Ray Tracer

A ray tracer written in C++. Renders an orthographic or prespective image. Can use point lights with matte materials.

Sample Images

Left is a basic orthographic render. Right is a perspective render with shadows and a matte like material.

Goals

Impliments a simple UI interface to watch the render and a custom Ray Tracer.

To Do:

Adding in materials
Adding in meshes
Anti Aliasing
Clean up and separate header files and cpp
Add screen drawing in addition to saving the image.

BMP Function

The bmp file save function is written by Author: Arash Partow URL: http://partow.net/programming/bitmap/index.html

Requirements

Must have BOOST C++

Build

Run make command then run the executable "ray_tracer.out"