The-ray-tracer++

A complete C++ rewrite of the ray tracer I wrote previously in C

Specifications

• Shapes Supported

  • Sphere
  • Triangles
  • Cubes
  • Cylinders
  • Planes

• Shading and lighting

  • triangles support normal smoothing
  • realistic dielectric support
    • refraction
    • reflection
    • schlicks approximation
    • only isolated transparent object

• Shadows

  • only sharp shadows
  • no support for smooth shadows nor antialiasing

• Acceleration Structures

  • Kd Trees

• Model Loading

  • only wavefront obj through tinyobjloader

• Running

  • CPU
    • Single thread
    • Multi-threading through OpenMP
  • GPU
    • NVIDIA-CUDA ( to be added )

Some Screenshots

Reflective Stanford Dragon

Metal Stanford Lucy Statue

Glass Stanford Bunny

Some Notes

Some objects seem to have weird pixel colors at some regions, I don't think its due to self intersection.