Raytracer

An attempt at making a ray tracer. Based on Ray Tracing in One Weekend.

Final Render

Progress

• Output an image (PPM)
• Implement progress indicator
• Implement basic vector class
• Implement basic ray class
• Implement basic camera, viewport and background
• Implement a build solution (make)
• Ray-Sphere intersection
• Surface normals and multiple objects
• Antialiasing
• Diffuse materials
• Metal
• Dielectrics
• Positionable Camera
• Defocus Blur
• Final Render
• Multithreading

Next:

• Ray Tracing the Next Week
• Ray Tracing the Rest of Your Life

Prerequisites

• make
• clang++
• PPM viewer

Usage

Make

Use make <debug|release> to build debug or release builds. make or make render will also output the rendered image.

$ cd IOW_RayTracer
$ make <debug|release|render|remake|clean>