Ray Tracer
A ray tracer made in C++ to learn about math, data structures, algorithms and of course ray tracing. It uses SFML to display the output. The math library is made by hand. Features Primitive shapes. Hard/soft shadows. Roughness. Phong shading. Reflection and refraction. (Prototype) sphere based acceleration structure. Directional and point lights. Project Details For this assignment we had to create our own math library and then build a ray tracer using it. The base course was focused on getting a basic understanding about ray tracing, light, math and optimizations. The extra course I followed was about path tracing, low level optimizations and building towards a real-time ray/path tracer. Continue reading