a spinning cube? Code: https://thecodingtrain.com/challenges...

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AppleSoft BASIC:
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Timestamps:
0:00 The future of computer graphics!
0:39 Viewer comments
1:58 Editing code in BASIC
3:28 Floppy Emu disk emulator
5:09 Double buffered animation
6:55 Initialize high resolution graphics for 2 pages
7:42 Animating a line
8:50 CALL to clear the screen
9:22 Switching screens
13:18 The "draw loop"
14:55 Rotate a line
15:45 Add points
16:36 Add a subroutine that draws a line between two points
17:55 Scaling the line
20:55 Matrix Multiplication for Rotation
29:26 Animate rotation
32:00 Clear background
33:17 Subroutine to add the points of a cube
35:40 Subroutine to draw the lines
36:46 Incorporating matrix math.
40:24 Edit code to add more points
41:46 Connect the points to draw a cube
43:03 Beautiful, 3D rotating cube!!
43:17 x-axis rotation
43:52 Ways to optimize the code
44:42 Can you add perspective projection?
45:08 See you next time on Coding Together!

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