Ray Tracer

A ray tracer written in C++.

Renders an orthographic or prespective image. Can use point lights with matte materials.

Sample Images

Top left is a basic orthographic render. Top Right is a perspective render with shadows and a matte like material. Bottom left is a perspective with phong shading. Bottom right is a perspective with reflective shading.

Features

• Backward ray tracing
• Orthographic output
• Perspective output with a virtual camera
• Shadows
• Point Lights
• Ambient light
• Matte, Phong and reflective Shading

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"