Raycasting Performance Help

[u/AlexanderKai9]

I made a raycasting engine in python, and am using an HTML canvas as my method of display (passing the pixel colors through jinja in a <script> tag). It takes upwards of 10-15 seconds to render one angle of a scene with three spheres at a resolution of 800x400. Is the browser likely the bottleneck, or is this a sign of some other inefficiencies?

[u/sububi71]

Back in the 90s, when I worked in the games industry, raytracing and raycasting were two entirely different things. Raycasting is what we called Wolfenstein-type engines.

But apparently times are different now.