DNA 3D Engine
Yaroslav Sergienko,
GitHub,
Dec 07, 2020
I want to break away from online learning briefly to show you something wild - a raytracer implemented in DNA - "most advanced and compact 3d engine ever implemented in DNA code." A raytracer is a drawing application that creates images by simulating how light ways interact with objects. With this DNA raytracer, you're actually using a real light source to create the rays. Here is the deployment as summarized by O'Reilly: "(1) Synthesize the oligonucleotides from the cube3d.dna file. (2) Arrange the test tubes as shown in the diagram below. (3) Don't forget to provide the initial concentrations according to the table below. (4) Use a pipette to encode the position (row and column) of each tube to start the computation." The author warns, "perhaps it would not be a good idea to try this experiment in a real lab, because it will cost you a lot of money and most likely won't work as intended the first time."
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