Simple RayTracer

Project Overview

This is my implementation of a simple RayTracer. There is a lot of space for more features but the purpose of this project was to make my first steps in a RayTracer and to leave a base-template to create a more comple one in the future.

Features

• Movable Camera.
• MSAA (Multisampling Antialiasing).
• Materials: Dielectric, Diffuse and Metal.
• Surface: Sphere.
• Depth of Field.
• Output file format: PPM.
• All the parameters of the features can be changed in the config.h file.

Preview of the Features

• Movable Camera

• MSAA

Left image without MSAA - Right image with MSAA (# of samples = 100)

• Diffuse Material

• Dielectric Material

• Metal Material

• DoF

VFO: 30, ApertureSize: 0.3

Environment

• Linux.
• C++17
• GLM

Prerequisites

• g++
• CMake >= 3.9.1

Documentation

• https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html
• https://viclw17.github.io/writing.html

How to run it

$ git clone https://github.com/SaferGo/Simple-Ray-Tracer.git
$ cd Simple-Ray-Tracer
$ bash run.sh
You can find the img file in the output folder.

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