Index of /vectrex/draw3d

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      c2s.c                   2025-06-06 10:14   14K  
      demo-model.h            2025-06-06 10:14  2.5K  
      jenny.c                 2025-06-06 10:14   11K  
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      types.h                 2025-06-06 10:14  3.1K  

This is a 'work in progress' experiment to handle 3D perspective projection
using lookup tables rather than calculations.  "jenny.c" is the generator,
and "percy.c" does the in-game perspective projection.  This code currently
runs on Linux, I have not yet tested it on the Vectrex.

"c2s.c" converts from cartesian coordinates to spherical coordinates and back
again, and the Vectrex implementation will use fast 8-bit lookup tables for the
sin & cos functions.  These tables are expected to use no more than 128 bytes.
Using spherical coordinates allows us to rotate 3D models around two axes
very cheaply - the cost is a single 8-bit addition per axis.

Both the perspective code and the spherical coordinate code cause some
inaccuracies in the eventual model -> screen pipeline, but so far the
maximum inaccuracy is bounded (10 Vectrex coordinate points with the mode
being 4 and the majority of errors being 6 points or fewer) which should
be acceptable for games with fast-moving 3D objects.  Experiments to test
this are coming soon, and hopefully accompanied by code with tighter
constraints on the errors.

I thought I'd put what I've done so far online for the programmers in the
Vectrex forums to have a look at and maybe offer some suggestions as to the
way to go about things - whether what I've done so far makes sense and what
I should do next.