Ray Tracer

Introduction

This simple ray tracer is implemented in C++, following the tutorial from Ray Tracing in One Weekend as well as Ray Tracing the Next Week from raytracing.github.io. All books are free and open source. The aim of the project is to build a simple ray tracer from the ground up, while trying implementing some common-used techniques in the field of rendering. It also serves as a playground for experimenting with other rendering algorithms.

Features

Materials

• Lambertian
• Metal
• Dielectric
• Diffuse light: acting as light source
• Isotropic

Textures

• Constant texture
• Checker texture
• Image texture
• Noise texture: using perlin noise

Acceleration Structures

• Bounding Volume Hierachy (BVH)
• K-D Tree (WIP)

Integrators

• Monte Carlo Integrators