README.md

raytracer

A basic ray tracer with Phong Illumination. I originally made this for CS488, Intro to Computer Graphics, at the University of Waterloo.

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Build

$ cd raytracer
raytracer$ premake4 gmake
raytracer$ make
raytracer$ cd src
raytracer/src$ premake4 gmake
raytracer/src$ make

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TODO

(in no particular order)

• rewrite from scratch
• reflections
• textures
• meshes, spheres, cubes
• hierarchical modelling
• bounding boxes, optimizations
• distribution ray tracing
• path tracing
• photon mapping

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Dependencies

• OpenGL 3.2+
• GLFW
  • http://www.glfw.org/
• Lua
  • http://www.lua.org/
• Premake4
  • https://github.com/premake/premake-4.x/wiki
  • http://premake.github.io/download.html
• GLM
  • http://glm.g-truc.net/0.9.7/index.html
• ImGui
  • https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

This build is only tested on Linux, but should theoretically also work for OSX.