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		codesushi42 on Sept 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quaternions: the Strange Numbers That Birthed Mode... You will need more than quaternions to get a rotating cube working without OpenGL. You would need some kind of basic lighting for this to work. If you really want to build a 3d engine from scratch without OpenGL, I suggest checking this book out. It was written in the mid 90s and explains how to write a simple 3d engine in DOS. https://archive.org/details/BlackArt3DEBook

codesushi42 on Sept 8, 2018 [–]

Well, I suppose you could create a wireframed cube without any lighting...

But the above material is much more interesting.

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